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Full Name: William N. Fenton
Biography:
(1908-2005) Scholar, author. William N. Fenton was born in New Rochelle, New York, and died in Cooperstown, New York. He was an expert on the Iroquois culture.
Author's Timeline:
1908 Westchester County
William Nelson Fenton was born in New Rochelle, New York, on December 15, 1908. 
1956 Albany County
Mr. Fenton became director of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York, in 1956. 
1968 Albany County
Mr. Fenton taught at the State University of New York at Albany from 1968 until his retirement in 1979. 
1998 (Unknown) County
The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois
(Pub: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806130032 / 978-0806130033 )
Nonfiction. 
2009 (Unknown) County
William Fenton: Selected Writings
(Pub: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803216076 / 978-0803216075 )
Nonfiction. 
1953 (Unknown) County
The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance
(Pub: United States Government Printing Office ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1984 (Unknown) County
Masked Medicine Societies Of The Iroquois
(Pub: Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1941 (Unknown) County
Tonawanda Longhouse Ceremonies: Ninety Years After Lewis Henry Morgan
(Pub: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
2007 (Unknown) County
Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers
(Pub: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803220219 / 978-0803220218 )
Nonfiction. 
1987 (Unknown) County
The False Faces of the Iroquois
(Pub: University of Oklahoma Pres ISBN: 0806120398 / 978-0806120393 )
Nonfiction. 
2002 (Unknown) County
The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas
(Pub: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 080613447X / 978-0806134475 )
Nonfiction. 
1950 (Unknown) County
The Roll Call of the Iroquois Chiefs: A Study of a Mnemonic Cane from the Six Nations Reserve
(Pub: Ams Pr Inc ISBN: 0404155367 / 978-0404155360 )
Nonfiction. 
1942 (Unknown) County
Contacts Between Iroquois Herbalism And Colonial Medicine
Nonfiction. 
2005 Otsego County
William N. Fenton died in Cooperstown, New York, on June 17, 2005. 
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