I read more than a few posts, emails, bulletin board messages that no one was hurt by the a plagiarist but the plagiarist herself. In reading about the authors of the works that were copied, I couldn’t help but to be moved by their individual stories and how important their contribution was to society, even beyond their individual works. There are a few of the victims and here are some of their stories, in no particular order.
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Caswell Parker
Arthur Caswell Parker authored 14 books and over 300 articles from 1900 to 1959. He was born in 1881 of a Seneca father and a Scottish-English mother. Parker enrolled in Harvard but would never graduate. Instead, he embarked on a career of archeology, exploring his Seneca legacy by excavating a number of his people’s sites. He tirelessly worked to preserve the Iroquois heritage through archeology, museum preservation, and his literary work.
The Society of American Archeology established the Arthur C Parker Scholarship “for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians . . . to support training in archaeological methods, including fieldwork, analytical techniques, and curation for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians.” …
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