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  EVENTS 1540 to 1799 NA Profile © Series
[John R. Swanton, 1944; Bureau of American Ethnology] 1607 - May; after the English arrival on the northeast shore of the James River, on the present site of "Jamestown" VA. Continuous contact between the Cherokee and the Whites were made when traders from that colony commenced to work their way into the Appalachian Mountains.
Population of Cherokees 1720 - 10,000 total per John R. Swanton (1944) Population of Cherokees 1720 - 11,500 total per John R. Swanton (1944) 1721 - The 1st Cherokee Treaty with the Governor of the South Carolina Charles CRAVEN is thought to be the first concession of Cherokee land.
John WATTS "Chief War Chief" decided that the wise action was to destroy "Knoxville", the largest white village on the Cherokee boarder, and he pursuaded BENCH, DOUBLEHEAD, and Chief James VANN, the half-breed, to join him.
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 John R. Swanton on the Virginia Indiansm Manahoac through Tutelo
In 1608 John Smith discovered them in the location above given and learned that they were allied with the Monacan but at war with the Powhatan Indians and the Iroquois (or perhaps rather the Susquehanna).
After this they suddenly vanish from history under a certainly recognizable name, but there is good reason to believe that they were one of those tribes which settled near the falls of the James River in 1654 or 1656 and defeated a combined force of Whites and coast Indians who had been sent against them.
In 1825 they are mentioned as living on a reservation in Southampton County and ruled over by a "queen." The name of this tribe was also applied to a band of Indians which appeared on the northern frontiers of South Carolina between 1748 and 1754.
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 Swanton Family Groups in Massachusetts
Bridget Mahony Hurley Swanton was born in 1846 in County Cork, Ireland and died in 1923 in Arlington, MA.
John Swanton, bleacher, born in Ireland in 1848, son of Job Swanton and Mary Jane, married Jane Abbott Wright, born in Ireland in 1848, died in Boston in 1914, daughter of Benjamin Wright and Mary Jane, married January 18, 1872 in Peabody, MA by Albert Gould, clergyman, Peabody
John married Mary McCarthy, daughter of Daniel (John) McCarthy and Mary of Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland, born 1850 in Ireland, died Oct. 25, 1916 at 38 Belden Street, South Boston, MA of arteriosclerosis and grippe.
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 Alibris: John R. Swanton
Swanton's long association with the Choctaws is evident in his thorough descriptions of their customs and way of life and in...
First published in 1942, John R. Swanton's "Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians" is a classic reference on the Caddos.
John R. Swanton visited the Creek Nation in the early twentieth century and learned about many important aspects of Creek religious life and medicine....
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 Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors - a book from the University Press of Florida
In the introduction, Swanton explains that he was able to obtain information from about 9,000 living Indians, some of whom he quotes directly.
John R. Swanton, who was curator of North American archaeology in the anthropology department of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History for five decades, is widely regarded as the most distinguished ethnographer of American Indians.
"Swanton's scholarship is impressive in both its breadth and detail; it is equally elegant in terms of its theoretical reasoning.
www.upf.com /Fall1998/swanton.html   (318 words)

  
 BAE LIST OF PUBLICATION: BULLETINS
Part I: Introduction, by Franz Boas; Athapascan (Hupa), by Pliny Earle Goddard; Tlingit, Haida, by John R. Swanton; Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Chinook, by Franz Boas; Maidu, by Roland B. Dixon; Algonquian (Fox), by William Jones (revised by Truman Michelson); Siouan (Dakota), by Franz Boas and John R. Swanton; Eskimo, by William Thalbitzer.
Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington.
With a chapter on structural investigations in 1943, by Waldo R. Wedel, and appendix on technological analyses, by Anna O. Shepard.
www.sil.si.edu /DigitalCollections/BAE/Bulletin200/200bulls.htm   (6435 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: AKOKISA INDIANS
John R. Swanton, Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico (Washington: GPO, 1911).
John R. Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America (Gross Pointe, Michigan: Scholarly Press, 1968).
John R. Swanton, The Indians of the Southeastern United States (Washington: GPO, 1946).
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/bma17.html   (435 words)

