Editing Oneida language (section)

===Written history of Oneida===
The written historical record of the Oneida has largely been written by outside individuals in foreign languages, either English or French. The script used for Oneida writing was developed by French missionaries,<ref name="nvtc"/> but writing by Oneida individuals is extant only from relatively recent years and is nearly exclusively in English. Prior writings about Oneida language and people recorded oral narratives, and even these accounts dropped off about 1930.<ref>{{harvp|Wonderley|2004|pp=xiv–xvi}}</ref> It is only since the 1980s that the Oneida themselves have employed writing, in any language, at least in a public context, and much of this stems from the legal battles of the Nation. ''The Creation Story'' by Elm & Antone is the only book written in Oneida in major publication, and much of the scholarship underlying this work, while certainly in collaboration with Oneida speakers, was done in English.<ref>e.g. {{harvp|Elm|Antone|2000|pp=7–27}}</ref>