Notes for Native American names
The single term LanguagePeopleTribe pools identifiers because different sources employ different identifiers and some sources are not clear as to the meaning of the identifiers given.
In some cases, different sources provide different California condor names for the same LanguagePeopleTribe. In some cases, the same source has multiple names for the same LanguagePeopleTribe.
Not all sources provide complete information. For example, a search for Santa Barbara as County may not result in all California condor names from the place now known as Santa Barbara County because some sources do not indicate any county with which a name is associated.
Many of the names incorporate specialized symbols to represent particular sounds. The meaning of these symbols is typically given in the sources. Because I do not have access to all the symbols employed in the sources, some of my renderings of names are not identical to those in the sources. The variety of the symbols necessitates presenting the names as images rather than text.
I do not deliberately include names for individual birds – real or mythical. However, in some cases it is not clear whether a name refers to the species or a mythical individual. I erred on the side of including these uncertain cases in the collection.
Some of the sources include additional information about the California condor names, most importantly the names of the “informants”, the Native American language speakers who provided the California condor names to those who published them.
The accuracy of some of the published information included in the collection has been questioned by others. I make no claims as to the veracity of the names or associated data published by others.
In the list of sources, details in square brackets were lacking in the source and so added by me based on reliable information.
(I have more Native American names for the California condor that I will be adding to the collection in the future.)
For an introduction to the languages of the Native American peoples of California, see Leanne Hinton’s Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages (Heyday 1996). For a historical introduction to the Native American peoples of California, see A. L. Kroeber’s Handbook of the Indians of California. Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1925, Kroeber’s report has been reprinted by various publishers many times.
I present Native American names for the California condor to draw attention to the condor and its importance to Native American peoples, to recognize the value and diversity of Native American languages, and to celebrate the languages and names. This effort is in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau’s observation (from his journal entry for 5 March 1858): “It was a new light when my guide gave me Indian names for [species] for which I had only scientific ones before. In proportion as I understood the language, I saw them from a new point of view.”
Some of the names in the collection have been respectfully incorporated into another resource on this website: Chronicle in names.
In some cases, different sources provide different California condor names for the same LanguagePeopleTribe. In some cases, the same source has multiple names for the same LanguagePeopleTribe.
Not all sources provide complete information. For example, a search for Santa Barbara as County may not result in all California condor names from the place now known as Santa Barbara County because some sources do not indicate any county with which a name is associated.
Many of the names incorporate specialized symbols to represent particular sounds. The meaning of these symbols is typically given in the sources. Because I do not have access to all the symbols employed in the sources, some of my renderings of names are not identical to those in the sources. The variety of the symbols necessitates presenting the names as images rather than text.
I do not deliberately include names for individual birds – real or mythical. However, in some cases it is not clear whether a name refers to the species or a mythical individual. I erred on the side of including these uncertain cases in the collection.
Some of the sources include additional information about the California condor names, most importantly the names of the “informants”, the Native American language speakers who provided the California condor names to those who published them.
The accuracy of some of the published information included in the collection has been questioned by others. I make no claims as to the veracity of the names or associated data published by others.
In the list of sources, details in square brackets were lacking in the source and so added by me based on reliable information.
(I have more Native American names for the California condor that I will be adding to the collection in the future.)
For an introduction to the languages of the Native American peoples of California, see Leanne Hinton’s Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages (Heyday 1996). For a historical introduction to the Native American peoples of California, see A. L. Kroeber’s Handbook of the Indians of California. Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1925, Kroeber’s report has been reprinted by various publishers many times.
I present Native American names for the California condor to draw attention to the condor and its importance to Native American peoples, to recognize the value and diversity of Native American languages, and to celebrate the languages and names. This effort is in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau’s observation (from his journal entry for 5 March 1858): “It was a new light when my guide gave me Indian names for [species] for which I had only scientific ones before. In proportion as I understood the language, I saw them from a new point of view.”
Some of the names in the collection have been respectfully incorporated into another resource on this website: Chronicle in names.
1 January 2020
