Compiled from the records of the first fifty years of its existence; also biographies of the warrant members and past masters of Lodge 476, with a complete list of members
by Percy Jewett Burrell, master of the pageant; Alice Kraft, associate and dance director; Harry A. Sykes ... composer and musical director; presented by the people of the city and county of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, June 24th, 25th and 26th, 1929, 7:45 o'clock in the evening.
"The author,John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt (December 16, 1859 - October 14, 1937) , was a linguist and ethnographer who specialized in Iroquoian and other Native American languages. Hewitt was born on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation near Lewiston, New York. His parents were Harriet and David; his mother was of Tuscarora, French, Oneida, and Scottish descent, his father of English and Scottish, but raised in a Tuscarora family. His parents raised him speaking the English language, but when he left the reservation to attend schools in Wilson and Lockport, he learned to speak the Tuscarora language from other students who spoke the language." [from Wikipedia]
Summary
Discussion of the formation of the Iroquois League by five separate native American tribes ( Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ) in 16th century America.
Percy Jewett Burrell, pageant director and co-author with Laura F. Kready and H. Clifton Thorbahn. Presented upon Williamson athletic field by the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1926.
Label attached to t.-p.: This volume, subsequently expanded by the results of further research, was a dissertation submitted to the Graduate board of Clark university ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy ... [1926]
