John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt

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John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (18591937) was a linguist and ethnographer of Tuscarora and Scottish descent. He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology, a part of the Smithsonian Institution, from 1886 to 1937. He specialized in Iroquoian languages, and was a prolific researcher. Hewitt is best known for his "Iroquois Cosmology" which was published in two parts, 1903 and 1928.


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