The Bayogoula (also known as the Bayagoula , Bayagola , or Bayugla ) were a Native American tribe from Louisiana in the southern United States .
12-577: John Reed Swanton translated the name ⟨Bayogoula⟩ to mean " bayou people" and wrote that they lived near Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish, Louisiana . Their name has been written as ⟨Bayou Goula⟩ . The Bayogoula language is undocumented and hence also unclassified. They may have spoken a Southern Muskogean language , related to the Choctaw language and Houma language . Ethnologist James Mooney estimated that
24-684: A PhD in 1900. His mentor at Harvard was Frederic Ward Putnam , who sent him to study linguistics with Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1898 and 1899, as he worked on his PhD dissertation, The Morphology of the Chinook Verb . Within months of receiving his doctorate from Harvard, Swanton began working for the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC , at which he continued for
36-576: A new infectious disease carried by the French and other Europeans, among whom it was endemic. The remaining Bayagoula are believed to have moved to the area of the present-day Ascension Parish of Louisiana. Some likely joined nearby villages of the Houma and Acolapissa who lived in the area, whilst others likely intermarried with neighboring French, Spanish, and German colonists. John Reed Swanton John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 â May 2, 1958)
48-893: A project by The College of William and Mary which includes some of the recordings by Gouge. Swanton also worked with the Caddo , and published briefly on the quipu system of the Inca . Swanton was one of the founding members of the Swedenborg Scientific Association in 1898. He was president of the American Anthropological Association in 1932. He also served as editor of the American Anthropological Association's flagship journal, American Anthropologist , in 1911 and from 1921 to 1923. Swanton
60-737: A year with the Haida. Another major study area was of the Muskogean -speaking peoples in Texas , Louisiana , and Oklahoma . Swanton published extensively on the Creek people , Chickasaw , and Choctaw . He also documented analyses about many other less well-known groups, such as the Biloxi , Ofo , and Tunica , the last of which supplemented earlier work by Albert Samuel Gatschet . He worked with Natchez speaker Watt Sam and argued in favor of including
72-573: The Natchez language with the Muskogean language group. Swanton wrote works including partial dictionaries, studies of linguistic relationships, collections of native stories, and studies of social organization. He worked with Earnest Gouge , a Creek who recorded a large number of traditional stories at Swanton's request. These materials were never published by Swanton. They have recently been published online as Creek Folktales by Earnest Gouge , in
84-590: The Bayagoula, Quinipissa , and Mugulasha had a combined population of 1,500 in 1650. In 1699, the Bayagoula were one of the first tribes in Louisiana to meet French colonist Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville . They shared a village with the Mugulasha, a related tribe. The Houma that winter, and next spring in 1700, the Bayagoula attacked and destroyed the Mugulasha. In 1706, Taensa refugees who had settled with
96-540: The Bayogoula attacked them. Surviving Bayogoula settled near New Orleans and then moved to Ascension Parish . In 1715, they had an estimated 40 warriors. By 1739, they settled in between the Houma and Acolapissa . The Tunica tribe moved into the community soon thereafter. In 1706, the Tunica ambushed the Bayagoula and almost killed all of them. By 1721, the rest of the tribe had suffered many deaths from smallpox ,
108-558: The duration of his career, spanning more than 40 years. Swanton first did fieldwork in the Northwest. In his early career, he worked mostly with the Tlingit and Haida . He produced two extensive compilations of Haida stories and myths, and transcribed many of them into Haida. These transcriptions have served as the basis for Robert Bringhurst 's translation of the poetry of Haida mythtellers Skaay and Ghandl . Swanton spent roughly
120-548: Was also a member of the American Folklore Society, serving as its President in 1909. Swanton married Alice M. Barnard on Dec. 16, 1903, with whom he had three children: Mary Alice Swanton, John Reed Swanton, Jr., and Henry Allen Swanton. He died in Newton, Massachusetts , on May 2, 1958, at the age of 85. With James Owen Dorsey : Robert Bringhurst Too Many Requests If you report this error to
132-575: Was an American anthropologist , folklorist , and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory . He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest . Born in Gardiner, Maine , after the death of his father, Walter Scott Swanton, he
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#1732783447181144-511: Was raised by his mother, nÊe Mary Olivia Worcester, his grandmother, and his great aunt. From his mother, in particular, he was imbued with a gentle disposition, a concern for human justice, and a lifelong interest in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg . He was inspired to pursue history, and, more specifically, anthropology by his reading of William H. Prescott , The Conquest of Mexico. Swanton attended local schools and then entered Harvard University , earning an AB in 1896, an AM in 1897, and
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