Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

The first Native American poet to write in English, as well as the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was born on January 31, 1800, in Sault Ste. Marie, now Michigan.

Invocation

by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–42)

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To my Maternal Grand-father on hearing his descent from Chippewa ancestors misrepresented

Rise bravest chief! of the mark of the noble deer,

With eagle glance,

Resume thy lance,

And wield again thy warlike spear!

The foes of thy line,

With coward design,

Have dared with black envy to garble the truth,

And stain with a falsehood thy valorous youth.

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