John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt

John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 – October 14, 1937) was an American linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. )

In 1914 he was awarded the Cornplanter Medal.

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

Hewitt died on October 14, 1937, at his home on East Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. He was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.