This Ojibwe poet would have been dear to my girlish Michigan heart. Why didn’t my Detroit schoolteachers ever mention her? Was I culturally deprived? Read more.
I Was a Culturally Deprived Kid: My Teachers Never Told Me About the Ojibwe Poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
[caption id="attachment_14910" align="aligncenter" width="500"] We shared a love of the Michigan woods — pine, oak and birch. Photo by Barbara Newhall[/caption]