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James Mooney's History, Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
James Mooney
Foreword by George Ellison

Bright Mountain Books
978-0-914875-19-2
$22.50 paperback
6 x 9 
768 pages
Published in 1992
Historical, Cultural Heritage

This edition of James Mooney's work contains the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, with an exclusive biographical introduction, James Mooney and the Eastern Cherokees, by George Ellison.

This reprint of the classic study of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee by James Mooney is enhanced by the addition of a bibliography of Mooney's writings on the Cherokee. Mooney's historic work is valuable for both the layman and the scholar, and is considered the definitive text on Cherokee life.

Reviews

"A rich mine of information."
Library Journal

"You owe it to yourself to become informed about these neighbors, their background, hopes, and problems."
The State: Down Home In North Carolina

"[A]uthentic genius... Mooney and his beloved Cherokees...will shine like a planet newly discovered on the bright horizon of many an excited reader."
Wilma Dykeman

Links

James Mooney's biography, with links to the register of James Mooney's papers