Horatio Hale | |
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| Born | Horatio Emmons Hale May 3, 1817 |
| Died | December 28, 1896 Clinton, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | ethnology |
Horatio Emmons Hale (May 3, 1817 – December 28, 1896) was an American-Canadian ethnologist, philologist and businessman. He is known for his study of languages as a key for classifying ancient peoples and being able to trace their migrations.[1]
Hale was the first to analyze and confirm that the Tutelo language of some Virginia Native Americans belonged to the Siouan family, which was most associated with the western Dakota and Hidatsa languages.[1]
Hale also determined that the Cherokee language spoken by a tribe associated with the Appalachian Mountains and upland areas of the interior American Southeast was one of the Iroquoian family of languages.[1] Most of the speakers of the latter had historically occupied territory to the east and south of the Great Lakes, in present-day New York and Pennsylvania. In addition, he published a work, Iroquois Book of Rites (1883),[2] based on his translation of their only two known historic manuscripts.[3] It was supported by his studies with tribal elders in interpreting the Iroquois wampum belts to establish the people's prehistory.
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DCBOwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hale, Horatio (1883). The Iroquois book of rites. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton. OCLC 977330850.
- ^ Gruber, Jacob W. (1967). "Horatio Hale and the Development of American Anthropology". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 111 (1): 5–37. ISSN 0003-049X. JSTOR 985751.