Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day with the Words of Native American Poets

This poem by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) is one of nearly a dozen by Native American poets featured throughout TeachRock’s acclaimed lesson collection, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World. Regarded as the first known Native American woman writer in the U.S., Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the daughter of an Ojibwe mother and Scots-Irish father. Her poem, “On Leaving My Children ...

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