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John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt -LRB- December 16 , 1859 -- October 14 , 1937 -RRB- was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages .. linguist. linguistics. ethnographer. ethnographer. Iroquoian. Iroquoian languages. Native American languages. Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston , New York .. Tuscarora Indian Reservation. Tuscarora Indian Reservation. Tuscarora. Tuscarora ( tribe ). His mother was of Tuscarora , French , Oneida , and Scottish descent , his father of English and Scottish , but raised in a Tuscarora family .. Tuscarora. Tuscarora ( tribe ). French. French people. Oneida. Oneida tribe. Scottish. Scottish people. English. English people. His parents raised him speaking the English language , but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport , he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language .. Tuscarora. Tuscarora ( tribe ). English. English people. English language. English language. Wilson. Wilson, New York. Lockport. Lockport ( city ), New York. Tuscarora language. Tuscarora language. In 1880 , he was hired by Erminnie A. Smith of the Smithsonian Institution 's Bureau of Ethnology -LRB- now the Bureau of American Ethnology -RRB- , as an assistant ethnologist .. Erminnie A. Smith. Erminnie A. Smith. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Bureau of Ethnology. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bureau of American Ethnology. ethnologist. ethnologist. He worked with Smith for several years until her death in 1886 .. He then applied to the institution for employment to complete the Tuscarora-English dictionary he had begun with Smith .. Tuscarora. Tuscarora ( tribe ). English. English people. He moved to Washington DC where he would work as an ethnologist until his death in 1937 .. ethnologist. ethnologist. Washington DC. Washington DC. He worked on the dictionary throughout his life , but it was not published during his lifetime .. -LRB- It was later edited and published as the Tuscarora-English / English-Tuscarora dictionary . -RRB-. Tuscarora. Tuscarora ( tribe ). English. English people. In 1914 he was awarded the Cornplanter Medal .. Cornplanter Medal. Cornplanter Medal. Hewitt 's prolific researches included studies of Iroquois mythology and language were compiled in his well-known `` Iroquois Cosmology '' which was published in two parts , 1903 and 1928 .. Iroquois. Iroquois