William Fenton

William N. Fenton (1908–2005) is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. He is coeditor (with Jack Campisi) of William N. Fenton's Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers (Nebraska 2007) and is coeditor of Gideon's People, a two-volume set (Nebraska 2009). Jack Campisi is an independent consultant and coeditor of Extending the Rafters: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Iroquoian Studies.

• IntroductionFenton Papers--PrécisGeneral WorksIroquois Indian Folklore (1947)Letters to an Ethnologist's Children: From Simeon Gibson to the Children of William N. Fenton Who Took Them Down (1948)The Training of Historical Ethnologists in America (1952)Cultural Stability and Change in American Indian Societies (1953)The Hyde de Neuville Portraits of New York Savages in 1807–1808 (1954)"This Island, the World on the Turtle's Back" (1962)"Anthropology and the University": An Inaugural Lecture (1969)Return to the Longhouse (1972)The Advancement of Material Culture Studies in Modern Anthropological Research (1974)The Iroquois in the Grand Tradition of American Letters: The Works of Walter D. Edmonds, Carl Carmer, and Edmund Wilson (1981)Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada (1989)He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan (2001)Book ReviewsThe Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations by George T. Hunt (1940)Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century by Allen W. Trelease (1961)Conservatism among the Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve by Annemarie Anrod Shimony (1963)"Huronia: An Essay in Proper Ethnohistory," a review of The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger (1978)The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter (1994)ObituariesSimeon Gibson: Iroquois Informant, 1889–1943 (1944)Twí-yendagon' (Woodeater) Takes the Heavenly Path: On the Death of Henry Redeye (1864–1946), Speaker of the Coldspring Seneca Longhouse (1946)John Reed Swanton, 1873–1958 (1959)Howard Sky, 1900–1971: Cayuga Faith-Keeper, Gentleman, and Interpreter of Iroquois Culture (1972)Conference on Iroquois ResearchConference on Iroquois Research (1947)Fourth Conference on Iroquois Research (1948)Seventh Conference on Iroquois Research (1952)Iroquois Research (1956)History and Purposes of the Conference on Iroquois Research (1967)Iroquois Research Conference after 25 Years (1969)Index

"This must-read memoir provides valuable insights for those interested in the twentieth-century Iroquois, ethnographic field methods, or the history of anthropology."—Denis Foley, Journal of Anthropological Research