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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The World and Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft | |
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| The Cultural World of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft | |
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| The Personal World | |
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| The Literary Writings: Poetry, Stories, Translations | |
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| The Final Years | |
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| The Literary Legacy | |
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| Notes to Introduction | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| WRITINGS | |
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| To the Pine Tree on first seeing it on returning from Europe | |
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| To the Miscodeed | |
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| Lines written at Castle Island, Lake Superior | |
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| On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior: To a Friend | |
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| "My humble present is a purse" | |
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| Invocation, To my Maternal Grand-father on hearing his descent from Chippewa ancestors misrepresented | |
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| Invocation to my Maternal Grandfather, Wabojeeg [shorter draft] | |
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| Invocation to my Maternal Grandfather, Wabojeeg [longer draft] | |
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| To a Bird, Seen Under My Window in the Garden | |
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| Lines to a Friend Asleep | |
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| By an Ojibwa FemalePen, Invitation to sisters to a walk in the Garden, after a shower | |
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| Pensive Hours | |
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| (Pensive Lines) | |
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| The Contrast, a Splenetic Effusion. March, 1823— | |
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| The Contrast | |
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| On Henry's Birthday | |
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| Absence | |
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| Nindahwaymau | |
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| Neezhicka | |
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| Neenawbame | |
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| Ningwisis | |
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| "Amid the still retreat of Elmwood's shade" | |
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| Resignation [1] | |
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| Resignation [2] | |
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| Lines written under affliction | |
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| Relief | |
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| A Metrical Jeu d'esprit, designed as an invitation to a whist party | |
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| Response | |
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| Elegy, On the death of my Son William Henry, at St. Mary's | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| To my ever lamented and beloved son William Henry | |
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| Sweet Willy | |
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| Lines Written under severe Pain and Sickness | |
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| On leaving my children John and Jane at School, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior | |
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| Free translation by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft | |
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| New translation by Dennis Jones, Heidi Stark, and James Vukelich | |
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| An answer, to a remonstrance on my being melancholy, by a Gentleman, who, sometimeshad a little pleasingtouch of melancholy himself | |
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| Language Divine! | |
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| "As watchful spirits in the night" | |
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| On Meditation | |
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| "Welcome, welcome to my arms" | |
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| A Psalm, or Supplication for mercy, and confession of Sin, addressed to the Author of Life, in the Odjibway-Algonquin tongue | |
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| On reading Miss Hannah Moore's Christian morals and Practical Piety. 1816 | |
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| Stanzas | |
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| "My heart is gone with him afar" | |
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| Acrostic | |
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| My Ear-rings | |
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| When the Stormy Winds Do Blow, After Thomas Campbell | |
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| Elegy on the death of my aunt Mrs Kearny of Kilgobbin Glebe Dublin, Ireland | |
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| Spirit of Peace | |
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| "Let prayer alone our thoughts engage" | |
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| The Origin of the Robin | |
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| Moowis, The Indian Coquette | |
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| Mishösha, or the Magician and his daughters: A Chippewa Tale or Legend | |
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| The Forsaken Brother: A Chippewa Tale | |
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| Origin of the Miscodeed, or the Maid of Taquimenon | |
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| Corn story (or the origin of corn) | |
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| The Three Cranberries | |
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| The Little Spirit, or Boy-Man: An Odjibwa Tale | |
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| Waish-kee, alias Iawba Wadick | |
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| La Renne | |
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| Peboan and Seegwun (Winter and Spring): A Chippewa Allegory | |
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| The O-jib-way Maid | |
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| Song for a Lover Killed in Battle | |
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| Two Songs | |
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| A mother's lament for the absence of a child | |
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| "Naw! nin daun, nin dau niss ance" | |
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| "Oh my daughter—my little daughter" | |
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| "My lover is tall and handsome" | |
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| "High heav'd my breast" | |
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| Song of the Okogis, or Frog in Spring | |
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| "Kaugig ahnahmeauwin/Ever let piety" | |
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| Character of Aboriginal Historical Tradition: To the Editor of the Muzzinyegun | |
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| Dying Speech | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Sources and Editorial Procedures | |
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| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, "An Introduction to the Poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft" | |
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| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, "Dawn of Literary Composition by Educated Natives of the aboriginal tribes" | |
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| Misattributions and Potential Misattributions | |
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| List of Less Substantive Variants | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |