Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), January 25, 1845, vol. 1, no. 4, p. ??

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ONEÓTA, or the Red Race of America — their History, Tradition, Customs, Poetry, Picture-Writing, &c., in Extracts from Notes, Journals, and other unpublished writings, by Henry R. Schoolcraft. Nos. 1 to 4. Burgess, Stringer & Co. Price 25 cents.

The first time that we saw Mr. Schoolcraft personally, was at Michilimackinac, surrounded by a company of noble looking fellows, of the race whose history is so fully elucidated in the work before us. His name is so familiarly connected with Indian tradition and customs, that any work on these subjects, bearing his name, must meet with a favorable reception from his countrymen. Oneóta is a work of very miscellaneous character, but all its miscellanies tend to the elucidation of one subject. It is well printed and properly illustrated, not with unmeaning pictures of effeminate looking Indians, in fancy costumes, but with actual transcripts of their picture-writing — which prove one thing very clearly — that ART, in her first rugged attempts at delineating nature, and in her last effeminate endeavor at the same object, stands at about the same distance from the object aimed at. There is abundant reading in these numbers for the mere idler in literature, as well as for the student in Ethnology and Archæology.