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New York Indians on the 18th day of September, in the year 1891, 

 at the Condolence held on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. 

 And she is therefore recognized as one of their Chiefs — to look 

 after the interest of the Six Nations & also is recognized as Ya-ie- 

 wa-noh. 



Witness Principal Chiefs 



Rev. Albert Cusick his 



Vice President Mr Abram (x) Hill 



Six Nations mark 



Thomas Williams 

 Thomas Webster 

 his 



Baptist (x) Thomas 

 mark 



President of Six Nations, Daniel La Forte 



The chiefs of the Six Nations of Canada then invited her to 

 honor them with a visit and once again she was received with 

 an ovation. 



After this culmination of honors her Seneca friend, Do-ne-ha- 

 ga-wah (Gen. Ely S. Parker) wrote: 



I am extremely delighted to receive your brief note telling how 

 bountifully honors have been showered upon you by the remnants 

 of the Iroquois, both in New York and Canada. You deserve these 

 honors empty and shadowy though they be and a great deal more, 

 for the service you have rendered them. Accept, please, my 

 hearty congratulations on your triumphal tour among these simple 

 but honest hearted children of our ancient forests. 



The people you have been visiting have never been understood 

 nor fully comprehended. I say that to study them satisfactorily 

 needs a life time and at the end of life one has hardly begun the 

 study. The study of the race is extremely kaleidoscopic. Your 

 opportunities have been grand and rare. You have improved 

 them well, and today are the best informed woman on Indian lore 

 in America. 



Mrs Converse continued her studies and wrote many interesting 

 articles about the Indians and Indian lore for the newspapers of 

 the country. 



The death of General Parker in 1895 was the first great sorrow 

 which Mrs Converse had experienced since the commencement of 

 her active interest in Indians and for a long period she mourned 

 the loss of the friend whose counsel and suggestions had been an 

 inspiration. 



Starting out to carry on the labors and researches of her father 

 Hon. Thomas Maxwell, she now had as a legacy the work and 

 plans which General Parker left. He had been a stanch friend of 

 his people, an able sachem and a true Seneca. His counsel had been 



