Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s.
Photo of Henry Schoolcraft in 1855
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1884 engraving
Portrait of Schoolcraft at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the government.
Bust of Benjamin Hawkins