Maps of Keres

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).

Other resources related to this project:
Early Major Indian Tribes, Culture Areas and Linguistic Stocks (Sturtevant)


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North America: Keresan: Contemporary



Keresan in Contemporary North America

Data Sources:  
Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 43. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   June 2010.

Map Description:
The polygons and points represent concentrations of first-language speakers of Keresan languages. Polygons represent land or areas primarily occupied by first-language speakers whereas points show communities with varying numbers of speakers.

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 (North America: Contemporary) contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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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.



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