Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

James Mooney (1861–1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains, most notably ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull’s death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups, and the Cherokee.

Mooney’s The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), published by the US Bureau of American Ethnology, inclu…