James Mooney - Native Americans - 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies

Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas, William John McGee, James Mooney, Garrick Mallery, John Wesley Powell, Lewis Spence, Erminnie A. Smith, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Cyrus Thomas, John G. Bourke, Elias Johnson, John Heckewelder, William C. Reichel, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Alexander Scott Withers, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward S. Curtis, Washington Matthews, Black Hawk & Charles M. Scanlan

History of the Great Tribes, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi…

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General History General History Table of Contents

The North American Indian The North American Indian Table of Contents

The Cherokee Nation of Indians The Cherokee Nation of Indians Table of Contents

The Seminole Indians of Florida The Seminole Indians of Florida Table of Contents

The Central Eskimo The Central Eskimo Table of Contents

The Siouan Indians The Siouan Indians Table of Contents

Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians

Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois and History of the Tuscarora Indians

History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States

Military History

Chronicles of Border Warfare – Indian Wars in West Virginia

Autobiography of the Sauk Leader Black Hawk and the History of the Black Hawk War of 1832

The Vanishing Race - The Last Great Indian Council

Myths & Legends

The Myths of the North American Indians

Myths of the Cherokee

Myths of the Iroquois

A Study of Siouan Cults

Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths

The Mountain Chant - A Navajo Ceremony

Language

Indian Linguistic Families Of America

Sign Language Among North American Indians

Pictographs of the North American Indians

Customs

Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

The Medicine-Men of the Apache

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Foreword

General Introduction

The Apache

Historical Sketch

Homeland and Life

Mythology - Creation Myth

Medicine and Medicine-Men

The Messiah Craze

Puberty Rite

Dance of the Gods

The Jicarillas

Home and General Customs

Mythology - Creation Myth

Miracle Performers

Origin of Fire

The Navaho

Home Life, Arts, and Beliefs

History

Mythology - Creation Myth

Miracle Performers

Legend of the Happiness Chant

Legend of the Night Chant

Ceremonies—The Night Chant

Maturity Ceremony

Marriage

Appendix

Tribal Summary - The Apache

The Jicarillas

The Navaho

Southern Athapascan Comparative Vocabulary

The Pool - Apache

Nayé̆nĕzganĭ - Navaho

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In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures, not merely photographs; whose work has far more than mere accuracy, because it is truthful. All serious students are to be congratulated because he is putting his work in permanent form; for our generation offers the last chance for doing what Mr. Curtis has done. The Indian as he has hitherto been is on the point of passing away. His life has been lived under conditions thru which our own race past so many ages ago that not a vestige of their memory remains. It would be a veritable calamity if a vivid and truthful record of these conditions were not kept. No one man alone could preserve such a record in complete form. Others have worked in the past, and are working in the present, to preserve parts of the record; but Mr. Curtis, because of the singular combination of qualities with which he has been blest, and because of his extraordinary success in making and using his opportunities, has been able to do what no other man ever has done; what, as far as we can see, no other man could do. He is an artist who works out of doors and not in the closet. He is a close observer, whose qualities of mind and body fit him to make his observations out in the field, surrounded by the wild life he commemorates. He has lived on intimate terms with many different tribes of the mountains and the plains. He knows them as they hunt, as they travel, as they go about their various avocations on the march and in the camp. He knows their medicine men and sorcerers, their chiefs and warriors, their young men and maidens. He has not only seen their vigorous outward existence, but has caught glimpses, such as few white men ever catch, into that strange spiritual and mental life of theirs; from whose innermost recesses all white men are forever barred. Mr. Curtis in publishing this book is rendering a real and great service; a service not only to our own people, but to the world of scholarship everywhere.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

October 1st, 1906.

White River - Apache

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The task of recording the descriptive material embodied in these volumes, and of preparing the photographs which accompany them, had its inception in 1898. Since that time, during each year, months of arduous labor have been spent in accumulating the data necessary to form a comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the "superior race."