James Mooney

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.

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 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) oclc|963677 (1979 reprint:oclc|26956541)
*"James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees" James Mooney, Introduction by George Ellisoncite book |author=Ellison, George; Mooney, James E. |title=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 |publisher=Bright Mountain Books (Historical Images) |location=Asheville, NC |year=1992 |pages= |isbn=0-914875-19-1 |oclc= |doi=]

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

* [http://cherokeeregistry.firstlightonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=130 Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees] (digitized text)