John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt

John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 – October 14, 1937)[1] was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages.

[2] Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York.

[3] His parents were Harriet and David;[4] his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family.

He then applied to the institution for employment to complete the Tuscarora-English dictionary he had begun with Smith.

[6] Hewitt's prolific researches, including studies of Iroquois mythology[7] and language, were compiled in his well-known "Iroquois Cosmology"[8] which was published in two parts, 1903 and 1928.