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- ↑ Curtin, Jeremiah; Hewitt, J.N.B. (1918). "Seneca Fiction, Legengs, and Myths". Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: 376. Retrieved Aug 18, 2018.
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