Gladys Tantaquidgeon

Gladys Tantaquidgeon (* June 15, 1899; † November 1, 2005 in Uncasville, Connecticut ) was an American anthropologist, matriarch and medicine woman of indigenous origin ( Mohegan ).

Life and work

As a descendant of the Mohegan sachem Uncas Tantaquidgeon grew up traditionally. From 1919 she began studying anthropology at Frank Bacon at the University of Pennsylvania. Time of their life that stretches over three centuries, it was committed to the preservation of indigenous languages ​​, arts and customs.

Works

  • A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction

PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION, Harrisburg, 1942 digitized version; New version: Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, 1972

  • Delaware Indian art designs, Pennsylvania archaeologist, v. 20, p. 24-30. , 1950
  • Newly Discovered straw basketry of the Wampanoag Indians of Massachusetts, Indian notes. v.7, no.4, 1930
  • Notes on the origin and uses of plants of the Lake St. John Montagnais, New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 197 -?
  • Notes on Mohegan - Pequot basketry designs, Washington, DC, 1933
  • Notes on the Gay Head Indians of Massachusetts, INDIAN NOTES 7 ( 1) :1- 26th, 1930
  • Native tribes and dialects of Connecticut, co - working with Frank G Speck, Washington, DC: Govt. Print. Off. , 1928
  • How the Summer Season What Brought North, The Journal of American Folklore, V54 n213/214: 203-204, 1941
  • Notes on the Origin and Uses of Plants of the Lake St. John Montagnais, The Journal of American Folklore, v45 n176: 265-267, 1932
  • Death Notices, by Robert E Bell; H Millard Clements; James Michael Elam; Fei Xiaotong; Anthony Galt (Tony); Mary Margaret Wolfskill and Dr. Tantaquidgeon, Anthropology News, v47 n3: 28-30, 2006
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