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John Muir's Tribal Education
Though John Muir was first frightened by starving Indians during his boyhood in Wisconsin, he grew to appreciate them in the California Sierra and even more so in Alaska.
Henry David Thoreau as Cultural Anthropologist
Henry D. Thoreau became a student of Native American cultures as seen in his Indian Notebooks and in his visits to Maine where he met and befriended Penobscot Indians.