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James Mooney

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Born: February 09 1861

Died: 2121 12 19211921

James Mooney was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull's death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups, and the Cherokee: The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees , and Myths of the Cherokee , all published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology. Artifacts from Mooney are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History. Papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

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James Mooney

James Mooney

Books from James Mooney

History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Myths of the Cherokee

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee

Miyelo

The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government ... Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398

الصخرة الناطقة، الحكايات الشعبية لقبيلة الشيروكي

Cherokee History, Myths and Sacred Formulas

The Swimmer manuscript : Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions

Native American Ways: Four Paths to Enlightenment

Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection): History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, ... Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029

Native American Tales: A Collection of Native American Folk Tales

The Sickening (and Strange) History of Medicine: An Anthology

The Medical Mythology of Ireland

Native American Legends, Folktales, & Myths: Stories from the Algonquin, Apache, Blackfoot, Cree, Cherokee, Dakota, Iroquois, Sioux, Pawnee, Eskimo, Zuni, and more . . . (Tenebray Press Book 14)

Myths of the Cherokee: The Legends and History of the Cherokee Native American Tribe (Annotated)

Cherokees Shamanism

Myths of the Cherokee: Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

The Cherokee Ball Play, and Remarks on Ojibwa Ball Play