These interviews were conducted in 1941-1942 by members of the Oneida Nation employed by the WPA and the University of Wisconsin on a project to record personal narratives of Oneida life and culture.
No permissions to use individual interviews or to transfer intellectual property rights were solicited from interviewees or interviewers. Copyright to these interviews as well as rights to reproduce them may reside with the interviewer/interviewee or their descendants within the limits of Federal Copyright Law. Researchers bear the responsibility to determine the copyright status of individual interviews in order to gain permission for any reproduction beyond that stipulated by “Fair Use” consideration of the copyright law.
Additionally, researchers are reminded that interviews contain accounts of personal life and cultural practice whose publication or use without permission may not only violate Federal Copyright Law but may also violate Tribal law protecting indigenous works, as well as the privacy rights of interviewers/interviewees or their descendants.
