In 1905, cultural anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber provided a report to address the confusion regarding nomenclature of Shoshonian and other tribes in California. Help us transcribe this report to learn about the populations and people of the San Joaquin-Tulare Valley.
In 1905, cultural anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber provided a report to address the confusion regarding nomenclature of Shoshonian and other tribes in California. Help us transcribe this report to learn about the populations and people of the San Joaquin-Tulare Valley.
At the end of the nineteenth century, many tribes in California referred to themselves using the word "people" in their various languages. Anthropologist and linguist A.L. Kroeber (1876-1960) explained that expedition members, surveyors, missionaries, and other external parties had ascribed names for the tribes. Kroeber spent most of his career as professor at University of California, Berkeley and served as director of the Museum of Anthropology there. He was very influential in developing anthropological concepts as well as through his work in collecting cultural data and articulating relationships of western Native Americans.
The National Anthropological Archives holds this report that totals 31 pages. In it, Kroeber documents the relationships between tribes and the interactions with external groups, such as the Spanish. Cultures that are detailed include the Shoshoni, Snake, Ute, Serrano, Paiute, Bannock, Cahuilla and many more tribes. Transcribe these records to help others learn more about these relationships and explore the populations that lived in the deserts, mountains, and valleys of California through the National Anthropological Archives.
