This paper was originally presented at a symposium on "Continuity and Change in American Anthropology, 1880-1920" at the American Anthropological Association Meetings in November, 1968.

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Papers is arranged in six series, and contain her correspondence, subject files, research notes, and both published and unpublished papers.