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Oral histories of Oneida lives

….Herbert Lewis, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, made the discovery and selected 65 chronicles that give a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II.

These histories are edited by Lewis in a new book, “Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas” (University of Nebraska Press, 2005; paperback, $29.95).

The original study was conducted through the UW.