Tribal Names of the Americas

<p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> Organized alphabetically this book collates these variations traces them to the spellings and forms that have become standardized and supplies <I>see</I> and <I>see also</I> 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.</p>