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    James Mooney was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. Known as "The Indian Man", he conducted major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as of tribes on the Great Plains. He did ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance, a spiritual movement among various Native American culture groups, after Sitting Bull's death in 1890. His works on the Cherokee include The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, and Myths of the Cherokee. All were published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology, within the Smithsonian Institution. Native American artifacts collected by Mooney are held 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. Wikipedia

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    James Mooney (February 10, 1861 - December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee.Known as "The Indian Man", [1] he conducted major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as of tribes on the Great Plains. [2] He did ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance, a spiritual movement among various Native American culture groups, after Sitting Bull's ...
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    Feb 6, 2025James Mooney (born Feb. 10, 1861, Richmond, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1921, Washington, D.C.) was an early U.S. ethnographer of American Indians, especially those of the southeastern United States.His investigations of the history, heraldry, and culture of the Cherokee and Kiowa included the deciphering of the Kiowa calendar and the discovery of an ancient ritual of the North Carolina ...
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    Details the life and career of James Mooney (1861-1921), an ethnologist for the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1885 to 1921, who studied the Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Cherokee tribes. Discusses his role in United States National Museum exhibits on American Indians and his ambivalent attitude towards assimilation versus preservation ...
  6. Mooney, James, 1861-1921. Sacred formulas of the Cherokees. 1992 Autocrop_version ..14_books-20220331-.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40678515 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:lcp:jamesmooneyshist0000moon:lcpdf:44d8b74c-2c73-4dac-a077-48bc070d4973 ...
  7. nativehistoryassociation.org

    These stories are from James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Mooney was an ethnologist that worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1887 and 1890 he did fieldwork with the Cherokee, mainly in North Carolina but also in Oklahoma.
  8. Today, in the Smoky Mountains, where James Mooney first spent time with the Eastern Band of Cherokee and where a substantial number fled to avoid displacement under President Jackson, an effort is under way to renew the mountains' waterways. Some 30 miles of protected streams burble alongside quiet, forested areas and through the town center ...
  9. James Mooney's treatise on Cherokee culture is comprehensive and quite voluminous. From his description of the Cherokee ballgame to the expose on the Cherokee Ketoowah secret society. Some people believe the Cherokees sold out in regards to land cession but this book tells the true story of the Cherokee's bitter opposition to land cession and ...
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  10. newworldencyclopedia.org

    James Mooney (February 10, 1861 - December 22, 1921) was an American anthropologist, most famous for his work on Native American Indians. He studied the Ghost Dance religious movement that united Native Americans developed in non-violent resistance to the "Westernization" imposed on them by white European immigrants. Mooney compiled a detailed and sympathetic account of this phenomenon ...
  11. oklevuehanac.com

    James Mooney: Smithsonian Institute Ethnologist James Mooney Archaeologist and Ethnologist (February 10, 1861-December 22, 1921) Predecessor of James Warren "Flaming Eagle" Mooney James Mooney, anthropologist, was born in Richmond, Indiana, the son of James Mooney and Ellen Devlin, Irish immigrants. His father died soon after his birth. His mother, who made her living as a - James Mooney ...

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