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James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee
Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
. He was born at Richmond
Richmond, Indiana

Richmond is a city in Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana, Wayne County, Indiana, in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. The city also includes the Richmond Municipal Airport in Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana which is separated from the rest of the city....
, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
. In 1885 he became connected with the Bureau of American Ethnology
Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution....
 at Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 under John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was a United States soldier, geology, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, a three-month river trip down the Green River and Colorado River rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon....
. He compiled a tribal list containing 3,000 titles. His most notable work was his ethnographic study
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 of the Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance

Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Indigenous peoples of the Americas belief systems....
, a widespread religious movement among various Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 culture groups that ended in 1890 with a bloody massacre of Lakota people at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Wounded Knee is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 at the United States Census, 2000....
.

Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR
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 in American Anthropologist 24, #2 (New Series), pp.






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James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee
Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
. He was born at Richmond
Richmond, Indiana

Richmond is a city in Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana, Wayne County, Indiana, in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. The city also includes the Richmond Municipal Airport in Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana which is separated from the rest of the city....
, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
. In 1885 he became connected with the Bureau of American Ethnology
Bureau of American Ethnology

The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution....
 at Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 under John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was a United States soldier, geology, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, a three-month river trip down the Green River and Colorado River rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon....
. He compiled a tribal list containing 3,000 titles. His most notable work was his ethnographic study
Ethnography

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Ethnography presents the results of a holism research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other....
 of the Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance

Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Indigenous peoples of the Americas belief systems....
, a widespread religious movement among various Native American
Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
 culture groups that ended in 1890 with a bloody massacre of Lakota people at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Wounded Knee is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 at the United States Census, 2000....
.

Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR
JSTOR

JSTOR is a United States-based Internet system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of Digitizing back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society....
 in American Anthropologist 24, #2 (New Series), pp. 209-214.

Works written by James Mooney

  • Myths of the Cherokees (1888)
  • Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891)
  • Siouan Tribes of the East (1894)
  • The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outreak of 1890, Part 2 of 14th Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 641-1136, Washington GPO 1896.
  • The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance; Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (1898) (1979 reprint:)
  • James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees James Mooney, Introduction by George Ellison


Bibliography

  • The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
  • Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians
  • Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees


External links

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