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Projects
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Projects
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Editorial Projects
Editorial
projects that make the results of research widely available
to scholars, tribal members, and the general public is
one of the primary goals of AISRI. Publication of important
documents, employing the highest standard of historical
editing, is a major focus. Throughout the history of the
study of American Indians, Indians and non-Indians alike
have recorded a vast range of descriptive material—ethnographic,
historical, and linguistic—that has remained unpublished
in archives. Preparation of those materials for publication
requires interdisciplinary skills, drawing on the concepts
and methods of anthropology, history, and linguistics,
to make those documents optimally useful for understanding
the American Indian past.
The range of editorial projects in which AISRI members
have been and are engaged includes the following:
- Historical documents,
comprising journals and other writings of fur traders
and explorers of the Great Plains, particularly the
central and northern Plains, as well more recent manuscripts
relating to American Indian cultures written by anthropologists
and by Indian people themselves.
- Linguistic texts,
comprising transcriptions and translations of the
oral traditions of various Plains tribal groups, particularly
members of the Caddoan (Arikara, Pawnee, Kitsai) and
Siouan (Sioux and Assiniboine) language families.
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