James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language) are a people native to North America, who at the time of European contact He was born at Richmond, Indiana. Richmond (ˈrɪtʃmənd is a city in Wayne Township, Wayne County, in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union In 1885 he became connected with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D.C. under John Wesley Powell. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Bureau of American Ethnology (originally Bureau of Ethnology was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives records and materials Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D John Wesley Powell ( March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U 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 massacre of Lakota people at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Ethnography ( Greek ethnos = people and graphein = writing is a genre of writing that uses Fieldwork to provide a descriptive Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890 the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Wounded Knee ( Lakhota Cankpe Opi) is a Census-designated place (CDP in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States.
Mooney's obituary is available on JSTOR in American Anthropologist 24, #2 (New Series), pp. JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States -based online system for archiving Academic journals founded in 1995 209-214.