JAMES MOONEY

'James Mooney' (1861-1921) was a notable 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. 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 confrontation against the United States Army at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR in ''American Anthropologist'' 24, #2 (New Series), pp. 209-214.

Contents

Works written by James Mooney

Bibliography

Works written by James Mooney

★ ''Myths of the Cherokees'' (1888)

★ ''Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees'' (1891)

★ ''Siouan Tribes of the East'' (1894)

★ ''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^[1]

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
1. 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, Ellison, George; Mooney, James E., , , Bright Mountain Books (Historical Images), 1992,