Arthur K Parker

Indian How Book

Red Jacket, Seneca Chief

Skunny Wundy

Parker on the Iroquois

Skunny Wundy

Indian How Book

The Monongahela: River of Dreams, River of Sweat

The Springboks, 1891-1970

Sadhu Sundar Singh, Called of God

Sadhu Sundar Singh was a well-known Christian mystic in India during the early 20th century. He walked from place to place preaching the gospel and lived without possessions. He had many dreams and visions. He suffered much from poverty and persecution, but won many converts. He eventually travele...

Red Jacket: Seneca Chief

This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca. 1750–1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant and Cornplanter. Red Jacket received a medal fro...

The Indian How Book (Dover Children's Classics)

Enhanced by 51 illustrations, this eye-opening work tells how Native Americans made fire, teepees, bark houses, canoes, war bonnets, animal traps, fishhooks, arrowheads, wampum, masks, colors, rawhide, baskets, poetry, hats, and moccasins, plus how they courted, married, treated women, walked, bathe...

The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet (Forgotten Books)

Handsome Lake (1735-1815) was a religious reformer among the Iroquois, the prominent alliance of New York tribes. His 'Code', presented in this book in full, attempted to simplify the spiritual practices of the Iroquois, preaching temperance, a strict moral code, and self-determination. It also cont...

Seneca Myths and Folk Tales

"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 fam...

American Indian Freemasonry (Classic Reprint)

In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Genesis. Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. Solomon. Speculative masonry is so far interwoven with religion as to lay us under the strongest obligations to pay that rational homage to theD eity, which at once constitutes our dut...

Parker on the Iroquois (New York State Studies (Syracuse Univ))

A definitive ethnological study of the Iroquois' subsistence, religious traditions, laws, and customs.