John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout...

" Anthropologist John R. Swanton reports that the Choctaw derived their name from an early leader of the Choctaw people. Swanton's report was taken directly...

the Polish Sociological Institute. London: Macmillan. pp. 505–506. Swanton, John R. (1952). The Indian tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution...

Francis Swanton (c. 1605–1661), English politician and lawyer Fred Swanton (1862–1940), American politician and entrepreneur John R. Swanton (1873–1958)...

prominent animal crests, wind directions, and legendary ancestors. John R. Swanton, while documenting Haida beliefs as part of the Jesup North Pacific...

down to the Florida Keys and north along the Gulf coast; historian John R. Swanton believed that he sailed perhaps as far as Apalachee Bay on Florida's...

1977. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 223. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 232. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224...

suspected that Ofo was a Muskogean language. However, anthropologist John R. Swanton met an elder Ofo speaker, Rosa Pierrette, in 1908 while he was conducting...

Santees, Sampits (Sampa), Winyahs, and Pedees. According to ethnographer John R. Swanton, the Waccamaw may have been one of the first mainland groups of Natives...

the north (according to John R. Swanton), or turned south and entered northern Georgia (according to Charles M. Hudson). Swanton's final report, published...

to connect Atakapa with other languages of the Southeast. In 1919 John R. Swanton proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa, Tunica...

of the account by Peter Martyr, court chronicler, the ethnographer John R. Swanton believed that Chicora was from a Catawban group. In Hispaniola, where...

Around 1907 he worked with anthropologist John R. Swanton who collected information about Natchez religion. Swanton commented that Sam, having lived among...

the anthropology program at Northwestern University. He also trained John R. Swanton (who studied with Boas at Columbia for two years before receiving his...

school, in which domestic science shall also be taught. Anthropologist John R. Swanton reported on possible origins of the Indians of Robeson County in his...

Cotoname and Coahuilteco languages into a family called Coahuiltecan. John R. Swanton (1915) grouped together the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa...

East Texas coast and believed extinct since the mid-20th century. John R. Swanton in 1919 proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa...

(people from the other side) Okla Fayala (people who are widely dispersed) John Swanton writes "there are only the faintest traces of groups with truly totemic...

According to John R. Swanton they were a subdivision of the Nanticoke. They were the first Native people on the mainland to encounter Captain John Smith, before...

war emblem is the saktce-ho'ma, or Red Crawfish, the anthropologist John R. Swanton speculated that the Houma are an offshoot of the Yazoo River region's...

articles. F. W. Hodge (1899–1910) John R. Swanton (1911) F. W. Hodge (1912–1914) Pliny E. Goddard (1915–1920) John R. Swanton (1921–1923) Robert H. Lowie (1924–1933)...

find out about the Tlingit people of Canada. Tlingit Myths and Texts, John R. Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 39, 1909 Central Council Tlingit...

Frontier, 1540-1783 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1967]). John R. Swanton, Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors (Washington...

several Siouan-speaking tribes occupied southeastern North Carolina. John R. Swanton, a pioneering ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution, wrote in...

Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations—reservation status. John R. Swanton enumerates 201 Cherokee villages and towns. The Cherokee had 6,000...

and Pokanoket, now known as Wampanoag to the south. Anthropologist John R. Swanton wrote that their territory extended as far north as what is now Salem...

1886. This initial documentation was further developed by linguist John R. Swanton in the early 1900s. The last known native speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant...

when anthropologist John R. Swanton visited the Natchez there were seven fluent speakers left, but in the 1930s when linguist Mary R. Haas did her fieldwork...

20th-century work (mostly unpublished) of linguists Morris Swadesh and John R. Swanton. Swadesh in particular wrote a full grammar and dictionary, and collected...

Manahoac is Algonquian for "they are very merry", but anthropologist John R. Swanton considered this dubious. After thousands of years of different Indigenous...