Laurence Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he has been coordinator of the Native American studies program since 1974. Since 1989 Hauptman has been general editor of the “Iroquois and Their Neighbors” book series published by Syracuse University Press. A recipient of many awards for his scholarship and service, Hauptman has testified and prepared public policy research reports regarding Seneca Nation land issues for the U.S. Senate, the New York Governor’s office, and the Seneca Nation. A prolific author, his most recent book is Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (Syracuse University Press, 1999) and he is currently preparing a book-length research project on “Daniel Bread and the Transplanting of Oneida Indian Existence from New York to Wisconsin, 1800-1873.”

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