  
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SI 2.1: 892-893, pt 1 5) Adam G and Jacob M, Choctaw: John R. Swanton, Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Chocktaw Indians.
SI 2.3:103 6) Heather K and Shana N, Creek: John R. Swanton, Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians.
John R. Swanton, Social Condition, Beliefs, and Linguistic Relationship of the Tlingit Indians.
www.uwec.edu /AIS/AIS330/ClassicSources.doc   (446 words)

  
 American Indian Collections at the APS
SWANTON, JOHN R. Correspondence with Franz Boas [1898-1932].
Marginal page and line references refer to free translations in Swanton (1905b), probably made by Theresa M. Durlach, who cites these numbers in her work (1928).
Swanton to Speck: March 10 and Feb. 14, 1941, concerning Houma slings and darts.
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 Native American Legal Materials Microfiche Collection -- Brief Bibs, Titles 3253-3496 -- Washburn Law Library
Stephens, Harry R. The government of the Indians of South Dakota [microform] / by Harry R. Stephens.
Indian tribes of the lower Mississippi Valley and adjacent coast of the Gulf of Mexico [microform] / by John R. Swanton.
Myths and tales of the southeastern Indians [microform] / by John R.
washburnlaw.edu /library/collections/nalm/bib_3253-3496.php   (2059 words)

  
 NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN - POPULATION RECORDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
LA Avoyel 1698 280 total, per John R. Swanton (1944) LA Avoyel 1700 40 warriors per Iberville and Bienville LA Avoyel 1750 0 this tribe is Extinct!
MS Ibitoupa 1722 6 Cabins reported, John R. Swanton (1944) MS Ibitoupa 1722 40 Choula, a possible offshoot John R. Swanton (FL Jece 1650 1000 Mooney (1928) estimates Tekesta, Guacata, & J FL Jece 1726 88 "Costa" Indians reported in a mission north FL Jece 1728 52 "Costa" Indians were reported.
536) FL Pohoy 1680 300 Pooy, or Posoy per John R. Swanton (1944) FL Potano 1602 1100 Franciscan missionaries were catechizing FL Potano 1650 3000 Mooney (1928) estimate FL Potano 1675 160 in the 2 Potano missions.
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 De Soto's Trails thru Florida, Part 4 of 4, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References
Hemming, John 1973 The Conquest of the Incas,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, N.Y. Hodge, Frederick W. 1907 Spanish Explorers in the United States, in Original Narratives of Early American History, Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y. Hoffman, Paul 1990 A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient, Louisiana State University Press.
Schoolcraft, Henry R. Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Philadelphia, 6 Parts; Plate XLIV, Volume III and pp 58-68 Volume VI.
Sprague, John T. 1964 The Origin, Progress and Conclusion of the Florida War, a reprint of the 1848 publication,introduction by John K. Mahon, University of Florida Press, Gnv.
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 Find in a Library: The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton.
Find in a Library: The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton.
The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
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 Virginia's Indians, Past & Present
John Smith: The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia (1612)
Pocahontas Myth The Powhatan Renape Nation's statement on the myth surrounding Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.
John Rolfe Biography; colonial adventurer and husband of Pocahontas
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 Native American Links
A "snapshot history" of Native Americans of Puget Sound from HistoryLink, a project related to the sesquicentennial of Seattle and King County.
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More Canadian Culture photo essays may be found via Images Canada, a developing collaboration of Canadian of museums, libraries and archives.
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Subtitle: An Extract from Handbook of American Indian Languages by Franz Boas, Originally Published in 1911 As Bulletin 40 of the Burea
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 Our Bibliography For This Site
Aboriginal Culture Of The Southeast - Swanton                         America's First Western Frontier: East Tenn - Brenda C. Calloway
Dictionary of the American Indian - John Stoutenburgh Jr.
Discourses Of Brigham Young - John A. Widtsoe
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 South Carolina SC - Indians, Native Americans - Catawba
- published in 1920 by John R. Swanton
Catawba Monuments in Fort Mill - includes photos and transcriptions
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
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 Links to North American Indian History Sites by Phil Konstantin
Illinois - The Indian Tribes of North America by John R. Swanton
transcripts of 5 letters to: John Baptist de Coigne, Hnadsome Lake, the Choctaw Nation, The Cherokee Nation, and the Wolf and Mandan Nation
"by John E. Kicza The William and Mary Quarterly, April 1992"
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 Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Press - home
Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Press - home
First published in 1929, John R. Swanton’s Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore.
During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians.
www.oupress.com /bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-2784-8   (135 words)

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