14 Facts About Andrew Blackbird

Andrew Blackbird was author of the 1887 book, History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan.

Andrew Blackbird was baptized a Roman Catholic by a priest called Father Baden in 1825, but later converted to Protestantism.

Andrew Blackbird served as interpreter at the Protestant mission in L'Arbre Croche.

Andrew Blackbird was trained as a blacksmith at mission schools in the L'Arbre Croche area.

Andrew Blackbird studied for four years at Twinsburg Institute in Twinsburg in Summit County, Ohio, but left without graduating.

In June 1858 Andrew Blackbird wrote his Twinsburg Institute mentor Rev Samuel Bissell:.

Andrew Blackbird was loyal to the United States during various uprisings.

In 1858 Andrew Blackbird married Elizabeth Margaret Fish, a white woman of English descent.

Andrew Blackbird helped veterans of the United States who were Native Americans receive their pensions.

In 1858, Andrew Blackbird bought a house in Harbor Springs, Michigan, and settled there permanently.

Andrew Blackbird became the town's postmaster, having been appointed by his friend Senator Thomas Ferry chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.

In 1887, Andrew Blackbird published his History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan.

Andrew Blackbird explains many of the traditional beliefs and cultural practices of the two tribes.

The Andrew J Blackbird House in Harbor Springs, Michigan, is a museum of American Indian artifacts presented in the house in which Blackbird lived from 1858 until his death in 1908.