 While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime (except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as "the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.In 2008 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.The county was set off in 1840, and organized in 1863.