Jane Schoolcraft Research Paper

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While reading about Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, I actually really found her and her works to be very interesting. The introduction was really neat and I was able to learn lots about her. I found it very interesting that Jane Schoolcraft was the first native american writer and she wrote many poems and short fictional stories throughout her life. I also enjoyed learning about her education as a women during this time. Jane Schoolcraft educated herself from the library around where she was, and I found this super exciting.
Jane Schoolcraft married Henry Schoolcraft in 1823 and even though her husband believed that Women were not equal to Men, he was a lot of her motivation for her works of literature. Many of Jane Schoolcraft’s poems and literature

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