George Copway
George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, "The one who stands safe", * 1818 , † 1869 ) was an Indian-Canadian writer from the Anishinabe tribe . In the middle of the 19th century he toured Europe. After Copway was the official representative of the Christianized North American natives at the international peace congress in Frankfurt a. M. had spoken, he traveled in 1850 to Dusseldorf to here with Ferdinand Freiligrath to meet and take over the sponsorship for his son Otto. On this occasion, the German-American painter Emanuel Leutze portrayed him in his idealizing picture The Last of the Mohicans .
Works
- The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), connects Copway's personal ascension story with tribal history
- The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibwa Nation (1850) represents the tribal history
- Cobways American Indian (magazine, 1851)
- Running Sketches of Men and Places in England, France, Germany, Belgium and Scotland (travel report, 1851)
- The Ojibway Conquest (1850), first volume of poetry by an Indian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Schroyen: "A true brotherhood seems to reign among them." - The artists' association Malkasten and its international members . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Vol. 1, pp. 277, 279, fn. 33
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Copway, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Native American Canadian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1818 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1869 |