Arthur Caswell Parker

Read poems by this poet

Arthur Caswell Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. He published under his Seneca name Gawasa Wanneh or Alnoba Wabunaki, and in 1911 was one of the founders of the Society of American Indians, where he served as secretary and president. From 1925 until 1946, he worked as director of the Rochester Museum. He died in 1955.