BLACKBIRD, Andrew Jackson (ca 1810-1900) History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: A Grammar of their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author. Ypsilanti, Michigan: The Ypsilantian Job Printing House, 1887. 8vo (168 x 126 mm). Contemporary cloth by Arthur H. Clark Co. of Cleveland with his ticket (hinges broken, tape repairs, some minor bubbling). FIRST EDITION of Blackbird's personal and family history, including 22pp. of vocabulary and grammar. Blackbird, son of an Ottawa chief, was named Mack-aw-de-be-nessy, or Black Hawk.