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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:43 -0800
From: Paul Adasiak
Subject: Indian chiefs: additions to personal headings
For American Indian leaders, is there any precedent for adding a title
or a tribe's/nation's name?
I'm updating our records for the recently deceased David Salmon, chief
of the Gwich'in Athapascan Indians. He seems not to exist as an author
(except as the interviewee in our oral history tapes), but he was often
known as "Chief Salmon".
Between my library's catalog, my periodicals index, and OCLC, he seems
to be known in a number of forms, with and without: dates, "Reverend",
"Rev. (Episcopal)", "Father", "Chief", and "Chief (Gwich'in Athapascan
Indians)". (Plainly we have some cleaning up to do.)
His chiefhood seems analagous to nobility, so I have half a mind to use
'Salmon, David, Chief'. Do heads of indigenous people's nations get the
nobility treatment? Or would it be better simply to use birth and death
dates?
--Paul
Paul Adasiak, Alaska and Polar Regions Department Metadata Coordinator
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska
Fairbanks Alaska & Polar Periodical Index: http://goldmine.uaf.edu/aprindex/
Alaska's Digital Archives: http://vilda.alaska.edu/
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:54:33 -0500
From: Michael Klossner
Subject: Re: Indian chiefs: additions to personal headings
> For American Indian leaders, is there any precedent for adding atitle
> or a tribe's/nation's name? I'm updating our records for the recently
> deceased David Salmon, chief of the Gwich'in Athapascan Indians.
In OCLC name-subject search, search "chief" in "personal names." You
get hundreds of tribal chiefs. Most of them, however, are traditional tribal
names such as Cochise,/c Apache chief, /d(dates). People with
a surname and a given name seem not to get a /c for a tribal title.
For instance, 100 Seltice, Joseph,/d[dates] has a 400 for Chief Joseph
Seltice. Perhaps you should use 100 Salmon, David,/d[dates] with a
400 for Salmon, David,/cGwich'in Athapascan chief,/d[dates].
Michael Klossner
Arkansas State Library
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:37:04 -0700
From: James Bowman
Subject: Indian chiefs: additions to personal headings
Under AACR2 the Library of Congress practice is to NOT add titles in
subfield c to headings for Indian chiefs. There are numerous old bib
records showing chiefs with titles in LC's catalog but if a name is
needed for use in new cataloging and a name authority record needs to be
created, such headings are traced as references and coded "old catalog
heading." Cf. Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse.
Jim Bowman
Library of Congress (Ret.)
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