James Mooney
James Mooney (1861–1921) was an anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He was the author of Myths of the Cherokee (1888), Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee (1891), and The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, an 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. His collected James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees is available from Bright Mountain Books (1992).
Resources created by James Mooney
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- The bullfrog lover
- A Cherokee myth recorded in the late nineteenth century.
- Format: article
- By James Mooney.
- How the wildcat caught the gobbler
- A Cherokee myth recorded in the late nineteenth century.
- Format: article
- By James Mooney.
- How the world was made
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 1.3
- This Cherokee creation story, written down in the 1800s, describes how the earth was created from soft mud "when all was water."
- By James Mooney.
- The Origin of Disease and Medicine
- A Cherokee myth recorded in the late nineteenth century.
- Format: article
- By James Mooney.
- The wolf's revenge; the wolf and the dog
- A Cherokee myth recorded in the late nineteenth century.
- Format: article
- By James Mooney.
