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Kah‐Ge‐Ga‐Gah‐Bowh, Chief (George Copway)

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Kah‐Ge‐Ga‐Gah‐Bowh, Chief [George Copway] (1818–63), writer. An Ojibway chief born in Canada and educated in Illinois, Copway became a highly respected writer and a friend of Longfellow's. His works include The Life, Letters, and Speeches of Chief Kah‐ge‐ga‐gah‐bowh (1850); The Ojibway Conquest, a Tale of the Northwest (1850), an epic‐length poem; and Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe (1851).

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Copway, George

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Copway, George (1818–C. 1863), Ojibway chief, became a Wesleyan missionary, and wrote several volumes of reminiscences and Indian history, including Life, History, and Travels (1847), Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation (1850), and a poem, The Ojibway Conquest (1850). His style is said by The Dictionary of American Biography to be “an amalgam of Washington Irving, St. Luke, and elements derived from Methodist exhorters.”

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