James Mooney
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James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He was born at Richmond, Indiana. In 1885 he became connected with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D.C. under John Wesley Powell. He compiled a tribal list containing 3,000 titles. His most notable work was his ethnographic study of the Ghost Dance, a widespread religious movement among various Native American culture groups that ended in 1890 with a bloody massacre of Lakota people at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR in American Anthropologist 24, #2 (New Series), pp. 209-214.
[edit] Works written by James Mooney
- Myths of the Cherokees (1888) OCLC 39982772
- Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891) OCLC 17725090
- Siouan Tribes of the East (1894) OCLC 4314005
- The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance; Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians (1898) OCLC 963677 (1979 reprint:OCLC 26956541)
- James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees James Mooney, Introduction by George Ellison[1]
[edit] 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
- ^ Ellison, George; Mooney, James E. (1992). James Mooney's history, myths, and sacred formulas of the Cherokees: containing the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The sacred formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology: with a new biographical introduction, James Mooney and the eastern Cherokees. Asheville, NC: Bright Mountain Books (Historical Images). ISBN 0-914875-19-1.
