A “tribe” became a group of people, any size, who lived together and called each other by the same designation. This book was born, but it took me more than twenty years and 200 boxes of index cards before I completed it.īecause anthropologists, linguists, and archaeologists have been discussing for years what a “tribe” is and what a “name” is, I chose to make my own simple definitions for this book. No longer trusting my memory, I wrote the information down on an index card.
I had read all those books but could not remember that the name was for the Chumash, definitely a well-known California tribe. This desperate young lady was sent to me by her frustrated branch librarian who could not find anything on what the textbook had dubbed “a wellknown tribe.” Two hours and over twenty books on California tribes later I found the variant spelling documented by the statechosen textbook. This was brought home to me by a junior high student who brought in her textbook with the spelling of a California tribe on which she had to do a report. But as I grew older, and the number of books I read skyrocketed, my memory started to fail me. Although I was annoyed by this state of affairs, I tended to rely on my “institutional memory” to recognize variations. There was little or no effort to pull the variations together into an organized crossreference.My own beloved Library of Congress subject headings chose and codified the standardization of many “recognized” tribes and ignored the rest. Governments mandated standardized names for tribes, and the resulting names had little or nothing to do with tribal selfdesignations or the names that their neighbors called them.Variant spellings of Native tribal names abounded, depending on the hearing, educational levels, and nationalities of the writers.There were in those writings footnotes that gave vital information, but it was not included in the few cross references that did exist.There were few cross references in books written before 1950.
Somewhere, very early on in my reading, I began to see the following patterns: I started my learning with them and read studies of many indigenous groups written by well-known, well-respected archaeologists and linguists. Among the thousands of books at my disposal were complete sets of the annual reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The range was from then to modern times and I was able to expand my knowledge greatly. These included hundreds of older outof-print books that had been written at the time of establishment of archaeology in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century when the West’s history began to be documented. While I was there, I was the unofficial expert of the Indians of North, Central and South America section of books, and what a collection it was! Books had been collected for years and I got to read most of them. The most fun I ever had occurred while I was working in the History/Genealogy Department of the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library. I work at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library as Reference Archivist (what’s in a name?) and am still referencing away. I have been a reference librarian for twenty-five years and have enjoyed my interaction with books, people, and computers.
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Preface 1 How to Use This Book 3 Abbreviations 5 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640 Contents Front cover: Sundancer ©2009 Shutterstock map background ©2009 Back cover: Arrowhead ©2009 Shutterstock Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Names, Geographical-America-Dictionaries.
Names, Ethnological-America- Dictionaries. Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-ReferencedĬlark, Patricia Roberts, 1948– Tribal names of the Americas : spelling variants and alternative forms, cross-referenced / Patricia Roberts Clark.
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