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When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887
and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in
the United States. His dispassionate account of their history from
the time of their first contact with whites until the end of the
nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles won and lost,
treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed and people massacred.
There is humanity along with inhumanity in the relations between
the Cherokee and other groups, Indian and non-Indian; there is
fortitude and persistence balanced with disillusionment and
frustration. In these respects, the history of the Cherokee
epitomizes the experience of most Native Americans. The Cherokee
Nation ceased to exist as a political entity seven years after the
initial study was done, when Oklahoma became a state.In the
introduction to the original publication of this history in 1900,
James Mooney commented that "there is change indeed in dress and
outward seeming, but the heart of the Indian is still his own."
This history was originally included in the 19th Annual Report of
the Bureau of American Ethnology.It was republished under the
auspices of the National Anthropological Archives of the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, at the request of the
Governing Body of the Cherokee Nation, in 1975, with new
introductory material and supplementary illustrations from the
archives. The volume has a foreword from W.W. Keeler, chief of the
Cherokee Nation, and an introduction by Richard Mack Bettis,
president of the Tulsa Tsa-La-Gi-Ya Cherokee Community.
When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between
1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian
tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their
history from the time of their first contact with whites until the
end of the nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles
won and lost, treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed and
people massacred. There is humanity along with inhumanity in the
relations between the Cherokee and other groups, Indian and
non-Indian; there is fortitude and persistence balanced with
disillusionment and frustration. In these respects, the history of
the Cherokee epitomizes the experience of most Native Americans.
The Cherokee Nation ceased to exist as a political entity seven
years after the initial study was done, when Oklahoma became a
state.
In the introduction to the original publication of this history
in 1900, James Mooney commented that "there is change indeed in
dress and outward seeming, but the heart of the Indian is still his
own." This history was originally included in the 19th Annual
Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
It was republished under the auspices of the National
Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural
History, at the request of the Governing Body of the Cherokee
Nation, in 1975, with new introductory material and supplementary
illustrations from the archives. The volume has a foreword from
W.W. Keeler, chief of the Cherokee Nation, and an introduction by
Richard Mack Bettis, president of the Tulsa Tsa-La-Gi-Ya Cherokee
Community.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
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Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of
the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out
to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the
Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress
of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and
recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes. His
classic work (first published in 1896 and here reprinted in its
entirety for the first time) includes succinct cultural and
historical introductions to each of those tribal groups and depicts
the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, the fears it raised of an Indian
outbreak, and the military occupation of the Sioux reservations
culminating in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Seeking to demonstrate
that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate religious movement, Mooney
prefaced his study with a historical survey of comparable
millenarian movements among other American Indian groups. In
addition to his work on the Ghost Dance, James Mooney is best
remembered for his extraordinarily detailed studies of the Cherokee
Indians of the Southeast and the Kiowa and other tribes of the
southern plains, and for his advocacy of American Indian religious
freedom. Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian
Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at
Indiana University, has edited James R. Walker's Lakota Society
(1982) andThe Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to
John G. Neihardt (1984), both published by the University of
Nebraska Press.
Comprehensive selection of 126 myths, including sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, wonder stories, historical traditions and miscellaneous myths and legends. Also, extensive background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths, parallels between Cherokee and other myths, much more. 20 maps and illustrations.
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