Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), July 13th, 2005
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-13-2005 On June 17, Dr. William (Bill) Fenton, 96, elder anthropologist and dean of "Iroquoianists," passed into the spirit world. Then - serendipitously - on July 4, The New York Times carried a fine piece by author Charles C. Mann, "The Founding Sachems," about the likely impact of American Indian traditions, particularly the Iroquois Great Law of Peace, on the new American "nation's democratic spirit."
The elements braid together. Fenton, the old-school anthropologist, already a mature scholar by the early 1940s, grew up around Seneca and Tuscarora ...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'Bill Fenton and the Iroquois'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
Subscribers: HighBeam content is only available to HighBeam subscribers. Click the link above for more information.
