MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1826
Abstract:
The Sketches of a Tour of the Lakes, of the character & customs of the Chippeway Indians & of incidents connected with the treaty of Fond du Lac... to which is super added a vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway language... is a record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes, and more memorably, a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827.
Call #:
Mss.917.7.M19
Extent:
3 volume(s)
Subjects:
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Art | Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 | Government Affairs | Great Lakes -- Description and travel | Indians of North America -- Great Lakes (North America) | Indians of North America -- Treaties | Landscapes | Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | Michigan -- Description and travel | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa language -- Dictionaries -- English | Portraits | Sketchbooks | Travel Narratives and Journals | Watercolors | Wisconsin -- Description and travel