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Schoolcraft

American  
[skool-kraft, -krahft] / ˈskulˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft /

noun

  1. Henry Rowe 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.


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James Schoolcraft Sherman, the man for whom it was named, was a Republican congressman from New York state, and for three years vice president to William Howard Taft.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024

The lawsuit names as defendants Vancouver Police Department officers Dennis Devlin, Colton Price and Branden Schoolcraft, and Department of Correction officer Rees Campbell, along with their respective agencies.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Mr. Schoolcraft, 29, makes a solid living as a builder, but most major employers have fled this mythical region, known as the Northeast Kingdom, whose counties are now the most impoverished in the state.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022

His contemporary, geographer and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, called it “dental pictography.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

The descriptions are rather vague, and the lodges encountered by Schoolcraft may have been similar in form to that shown in plate 19.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

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