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

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

anglization of Chahta, whose meaning is unknown. The anthropologist John R. Swanton suggested that the Choctaw derived their name from an early leader...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

addition, many paintings and sculptures on rock walls were photographed. John Swanton James Teit see: [2] and [3] Bruno Oetteking "Bland, Richard L. Bernard...

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)...

late 19th century due to European-American encroachment. In 1907, John R. Swanton interviewed an elderly Houma woman to collect vocabulary from the Houma...

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

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

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...

of Wales Island, Alaska. The following list includes material from John R. Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America, publ. 1953, and from the Canadian...

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

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

were used in medicine. Jackson Lewis, a Muscogee Creek informant to John R. Swanton, said, "This snake lives in the water has horns like the stag. It is...

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...