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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

  • ''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)

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  • 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