Originally published in 1891 and 1900, Myths of the Cherokees and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees have been the definitive work on the customs and beliefs of the Cherokee...
Exclusive to this edition, George Ellison's biographical portrait of James Mooney emphasizes the ethnologist's timeliness and his empathy for the Cherokees and their rich heritage.
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
Moving down the Arkansas , they menaced Fort Smith , but were met by our forces and compelled to ... retreat toward Red River.49 According to Dr. Hitchcock , Jim Butler's men had in their recent raid pulled the shoes off the feet of ...
Free Press , 1987 ) , and J. Garry Clifford , The First Peacetime Draft ( Lawrence : University of Kansas Press , 1986 ) . 6. Henderson to John A. Hyde and Sheriffs of Graham and Cherokee counties , May 22 , 1917 ; Henderson to Stone ...
an ancient legend of the Delaware, giving references to relations with and the southward movement of the Cherokee. ... or pre-Columbian history of the Cherokee, not because of a Eurocentric sense of dismissal, but because of his ...
Timberlake, Memoirs, p. 65, 1765. Catawba reference from Milligan, 1763, in Carroll, South Carolina Historical Collections, II, p. 519, 1836. Figures from Adair, American Indians, p. 227, 1775. When not otherwise noted this sketch of ...
Mooney documents and photographs are in the collections of the National Archives of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.James Mooney was born on February 10, 1861 in Richmond, Indiana, the son of Irish Catholic ...
Cherokee America vividly, and often with humor, explores the bonds--of blood and place, of buried histories and half-told tales, of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful, eclectic cast of characters, anchored by the clever, ...
This is an ethnographic description of Cherokee shamanistic practice.