This is the definitive one-volume guide to the Indian tribes of North America, and it covers all groupings such as nations, confederations, tribes, subtribes, clans, and bands. Formatted as a dictionary, or gazetteer, and organized by state, it includes all known tribal groupings within the state and the many villages where they were located. The text includes such facts as the origin of the tribal name and a brief list of the more important synonyms; the linguistic connections of the tribe; its location; a brief sketch of its history; its population at different periods; and the extent to which its name has been perpetuated geographically.
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GREAT introduction with heaps of information.,
By Travis C. Ward "C. William Anderson" (Silverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Indian Tribes of North America (Hardcover)
It has become fashionable for politicians to ridicule government spending and waste. Certainly there are occasions when employees have squandered funds on research, but in the early days of our republic such was not the case.This book, combined with the two-part HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIANS (Bulletin 30 issued by The Bureau of American Ethnology) are great compilations that could only have been funded by the federal government. In dollars and cents no private concern could expect a fair return on their investment that would have been necessary to get the results that was accomplished. You will have to search long to find the books. Amazon might be of much help. I, however, found my copies at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon. Contrary to many depictions by Hollywood, many American pioneers fought to defend the rights of Native Americans. Much of America wept for many of the dispossessed peoples - there were fewer of the vigilante types than you would suppose. I am using these books to compile a web site in Acrobat but expect this project to take a couple years. While you wait, beg, borrow or steal all three books if you want to get a solid, unbiased understanding of the lifestyles of a forgotten people - Bill Anderson.
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This review is from: The Indian Tribes of North America (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 145.) (Hardcover)
The author summarizes this work as follows: the objective of this work is to "inform the general reader what Indian tribes occupied the territory of his State and to add enough data to indicate the place they occupied among the tribal groups of the continent and the part they played in the early period of our history and the history of the States immediately to the north and south of us. It attempts to be rather a gazetteer of present knowledge than a guide to the attainment of more knowledge."
Indeed, this is a "gazetteer" type reference. Each State in the U.S. is covered as well as regions of Canada, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies including: Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. An outline is fleshed out for categories about the tribes associated with each geographic region. This information was extracted from historical records recorded by colonists, explorers and exploiters, and scholars; therefore, the scope of study begins in the 1500's for some regions and as late as 1700's for others. The outline includes: TRIBES associated with that region; [linguistic] CONNECTIONS to other tribes; LOCATION of places inhabited (described by modern-day towns, rivers and landmarks); SUBDIVISIONS (tribes that divided from these main-heading tribes that were described in greater detail); VILLAGES (names and approximate locations); HISTORY (includes mention of historical accounts recorded by colonists, historians, and scholars but this is very sketchy information, providing little more that a sentence to tell about conflicts or interactions with other tribes or settlers, treaties signed and broken, relocation to reservations, decimation factors such as disease, loss of land, wars, etc.); POPULATION (based on census records as well as records left by explorers, and so on. It links decimated populations to wars and disease when possible); CONNECTION IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN NOTED (might include wars; size and/or power; individuals whose name is well-known; cultural recognition-- carvings, ceremonies, tools, etc.; names of counties, towns, rivers, and other landmarks with which this tribe is associated). For what it is, this is an excellent resource; however, this is not an in-depth history of tribes. (How COULD it be? It's already 726 pages long!) It is an in-depth overview of tribes inhabiting these regions over the course of a few hundred years. My only disappointment is that Swanton failed to mention some rather landmark events (Sioux uprising in 1863, for example). The author does note that another text, Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America," written by Professor Kroeber, "aims to... review the environmental relations of the native cultures of North America"... and to "examine the historic relations of the culture areas, or geographical units of cultures." Kroeber's text is written for the college student, not the layman.
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This review is from: The Indian Tribes of North America (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology), 145.) (Hardcover)
This book is a classic reference for students of indigenous people of the continent. I am very satisfied with it.
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