Andrew Blackbird
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Article abstract: The son of an Ottawa chief, Andrew Blackbird wrote a history of the Ottawa and Chippewa peoples and a grammar of their language and served as a government interpreter.
Andrew Blackbird grew up in a family of Ottawa chiefs on the northwest shore of Michigan's lower peninsula. He journeyed to Ohio for education among whites. He was raised as a Roman Catholic but converted to Protestantism. In 1861 he was appointed to the post of interpreter for the federal government and held that position into the 1870's. After the Civil War, he looked after...
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