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His chapter on "Basic Premises" isolates themes, motifs, in-
cidents, and personages. His foreword hints at distinctions be-
tween "tales" (ka?ka:9), legends, and true myths. His chapter
on the "Gods, etc" covers cosmology and religion aptly. He then
treats "themes" systematically, as well as "incidents" and "ob-
jects." The components of the cosmological myth have since
been overhauled. 14 His classification of Seneca folklore is best
seen in the table of contents. The bibliography reveals impor-
tant works that he sought to emulate. And bless him for the
index.

Such material can no longer be had on the reservations.
Television has completely supplanted cycles of tales such as
Skanawundi and Turtle's War Party. This entire genre of oral
literature was already disappearing in the 1930a which I began
field work and it has since gone the long trail.

Slingerlands, New York
26 January 1989 (in the moon of Niskowakneh)


NOTES
1. Lewis Henry Morgan, The League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or
Iroquois ( Rochester, N.Y.: Sage, 1851).
2. William N. Fenton, Introduction to Parker on the Iroquois ( Syr-
acuse University Press, 1968), p. 6; W. Stephen Thomas, "Arthur Ca-
swell Parker: 1881-1955," Rochester History, vol. 17 ( July, 1955): 1-
20. For Parker's place in the intellectual history of his day, see Hazel W. Hertzberg
, "Arthur C. Parker, Seneca," in American Indian In-
tellectuals, ed. Margot Liberty, 1976 Proceedings of the American
Ethnological Society (St. Paul: West Publishing Co.), pp. 129-38. Wil-
liam A. Ritchie, Emeritus New York State Archaeologist, who began
his career under Parker at Rochester, contributed the biography to
Dictionary of American Biography, supplement, vol. 5 ( 1951- 1955):
533-34.
3. Parker wrote about his grandfather's several roles in The Life
of General Ely S. Parker ( Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Historical Society,
1919), p. 198.

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