Tribal Names of the Americas

Informationen zum Autor The late Patricia Roberts Clark was a reference archivist in the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University and a public librarian for a quarter century. Klappentext Scholars have long worked to identify the names of tribes and other groupings in the Americas, a task made difficult by the sheer number of indigenous groups and the many names that have been passed down only through oral tradition. This book is a compendium of tribal names in all their variants--from North, Central and South America--collected from printed sources. Because most of these original sources reproduced words that had been encountered only orally, there is a great deal of variation. Organized alphabetically, this book collates these variations, traces them to the spellings and forms that have become standardized, and supplies see and see also references. Each main entry includes tribal name, the parent group or ancestral tribe, original source for the tribal name, and approximate location of the name in the original source material. Zusammenfassung Offers an index of tribal names collected from printed sources on indigenous peoples in the New World. This book features various entries that include the tribal name! the tribe's 'parent group' or ancestral tribe! the original source for the tribal name! and the approximate location of the name in the original source material.

Autorentext
The late Patricia Roberts Clark was a reference archivist in the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University and a public librarian for a quarter century.

Klappentext
Scholars have long worked to identify the names of tribes and other groupings in the Americas, a task made difficult by the sheer number of indigenous groups and the many names that have been passed down only through oral tradition. This book is a compendium of tribal names in all their variants--from North, Central and South America--collected from printed sources. Because most of these original sources reproduced words that had been encountered only orally, there is a great deal of variation. Organized alphabetically, this book collates these variations, traces them to the spellings and forms that have become standardized, and supplies see and see also references. Each main entry includes tribal name, the parent group or ancestral tribe, original source for the tribal name, and approximate location of the name in the original source material.

Zusammenfassung
Offers an index of tribal names collected from printed sources on indigenous peoples in the New World. This book features various entries that include the tribal name, the tribe's 'parent group' or ancestral tribe, the original source for the tribal name, and the approximate location of the name in the original source material.

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