James Mooney Full-text Articles

James Mooney, 1861-1921, was a self-trained anthropologist who was passionately interested in American Indians. Through his research, he became the leading authority on the Cherokee in his time. Under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology, he made several trips to the Qualla Boundary, visiting with the Cherokee, learning their language, and studying their culture. Mooney published many articles on the Cherokee, some of which are provided in full-text below:

• "Cherokee and Iroquois Parallels." (pdf) Journal of American Folklore. 2, no. 4(January, 1889): 67
• "The Cherokee Ball Play." (pdf) The American Anthropologist. 3, no. 2 (April 1890): 105-132.
• "Cherokee Plant Lore." (pdf) The American Anthropologist. 2, no. 3 (July 1889): 223-4.
• "The Cherokee River Cult." (pdf) The Journal of American Folklore. 8, no. 48 (January-March 1900): 1-10.
• "Evolution in Cherokee Personal Names." (pdf) American Anthropologist 2, no. 1 (Jan. 1889): 61-2
• "Improved Cherokee Alphabets." (pdf) American Anthropologist 5, no. 1 (January 1892): 63-64
• "Myths of the Cherokee." (pdf) Journal of American Folklore 1, no. 2 (July-Sept. 1888): 97-108
• "The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee" (from The Internet Sacred Text Archive)

• Junaluska Memorial and Museum
• Museum of the Cherokee Indian
• Cherokee Phoenix (newspaper) - Full-text
• Harbold, Laura. "Speaking Across Generations: Cherokee Work to Save Their Language." Humanities. 26, no. 3 (September/October 2005).
• History of the Cherokee

• Eastern Band - Cherokee, North Carolina
• Western Band - Tahlequah, Oklahoma