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returned to Oklahoma in mid-June 1962 to continue this work. In 

 August he spent a few days with Dr. Sturtevant at the Seneca-Cayuga 

 Green Corn Dance and was able to locate a few speakers of Wyandot, 

 a language that had been thought to be extinct. 



Between September and May Dr. Chafe worked at the Bureau on 

 a half-time basis, teaching courses on several linguistic subjects at 

 Catholic and Georgetown Universities. At Georgetown he worked 

 with a speaker of Winnebago and hopes eventually to prepare some 

 descriptive material on that language. Through this study he was 

 led to pursue further some facts suggestive of a remote relationship 

 between the Siouan, Caddoan, and Iroquoian language families. 

 During the fall he continued his survey of the present number of 

 speakers of North American Indian languages, the results of which 

 are being published in the Intematiorml Journal of AmeHcan 

 Linguistics. He read papers at the International Conference on 

 Iroquoian Studies at Hamilton, Ontario, in October, and at the Annual 

 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadel- 

 phia in November. He was program chairman for the spring meeting 

 of the American Etlinological Society in Washington in April and 

 edited the papers read at the meeting for publication. Durmg the 

 late spring he spent several weeks continumg work on a Seneca dic- 

 tionary. 



Eobert M. Laughlin, ethnologist specializing in the Middle Ameri- 

 can area, joined the staff of the Bureau on June 11, 1962. He spent 

 the remaining days of the fiscal year in research on the Huastec of 

 Veracruz and San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in preparation for an article 

 for the Handbook of Middle American Indians, to be published by 

 the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University. 



RIVER BASIN SURVEYS 



During fiscal 1962 the River Basin Surveys unit continued its pro- 

 gram for salvage archeology in areas to be flooded or otherwise 

 destroyed by the construction of large dams. The work as in previous 

 years was carried on in cooperation with the National Park Service 

 and the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, the 

 Corps of Engineers of the Department of the Army, and a number 

 of State and local institutions. An increase in funds that became 

 available late in the year made possible an expansion in the program. 

 During 1961-62 the investigations were supported by a transfer of 

 $231,705 from the National Park Service and a grant of $2,000 from 

 the Appalachian Power Co. The funds from the National Park 

 Service were for use in the Missouri Basin and along the Chatta- 

 hoochee River, Alabama-Georgia. The grant from the Appalachian 

 Power Co. was to provide for an archeological survey in the area along 



