But the acknowledgment was in the prefatory matter, and the primary authorship was Morgan’s.

The scholarly credit, the career advancement, and the royalties flowed to Morgan.

The knowledge that made the book possible had come primarily from Parker and the community he gave Morgan access to.

This dynamic was not unique to Parker and Morgan — it characterized the broader relationship between non-Native ethnologists and the Native communities they studied throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century.

Native people provided essential knowledge, access, and labor; non-Native scholars received the credit and the institutional rewards.