A full-blood,[4] she never learned English, but was trilingual in Natchez, Cherokee and Muscogee.
[5] In 1907 she worked with anthropologist John R. Swanton who collected information about Natchez religion, and in the 1930s she worked extensively with linguist Mary R. Haas who collected grammatical information and texts using an interpreter.
[1] Among the stories she told Mary Haas was one called "The Woman Who Was a Fox".
She had one son Adam Levi from her first marriage, with her second husband Will Taylor (Cherokee, d.
[6][7] Among the Natchez, the language was generally passed down matrilineally, but at her death Nancy Raven had no surviving children, her only son Adam Levi having died from tuberculosis at age 20 in 1915.