Arthur Caswell Parker
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Archaeology
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Historians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: Arthur Parker was a leading Native American figure in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and museum directorship and was also a prolific author.
Born on New York's Cattaraugus Indian Reservation with one-quarter part Seneca parentage, Parker was a great-nephew of Ely Samuel Parker, the secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. He was also a distant relative of the early nineteenth century Iroquois prophet Handsome Lake.
After studying at Dickinson Seminary in Pennsylvania, Parker enrolled at Harvard University,...
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