John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout...
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anglization of Chahta, whose meaning is unknown. The anthropologist John R. Swanton suggested that the Choctaw derived their name from an early leader...
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the Polish Sociological Institute. London: Macmillan. pp. 505–506. Swanton, John R. (1952). The Indian tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution...
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prominent animal crests, wind directions, and legendary ancestors. John R. Swanton, while documenting Haida beliefs as part of the Jesup North Pacific...
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Francis Swanton (c. 1605–1661), English politician and lawyer Fred Swanton (1862–1940), American politician and entrepreneur John R. Swanton (1873–1958)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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of the account by Peter Martyr, court chronicler, the ethnographer John R. Swanton believed that Chicora was from a Catawban group. In Hispaniola, where...
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to connect Atakapa with other languages of the Southeast. In 1919 John R. Swanton proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa, Tunica...
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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...
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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...
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the north (according to John R. Swanton), or turned south and entered northern Georgia (according to Charles M. Hudson). Swanton’s final report, published...
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the anthropology program at Northwestern University. He also trained John R. Swanton (who studied with Boas at Columbia for two years before receiving his...
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(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...
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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...
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William John McGee, LL.D. (April 17, 1853 – September 4, 1912) was an American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist, born in Farley, Iowa...
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Cotoname and Coahuilteco languages into a family called Coahuiltecan. John R. Swanton (1915) grouped together the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa...
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Jesup North Pacific Expedition (section John Swanton)
addition, many paintings and sculptures on rock walls were photographed. John Swanton James Teit see: [2] and [3] Bruno Oetteking "Bland, Richard L. Bernard...
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1886. This initial documentation was further developed by linguist John R. Swanton in the early 1900s. The last known native speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant...
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"water" and ecas- "beaver." A Hitchiti informant to anthropologist John R. Swanton pronounced the location Oetcotukni, suggesting a possible derivation...
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News. Swanton, John R. (1952). The Indian tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. pp. 216–221. Carroll, B. R. (1836)...
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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...
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several Siouan-speaking tribes occupied southeastern North Carolina. John R. Swanton, a pioneering ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution, wrote in...
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Manahoac is Algonquian for "they are very merry", but anthropologist John R. Swanton considered this dubious. After thousands of years of different indigenous...
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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...
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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...
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20th-century work (mostly unpublished) of linguists Morris Swadesh and John R. Swanton. Swadesh in particular wrote a full grammar and dictionary, and collected...
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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...
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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...
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