Excerpt from Iroquois Folk Lore, Gathered From the Six Nations of New York
At the request of this Association, now sixty years old, I select for my last publication some things from my large collection of Iroquois folk lore which may interest some, and which comes from many sources.
As a charter member of the American Folk Lore Society in 1888, I had two papers in its first volume, and continued this for many years, Indian themes being in demand. My first important public work of this kind was of a material nature, gradually approaching my present theme. Mr. Arthur C. Parker, my successor, went farther in this, and I have freely quoted from his admirable publications.
The Bureau of Ethnology takes in a larger field, mainly in the West, and with a large staff, but in its second volume (1883) published Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith's "Myths of the Iroquois." She was a native of Marcellus, N. Y. Later the Bureau has published bi-lingual Onondaga, Mohawk and Seneca myths (vol. 21) by J. N. B. Hewitt, who aided Mrs. Smith.
The Dutch told of Indian customs and superstitions, mostly Algonquin. The Jesuits had written so much of a kindred people in Canada, that here they said little. The English knew little of the upper Iroquois till late in the 17th century. After the Revolution there was more direct contact and more became known.
The Iroquois Trail And David Cusick
When the Iroquois learned to speak and write English he found they had much to tell. David Cusick, 1825, the uscarora, first threw a lurid light on his people through his pictures and tales. My "Iroquois Trail," 1892, contains his history, and Mrs. Smith included some tales and four pictures. His chronology is a "long, long trail," in which Onondaga often appears.
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