%0 Electronic Article %A Bieder, Robert E. %I Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen %D 2010 %D 2010 %G English %@ 1218-7364 %~ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstbibliothek %T The Unmaking of a Gentleman: George Johnston and a Mixed-blood Dilemma %V 16 %J Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) %V 16 %N 1/2 %P 125-135 %U https://www.jstor.org/stable/43921757 %X

George Johnston, a mixed-blood born in 1800, was not typical of the majority of mixed-bloods on the Michigan frontier. As a member of one of the most distinguished families in Sault Ste. Marie, George was a man of some importance. His father was an Irish gentleman fur trader and his mother a daughter of a local Ojibwa band chief. George and his siblings received excellent educations for that place and time. George considered himself a gentleman far above the many white voyagers, other mixed-bloods, and definitely the Indians. In the 1820s George's world fell apart and he died in penury in 1874. This paper details the strange turn of events that brought about his downfall and also poses the question of whether his curious death was by accident or design.

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