Resources

Lena Snow translates words provided by the interviewer into the Seneca language. Recorded by Harold Hickerson in 1950 at Allegany Indian Reservation, NY (6 minutes and 38 seconds, Mss.Rec.13 from the American Philosophical Society).

Pat Johnson speaks in Onondaga, and Lucenda George gives an English translation. Recorded by Fred Lukoff in August 1950 at Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York (6 minutes and 46 seconds, Mss.Rec.3 from the American Philosophical Society).

Opening Address recited in Oneida by Venus Walker and recorded by Floyd G. Lounsbury in April 1984 in Southwold, Ontario (12 minutes and 39 seconds, Mss.Ms.Coll.95.Cassettes.10 from the American Philosophical Society).

A story read by Marjorie Printup about how people talk to one another and where they live. She gives an explanation of how she created sentences for understanding. Recorded by Floyd G. Lounsbury on July 30, 1991 (7 minutes and 22 seconds, Mss.Ms.Coll.95.Cassettes.08 from the American Philosophical Society).

Once, not long ago, four Iroquois hunters spent the winter together trapping in the north. They had good luck. When they brought their furs to the trading post at the end of the season, they had more than enough to buy all the things they needed for their families. In fact, there was just enough left over to buy a new rifle.

One day a Skarure family went hunting. The father and mother took their son and daughter with them as they headed out from their home on a long hunting trip. The first they had to make was a hunting lodge of wood poles that they covered with large sheets of bark. In the front, they made an enclosed entrance. The father was a good hunter and it was not long before the front entrance was full of deer and bear meat that was dried and cured.