The Indian Tribes of North America John R Swanton Genealogy Book

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The Indian Tribes of  North America
John R. Swanton
Volume  totaling
726
pages. Book is in new condition. Per the publisher;
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. It is a vast and impressive digest of all  Indian groups and their historical locations throughout the continent. 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.
Using the year 1650 to determine the general location of most of  the tribes, Swanton has drawn four over-sized fold-out maps, each depicting a  different quadrant of North America and the location of the various tribes  therein, including not only the tribes of the United States, Canada, Greenland,  Mexico, and Central America, but the Caribbean islands as well. According to the  author, the gazetteer and the maps are "intended 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. . . ."
Accordingly, the bulk of 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. As far as possible each tribe, or group, is  treated as an independent entity, but the work as a whole forms an absolutely  comprehensive picture of the Indian tribes of North America, and leaves no  question unanswered about any tribal grouping, big or small.
Along with the bibliography and index, and the imprimatur of its  original publisher, the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology,  Swanton's book is an authoritative digest of the Indian tribes of North America,  and it is the one book that you'll need as a desk reference in your Native  American research.
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