the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, where he developed the museum holdings and its research in the emerging fields of anthropology, natural history, geology, biology, history and industry of the Genesee Region. During the 1930s and the Great Depression, he also directed the WPA-funded Indian Arts Project, which was sponsored by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. In 1935, Parker was elected the first President of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1944, Parker helped found the National Congress of American Indians. Legacy and honors Honorary trustee of the New York Historical Association 1914–1915, President of the Society of American Indians 1935, first president of the Society of American Archeology 1940 Union College awarded him an honorary doctorate Since 1998, the Society for American Archaeology has annually awarded the Arthur C. Parker Scholarship, which provides funds to Native Americans for training in archaeological methods. Retirement After retiring from directing the Rochester museum in 1946, Parker became very active in Indian affairs. He moved to Nunda-wah-oh, near present-day Naples, New York, where he felt his ancestors had lived. There he overlooked Canandaigua Lake. He died there on New Year's Day, 1955, aged 73. Publications Excavations in an Erie Indian village and burial site at Ripley, Chautauqua Co., NY, New York State Museum Bulletin 117:459–554. 1907 Secret Medicine Societies of the Seneca, American Anthropologist, n.s., 11:161–185. April–June, 1909 Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, New York State Museum Bulletin 144:5–119. 1910 Additional Notes on Iroquois Silversmithing, American Anthropologist, n.s., 13:283–293. April–June, 1911 The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet, New York State Museum Bulletin 163: 5–148. November, 1912 The Constitution of the Five Nations, New York State Museum Bulletin 184:7-188. April 1, 1916 The Socials Elements of the Indian Problem, The American Journal of Sociology, 22:252–267. September, 1916 The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggested by Their Archeology , American Anthropologist, n.s., 18:479–507. October–December, 1916 Life of General Ely S. Parker: Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's Military Secretary, Buffalo Historical Society, (Buffalo, New York), Publications, 23:14-346. 1919 The Mound Builder Culture in New York, New York State Museum Bulletin 219/220:283-292, March–April, 1919. Fifteenth report of the director. The New York Indian Complex and How to Solve It, N.Y. State Archaeological Assoc. Lewis H. Morgan Chapter. Researches and Transactions, Vol. 2, No. 1. 1920. 20p. The Archaeological History of New York, Albany [The University of the