James Mooney - Works written by James Mooney, Bibliography

Ethnologist, born in Richmond, Indiana, USA. The son of Irish immigrants, he became absorbed by North American Indian culture at an early age. He worked as a newspaperman in his home town before moving to Washington, DC (1885), where he found employment in the Bureau of American Ethnology. He remained there for the rest of his life, studying and writing about the language, folklore, and mythology of the Cherokee, Kiowa, and Sioux tribes. He helped prepare the Handbook of American Indians (1907–10).

1882), prospector and namesake of Mooney Falls

James Mooney (1861-1921) was a notable anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. 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.

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)

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