A narrated overview of various features of the Seneca language, including its vocabulary, phonetics, grammar, discursive patterns, and relation to other languages. Primarily in English, with some Seneca. Includes a brief recording of counting in Wyandot.

An anthropologist and student of Native American cultures, Elisabeth Tooker devoted a long career, much of it as a professor at Temple University, to study of the culture and ethnohistory of the Haudenosaunee of New York State. The Tooker Papers is arranged in six series, and contain her correspondence, subject files, research notes, and both published and unpublished papers.