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> If what Schoolcraft wrote has “little foundation in fact” then I happily
> submit to later and more authoritative research.
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Schoolcraft's work is accurate, as far as I know. What threw me off was your
attribution to "tribes to the north", as I know of no references to Native
American women mining in the states to the north of Arizona (which is not to
say that they didn't - it might not have been recorded). From where I sit in
Arizona, the regions that Schoolcraft was discussing - Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan - are some 1800 miles north-east!
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