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James Mooney (1861-1921) was a notable Anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee . He was born at Richmond, Ind. 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 . WORKS WRITTEN BY JAMES MOONEY
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