Zc12-16 - Indians

Yale Collection of Western Americana

Scope | Classification | Subjects | Table of Indian Tribes

Scope

• Class here works about Indians, and works about or in Indian languages. Use of these classes is not limited to Indians of the West.
• Class works pertaining to an individual tribe in Zc16, or if that is not practicable, with a specific locality in Zc12. Topics to be classed with a particular tribe or locality include government relations (including treaties and reservations), missions, education, general customs, and captivities.
• Class in Zc12 or Zc13 material too broad to be classed with a specific tribe or locality.
• Class all linguistic material in either Zc14 or Zc15.
• Class antiquities with the general works on a locality (e.g., Zc72 for a work on Indian antiquities in California) rather than in Zc12-16.
• Works about Indian wars class with the history of the area involved. (Captivities growing out of an Indian war may class with the war if desirable.)

Classification

The call numbers for Indian materials are constructed like those in the rest of the Western Americana collection. The primary difference is use of a cutter for tribe, language, geographic area, or topic before the last line of the call number. Two exceptions are general works about Indians (Zc12) and general works about Indian languages (Zc14).

Zc12 – General works, history, description

Use for works which are too broad to be classed with a particular tribe or locality.
The second line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.
For serials use A1 followed by a cutter for the main entry.

Examples:

Alexander, Hartley Burr. The religious spirit of the American Indian, 1910.

The Council fire and arbitrator. Washington, D.C., 1878-

Zc12 A-Z – General works by locality

Use for general works that cannot be classed with a particular tribe, but can be classed with a particular locality.
The second line uses a standard Yale number for states, Canadian provinces, or one of the following regions:
A11 - Mississippi-Missouri Valley
A12 - Southwest
A13 - Pacific Coast
A14 - Canadian Northwest
The third line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Example

Leupp, Francis Ellington. Notes of a summer tour among the Indians of the Southwest, 1897.

Zc13 – Special topics, A-Z

Use for works which are too broad to be classed with a particular tribe or locality, but fall into one of the categories below.
The second line uses one of the following cutters.
C6 - Commerce
E3 - Education
G7 - Government relations
M6 - Missions
The third line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Example:

United States. Congress. Senate. Commitee on Indian Affairs. Documents relative to Indian trade, 1822.

Zc14 – Languages, general works

Use for works about Indian languages which cannot be classed with a particular language or locality.
The second line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Example

Turner, William W. (William Wadden). Professor Turner’s letter on Indian philology, 1852.

Zc14 – Languages by locality

Use for works on Indian languages that cannot be classed with a particular language or linguistic family.
The second line uses a standard Yale numbers for states, Canadian provinces, or for one of the following for regions.
A11 - Mississippi-Missouri Valley
A12 - Southwest
A13 - Pacific Coast
A14 - Canadian Northwest
The third line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Example

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel). Indian languages of the Pacific states and territories, [1877].

Zc15 – Languages, by language or linguistic family

Use for works in or about a particular Indian language.
The second line is a cutter for the language from the table of Indian tribes followed by either:
a - general works, treatises, grammars, dictionaries, etc.
b - texts, primers, readers
The third line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Examples

Riggs, Mary Ann Clark Longley. An English and Dakota vocabulary, 1852.

Riggs, Stephen Return. Dakota wiwicawangapi kin, [1864].

Zc16 – Indians by tribe

Use for works about specific tribes including biographies of individual Indians.
The second line is a cutter for the tribe from the table of Indians tribes.
The third line is a three digit date followed by the first two letters of the main entry.

Example

Tuttle, Sarah. History of the American mission to the Pawnee Indians, 1838.

Subjects

Make appropriate subject tracings which bring out the “Indian” nature of the material if not already present. Although LC no longer routinely makes the tracing Indians of North America ‡x [Subheading] when the subject is [Name of tribe] ‡v [Subheading], we will continue to do so for BRBL. For example if the subject tracing, Cherokee Indians ‡v Pictorial works, is used, also make the tracing, Indians of North America ‡v Pictorial works. If appropriate, use a geographic subdivision first (e.g., Indians of North America ‡z Oklahoma ‡v Pictorial works).

Special tracings are made also made for works by authors who are Native American.

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