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Born on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York State, Arthur
Caswell Parker (1881-1955) was a prominent intellectual leader both
within and outside tribal circles. Of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and
Anglican descent, Parker was also a controversial figure-recognized
as an advocate for Native Americans but criticized for his
assimilationist stance. In this exhaustively researched
biography-the first book-length examination of Parker’s life and
career-Joy Porter explores complex issues of Indian identity that
are as relevant today as in Parker’s time. From childhood on,
Parker learned from his well-connected family how to straddle both
Indian and white worlds. His great-uncle, Ely S. Parker, was
Commissioner of Indian Affairs under Ulysses S. Grant--the first
Native American to hold the position. Influenced by family
role models and a strong formal education, Parker, who became
director of the Rochester Museum, was best known for his work as a
"museologist" (a word he coined). Porter shows that although Parker
achieved success within the dominant Euro-American culture, he was
never entirely at ease with his role as assimilated Indian and
voiced frustration at having "to play Indian to be Indian." In
expressing this frustration, Parker articulated a challenging
predicament for twentieth-century Indians: the need to negotiate
imposed stereotypes, to find ways to transcend those stereotypes,
and to assert an identity rooted in the present rather than in the
past.
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
Contributors Include Floyd G. Lounsbury, Mary R. Haas, William A.
Ritchie And Others.
Contributors Include Floyd G. Lounsbury, Mary R. Haas, William A.
Ritchie And Others.
For the Seneca Iroquois Indians, song is a crucial means of
renewing both medicine and heritage. Two or three times a year, the
Little Water Medicine Society of western New York meets to renew
the potency of its medicine bundles through singing. These bundles
have been inherited from eighteenth century Iroquois war parties,
handed down from generation to generation. In this long-awaited
book, William N. Fenton describes the remarkable ceremonies of one
of the least recorded but most significant medicine societies of
the Iroquois Indians. Most of the Senecas who were members of the
Little Water Society, or Society of Shamans, have passed away, and
their knowledge of ceremonial healing and spiritual renewal is
fading. Fenton has written this book to preserve knowledge of the
ceremonies and songs for the Iroquois people and as a contribution
to anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and American Indian
studies. In The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas, he
presents his original 1933 fieldwork, along with details from the
published and unpublished works of other researchers, to describe
rituals, poetry, and songs drawn from his more than six decades of
research among the Six Nations.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
From The Buffalo Historical Society Publications, V27.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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A definitive ethnological study of the Iroquois' subsistence,
religious traditions, laws, and customs.
Originally published as Bulletin 156 of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution in 1953, this volume explores
the celebration of the Eagle Dance in New York and Canada during
the 1930s and its relationship to the widespread Calumet Dance of
the 17th century. Also included is Kurath's detailed analysis of
the Eagle Dance music and choreography, based on Fenton's
recordings and on her own observations of local performances.
The Iroquois Book of Rites, the most noteworthy of Hale's studies
of the Iroquois, was translated and edited by him from two Indian
manuscripts found at Grand River, with the help of informants and
interpreters. The various parts of the Book of Rites throw valuable
light on the political and social life, as well as the character
and capacity, of the Iroquois. A long introduction by Hale contains
essays on the League, on the Book of Rites, on the Condoling
Council, and on the historical traditions, character, policy and
language of the Iroquois. Hale's important book has long been out
of print and in demand. It is reprinted here with a valuable
introduction on Hale and the significance of his work by William N.
Fenton of the New York State Museum and Science Service, University
of the State of New York.
William N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the
cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. Fenton
grounded his studies in decades of fieldwork among the Senecas, an
encyclopedic knowledge of pertinent historical accounts, a keen
appreciation for interpretive theory and practice in ethnohistory
and anthropology, and an enduring, generous character. "William
Fenton: Selected Writings" brings together for the first time
Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and
anthropology, written across nearly six decades. This volume
includes Fenton's classic studies of such key issues as Iroquois
folklore, factionalism, and the repatriation of material culture;
discussions of theory and practice and the methodology of
"upstreaming"; obituaries of colleagues and reviews of other
studies of the Iroquois; and summaries of the early Conferences on
Iroquois Research. This collection reveals much about the world of
the Iroquois, past and present, as well as the career and
accomplishments of Fenton himself.
During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the
study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the
religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois
confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American
Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the
Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of
life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations
Reserve in Ontario. Collaborating with Alexander General
(Deskaheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the
rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of
special interest are the medicine societies that not only
prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating
the underlying causes of sickness. In a new introduction, William
N. Fenton discusses Speck's distinguished career.
Iroquois Journey is the warm and illuminating memoir of William N.
Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies
and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the
ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of
the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of
Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth
century, and key theoretical and methodological developments in
American anthropology. Fenton's memoir, completed shortly before
his death, takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango
Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It affords
valuable insights into the decades of his celebrated fieldwork
among the Senecas, his distinguished scholarship at the Bureau of
American Ethnology in Washington, DC, and his research at the New
York State Museum in Albany. Offering portraits of legendary
scholars he encountered and enriched through wonderful personal
anecdotes, Fenton's memoir is a testament to the importance of
anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over
the years.
"Iroquois Journey" is the warm and illuminating memoir of William
N. Fenton (1908-2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois
studies and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the
ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of
the anthropologist, the complex and sometimes volatile milieu of
Native-white relations in upstate New York in the twentieth
century, and key theoretical and methodological developments in
American anthropology. Fenton's memoir, completed shortly before
his death, takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango
Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It affords
valuable insights into the decades of his celebrated fieldwork
among the Senecas, his distinguished scholarship at the Bureau of
American Ethnology in Washington, DC, and his research at the New
York State Museum in Albany. Offering portraits of legendary
scholars he encountered and enriched through wonderful personal
anecdotes, Fenton's memoir is a testament to the importance of
anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over
the years.
"An in-depth survey of Iroquois culture and history"
This masterful summary represents a major synthesis of the
history and culture of the Six Nations from the mid-sixteenth
century to the Canandaigua treaty of 1794. William N. Fenton,
renowned as the dean of Iroquoian studies, draws on primary
sources, in both French and English to create a readable narrative
and an invaluable reference for all future scholars of Iroquois
polity.
Central to Fenton's study is the tradition of the Great Law,
still practiced today by the conservative Iroquois. It is sustained
by celebrations of the condolence ceremony when participants mourn
a dead chief and install his successor for life on good behavior.
This ritual act, reaching back to the dawn of history, maintained
the League of the Iroquois, the legendary form of government that
gave way over time to the Iroquois Confederacy.
"On the Cattaraugus reservation, it was part of a child's initial
training to learn why the bear lost its tail, why the chipmunk has
a striped back, and why meteors flash in the sky," writes Arthur C.
Parker at the beginning of "Seneca Myths and Folk Tales," His blood
ties to the Senecas and early familiarity with their culture led to
a distinguished career as an archaeologist and to the publication
in 1923 of this pioneeering work. Parker recreates the milieu in
which the Seneca legends and folktales were told and discusses
their basic themes and components before going on to relate more
than seventy of them that he heard as a boy. Here is the magical
Senecan world populated by unseen good and evil spirits, ghosts,
and beings capable of transformation. Included are creation myths;
folktales involving contests between mortal youths and assorted
powers; tales of love and marriage; and stories about cannibals,
talking animals, pygmies, giants, monsters, vampires, and witches.
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