Maps of Chimakuan
Chimakuan in South America at the Time of Contact
Chimakuan in South America at the Time of Contact
Source:
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 92. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized: July 2010
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Chimakuan languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified in Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Kaufman 2007).
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Central and South America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Date Digitized: July 2010
Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Chimakuan languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified in Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Kaufman 2007).
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Central and South America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. Color selections used in this map are advised by ColorBrewer.
Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska (Sturtevant)
Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Language Stocks in Alaska
Map Creator: William C. Sturtevant
Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Historical Maps of the United States.
Data Source: Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks. The National Atlas of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970.
Date Created: 1967
Map Description:
Illustrated here are the Native American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands along with their linguistic stocks, as hypothesized by Sturtevant. He notes that tribal distributions depicted are sometimes arbitrary, as the information used to determine them was gathered over a large span of time. He also states that the cultural areas which indicate "minor" tribes that share cultural traits are vaguely classified at times, and that the distribution of many cultural traits does not coincide (Sturtevant).
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Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)
Source: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Historical Maps of the United States.
Data Source: Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks. The National Atlas of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1970.
Date Created: 1967
Map Description:
Illustrated here are the Native American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands along with their linguistic stocks, as hypothesized by Sturtevant. He notes that tribal distributions depicted are sometimes arbitrary, as the information used to determine them was gathered over a large span of time. He also states that the cultural areas which indicate "minor" tribes that share cultural traits are vaguely classified at times, and that the distribution of many cultural traits does not coincide (Sturtevant).
Other resources related to this project:
Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
Languages of Alaska and Canada
Languages of Alaska and Canada
Source:
The PROEL map of Alaska and Canada
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Downloaded: 01/01/2010
Map Description:
This map focuses on contact languages, and gives only language family information for the Algonquian and Athabascan languages.
More information on the individual languages can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Date Downloaded: 01/01/2010
Map Description:
This map focuses on contact languages, and gives only language family information for the Algonquian and Athabascan languages.
More information on the individual languages can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
North America: Linguistic Stocks of American Indians (Powell)
Map of Linguistic Stocks of American Indians
Source:
Project Gutenberg
High resolution map available from the Library of Congress
Data Source: Powell, J. W. (1891) Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico. Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86.7. 1-142, pl. I
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Public Content
Date Digitized: 2010
Map Description:
This map displays the distribution of Native American languages in the United States and Canada as of the late 19th Century. The information found in this map is also presented in a paper titled 'Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico', which Powell published in the seventh volume of the Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Other resources related to this project:
For more information on the Bureau of Ethnology (now called the 'Bureau of American Ethnology') and online copies of the reports, you can review the Smithsoninan Institution Archives at archive.org.
The paper associated with this map can be found in volume seven.
High resolution map available from the Library of Congress
Data Source: Powell, J. W. (1891) Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico. Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86.7. 1-142, pl. I
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Public Content
Date Digitized: 2010
Map Description:
This map displays the distribution of Native American languages in the United States and Canada as of the late 19th Century. The information found in this map is also presented in a paper titled 'Indian linguistic families of America north of Mexico', which Powell published in the seventh volume of the Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Other resources related to this project:
For more information on the Bureau of Ethnology (now called the 'Bureau of American Ethnology') and online copies of the reports, you can review the Smithsoninan Institution Archives at archive.org.
The paper associated with this map can be found in volume seven.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).