{"id":27619,"date":"2017-09-14T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.125\/~barbass7\/bfn\/?p=27619"},"modified":"2017-09-14T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T07:01:35","slug":"culturally-deprived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/culturally-deprived\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Culturally Deprived Kid: My Teachers Never Told Me About the Ojibwe Poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27620\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/09\/14\/culturally-deprived\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/09\/14\/culturally-deprived\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27620\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/eagle-top-road-to-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"Culturally deprived because though I loved this Michigan woodland, I was never introduced as a child to the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who celebrated Michigan's nature. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We shared a love of the Michigan woods &#8212; pine, oak and birch. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/05\/22\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-jane-johnston-schoolcraft-and-the-native-american-i-wanted-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Jane Johnston Schoolcraft &#8212; A Native American Poet, Lost and Found<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I loved the Michigan woods as a girl growing up in the 1940s and &#8217;50s. And so did the Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. She was born in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula in the nineteenth century; I was born in the Lower Peninsula in the twentieth. Too bad my Detroit schoolteachers never introduced me <!--more-->to Schoolcraft&#8217;s stories and poetry. I&#8217;d have found her a kindred spirit. Was I &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/revisesociology.com\/2014\/02\/15\/the-effect-of-cultural-deprivation-on-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culturally deprived<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on that question and more about this long-forgotten poet and her rediscovery at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2009\/05\/22\/a-case-of-the-human-condition-jane-johnston-schoolcraft-and-the-native-american-i-wanted-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and the Indian I Wanted to Be.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_14910\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/09\/14\/culturally-deprived\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14910\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/eagle-top-road-to-580x326-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"Culturally deprived because though I loved this Michigan woodland, I was never introduced as a child to the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, who celebrated Michigan's nature. Photo by Barbara Newhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a> We shared a love of the Michigan woods &#8212; pine, oak and birch. Photo by Barbara Newhall[\/caption]\n<p>This Ojibwe poet would have been dear to my girlish Michigan heart. Why didn\u2019t my Detroit schoolteachers ever mention her? Was I culturally deprived? <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2017\/09\/14\/culturally-deprived\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1145,2013,209,1148,2014,212,213,214,216,1196,88,217,1459,2015,1207],"class_list":["post-27619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-1940s","tag-1950s","tag-culturally-deprived","tag-detroit","tag-education","tag-jane-johnston-schoolcraft","tag-jane-schoolcraft-poems","tag-michigan","tag-native-american-poetry","tag-native-americans","tag-nature","tag-ojibwe","tag-poetry","tag-upper-peninsula","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}