Skunny Wundy: Seneca Indian Tales, Expanded Edition
About this ebook
This expanded edition includes a new preface by Hayden Haynes and Joy Porter that places the collection in its full cultural and historical context, from Parker’s complex legacy to the enduring relevance of these tales as pathways to intercultural understanding and wisdom. Far from relics of the past, these Seneca stories, as retold by Parker, foster awareness that we exist in kinship with all beings on Earth.
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About the author
Arthur C. Parker (1881–1955), a renowned anthropologist and folklorist, was born on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in western New York State. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the New York State Museum at Albany, and the Rochester
Museum of Arts and Sciences.
Hayden Haynes is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Deer Clan. He currently serves as the director of the Seneca Nation Onöhsagwë:de' Cultural Center, located on the Seneca-Allegany Territory in what is now western New York.
Joy Porter is a professor of Indigenous and environmental history at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker.
Cover art by Seneca artist Randee Spruce. She studied studio arts and museum studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has received received recognition and awards at juried art shows across the U.S.
