Watt Sam

[2] Around 1907 he worked with anthropologist John R. Swanton who collected information about Natchez religion.

For some of passages in the narratives that had sexual content, Swanton only provided a translation into Latin.

[4] In the 1930s he worked with linguist Mary Haas who collected grammatical information and texts.

In 1931, anthropologist Victor Riste made several wax cylinder recordings of Watt Sam speaking the Natchez language, which were rediscovered at the University of Chicago in the 1970s by Archie Sam and linguist Charles Van Tuyl.

[7][8] In some of his stories he used a register of Natchez that he referred to as "Cannibal language" in which he substituted some words with others.