![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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