John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout...

anglization of Chahta, whose meaning is unknown. The anthropologist John R. Swanton suggested that the Choctaw derived their name from an early leader...

prominent animal crests, wind directions, and legendary ancestors. John R. Swanton, while documenting Haida beliefs as part of the Jesup North Pacific...

the Polish Sociological Institute. London: Macmillan. pp. 505–506. Swanton, John R. (1952). The Indian tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution...

1977. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 223. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 232. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224. John R. Swanton 1935, p. 224...

Santees, Sampits (Sampa), Winyahs, and Pedees. According to ethnographer John R. Swanton, the Waccamaw may have been one of the first mainland groups of Natives...

suspected that Ofo was a Muskogean language. However, anthropologist John R. Swanton met an elder Ofo speaker, Rosa Pierrette, in 1908 while he was conducting...

Francis Swanton (c. 1605–1661), English politician and lawyer Fred Swanton (1862–1940), American politician and entrepreneur John R. Swanton (1873–1958)...

to connect Atakapa with other languages of the Southeast. In 1919 John R. Swanton proposed a Tunican language family that would include Atakapa, Tunica...

of the account by Peter Martyr, court chronicler, the ethnographer John R. Swanton believed that Chicora was from a Catawban group. In Hispaniola, where...