Abstract

Putting Wintu Indian Tribe of California on the Map
Track: Tribal/Indigenous GIS Programs
Authors: Anne McTavish

Various scholars, including ethnographers, linguists, and archaeologists, have published maps
and descriptions of the Indian tribes in California. C. Hart Merriam and Alfred Kroeber disagreed about the location of the northern boundary of the Wintu. Using contemporary tools and data sets, the historic disagreement was re-examined and the analysis showed there is still much to be learned from the data. Anne McTavish will discuss the methodology used to examine and compare existing historic maps and create new layers from text. The research was done as part of her Geography MA thesis at San Francisco State University.


Anne McTavish
SFSU
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San Francisco, California 94132
United States
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E-mail: gis@sfsu.edu