John R. Swanton

Author of The Indian tribes of North America

About the Author

John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was a seminal figure in the study of southeastern Native peoples, with more than thirty books to his credit James T. Carson is an assistant professor of history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario

Includes the names: John Swanton, Swanton; John R., John Reed Swanton

Image credit: From John Swanton biographical memoir, National Academy of Sciences, 1960.

Works by John R. Swanton

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The Indian tribes of North America (1952) 111 copies, 2 reviews

The Indians of the Southeastern United States (1946) 58 copies

Myths and tales of the southeastern Indians (1929) 47 copies

Early history of the Creek Indians and their neighbors (1922) 38 copies

Source material on the history and ethnology of the Caddo Indians (1942) 31 copies, 1 review

Tlingit myths and texts (1909) 30 copies, 1 review

Indian tribes of the lower Mississippi Valley and adjacent coast of the Gulf of Mexico (1911) 28 copies

Source material for the social and ceremonial life of the Choctaw Indians (1931) 22 copies

Final Report of the United States: De Soto Expedition Commission (1985) 21 copies

Handbook of American Indian languages (1993) — Author — 18 copies, 1 review

Haida texts and myths : Skidegate dialect (1905) 16 copies

Creek Religion and Medicine (1928) 12 copies

Indian Tribes of Washington, Oregon and Idaho (1979) 11 copies

Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico (1940) 9 copies

Chickasaw Society and Religion (2006) 9 copies

Skidegate Haida myths and histories (1995) 7 copies

Social Condition, Beliefs And Linguistic Relationship Of The Tlingit Indians (2010) 6 copies

A structural and lexical comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa languages (1976) 5 copies

Anthropology in North America 4 copies

Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest (1974) 4 copies

Haida songs (1974) 3 copies

Social organization and social usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy (1928) 3 copies

Haida songs Volume 3 (2010) 2 copies

Tlingit Indian Language (2007) 2 copies

Indian tribes of the American Southwest 2 copies

Social organization and social usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy 2 copies

"Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians," 2 copies

Aboriginal culture of the Southeast 2 copies

"The Landing Place of De Soto," 2 copies

"The Early History of the Eastern Siouan Tribes," 1 copy

Indian Tribes of the American Southwest (1986) 1 copy

"Notes on the Occurrence of Bison near the Gulf of Mexico," 1 copy

Choctaw Social and Ceremonial Life (1983) 1 copy

Florida Historical Quarterly Vol XVI No 3 Jan 1938 1 copy

Indian Tribes of Alaska and Canada (1952) 1 copy

Indian Tribes of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies (1911) 1 copy

"Social Organization and the Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy," IN Forty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1924-1925, pp. 279-325.… 1 copy

The Haida Indian language (1986) 1 copy

Haida Songs, Vol. 3: Tsimshiam Texts (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 copy

"Modern Square Grounds of the Creek Indians." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, v. 85, no. 8. (1931), pp. 1-46 plates. 1 copy

The Interpretation of Aboriginal Mounds by Means of Creek Indian Customs : From the Smithsonian Report for 1927, Pages 495-506 (with 7 plates) (1928) 1 copy

“Probable identity of the 'Croatan Indians'.” 1 copy

An early account of the Choctaw Indians 1 copy

The Wineland Voyages 1 copy

Haida Texts and Myths : Skidegate Dialect 1 copy

"Occurrence of Bison in Florida," 1 copy

I. Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida; II. The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island, (Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume V) 1 copy

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 145: The Indian Tribes of North America 1 copy

Part of the Melish Map of 1814 covering the Seat of War between the Creek Indians and the Americans in 1813-14. 1 copy

"California," 1 copy

"De Soto's Line of March from the Viewpoint of an Ethnologist," 1 copy

Anthropological papers No. 26. The quipu and Peruvian civilization, 1 copy

Indian Tribes of the Southeastern United States. 1 copy

Territory of the States of Georgia and Alabama Illustrating the Geographical Distribution and Movements of the Tribes and Towns of the Creek Confederacy. 1 copy

The Southeastern Part of the Present United States from the Popple Map of 1733. 1 copy

The Territory Between the Chattahoochee and Mississippi Rivers. 1 copy

Part of the Purtell Map Compiled not later than 1770 in the interest of British Indian Trade. 1 copy

"New Light on the Early History of the Siouan Peoples," 1 copy

Linguistic Material from the Tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1940, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 127 1 copy

Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 39 1 copy

Haida Texts and Myths Skidegate Dialect, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology: W. H. Holmes, Chief Bulletin 29 1 copy

A Structural and Lexical Comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa Languages, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 68 1 copy

Tlingit Myths and Texts (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 39) (1909) 1 copy

Haida Songs V3; Tsimshian Texts (1912) (2007) 1 copy

Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 132 1 copy

Social and Religious Beliefs and Usages of the Chickasaw Indians 1 copy

The Distribution of Indian Tribes in the Southeast Around the Year 1715. 1 copy

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A dictionary of the Choctaw language (1915) — Editor, some editions — 26 copies

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Legal name: Swanton, John Reed
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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keylawk 2,151 reviews

The Indian Tribes of North America Smithsonian Inst. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 145 by John R. Swanton

Index, with this particular feature: Look up the name of any one of the 50 States and find a LIST of the tribes in that region.

Provides cultural information, population, "History", and where the tribe and its neighbors believed they came from. Little or no "pre-history" or archeology. (For example, that the siksik (blackfeet) once raised corn but reverted to buffalo hunting and within a very few generations no longer had a cultural memory of agriculture.)

Contains a large placement map.

Nov 22, 20071 other review

Sally-AnneLambert 19 reviews

Tlingit myths and texts by John Reed Swanton

This kind of original text of myth, along with translation is of greatest importance for our American heritage!!! Please, if anybody has other material of genuine myth texts, I need them!!!! Ones from languages all over the Americas. With these myths we can help preserve the Native American languages in a real way.

Aug 16, 2009

PastfindersGenSoc 38 reviews

The Indian Tribes of North America (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 145.) by John R. Swanton