Johann Georg Kohl, a German scholar -- we would now call him an ethnologist -- traveled among the Ojibawa of the Lake Superior region in the mid-1850s. He wrote a detailed set of his observations, not nearly so filled with deprecating comments about "savages" and "primative" people as his contemporaries.

I enjoyed it. Full title: Kitchi-Gami: Life Among the Lake Superior Ojibway. Republished by the Minnesota Historical Society, 1985.