hello pal-o-mine,

granny jerked your chain unmercifully on her -11- question and she
feels positively wretched about it.  she put your name on this
question so you needn't lose any sleep over this one.

today I need a list of correct spellings for North American Indian
tribes.  no need to cut and paste all the names as I'm sure the list
is quite lengthy.  just a couple links where I can find them will be
dandy.  if you don't get every *single* one of them, that's cool;
granny just needs a fairly inclusive list.

semi-related and if you're so inclined, granny also needs verification
on spelling for a Mexican-Aztec tribe that kinda sounds like
"machacas" or "michaques."

thanks ever so much and viva le coast guard,
GB {in no hurry}

Prince Haversian, eh?  You really *did* appreciate my last answer,
didn't you?  In any event, it's nice to have one's ego stroked every
once in a while:)

On to your list of tribes.  The Library of Congress (clearly my
favorite online resource!) has a list organized by geographical region
at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/tribes.html
The census bureau has a really mind-boggling list of tribal names that
you can look at here (
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/race/indian/cp-3-7/appenG.pdf
)

As to "machacas", I'm at a bit of a loss.  I don't recognize the name,
and have had a hard time finding anything resembling a comprehensive
list of names of native Mexican tribes.  There's a wildlife preserve
named Chocón-Machacas, and machaca is a traditional Mexican dish made
with fried meat, egg, and onion; as a verb, it means to crush.  I'll
keep looking and let you know if I find anything.

-Haversian

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Request for Answer Clarification by badabing-ga on 24 Oct 2002 13:49 PDT

granny *loves* mind-boggling lists...these are perfect!  I have
nothing else to go on with the Mexican-Aztec tribe.  a woman
pronounced it "machacas" but didn't know how to spell it.  granny
tried to locate them, too, but had to abandon her search prematurely. 
feel free to float any ideas past me.  I went 'round the
vowel-substitution globe trying to find an alternate spelling and came
up with bupcas.

yummmm...muchacas!

{consider yourself stroked}

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Clarification of Answer by haversian-ga on 24 Oct 2002 13:58 PDT

Yeah, I went through vowel-substitution too.  Technically, there's a k
in Spanish but it isn't used much; the ch and qu combinations are the
most common way to get a k-type sound.  I'll keep looking for a decent
list of tribal names to look through.

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Request for Answer Clarification by badabing-ga on 24 Oct 2002 14:16 PDT

or possibly a -qi ending?  granny hates to sandwich a question this
mundane between your Red Hat and vapor hydrogen peroxide-o-fission
ones, but she knows how you love a challenge.

things like this just get locked in granny's head and she can't move
on until they're added to her headspellcheck.  you understand.

much obliged for your diligence, Prince!
{stroked by a granny ... a sitcom coming to the Pox network in 2003}

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Request for Answer Clarification by badabing-ga on 24 Oct 2002 14:44 PDT

keeerection...that's -qUi, like the Yaquis.  I think they have a ball club as well.

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Clarification of Answer by haversian-ga on 25 Oct 2002 04:27 PDT

Yeah; not much in the way of 'qi' in Spanish:)

Also not much in the way of indiginous central american
peoples...(still looking)

I've got a question for you - how did you decide it was Prince
Haversian and not Princess Haversian?  Is there a Google profile you
can look at, or you just figured that since the original person was
male, I must be too?

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Request for Answer Clarification by badabing-ga on 25 Oct 2002 04:47 PDT

whoa, I was just thinkin' about you.  nope, no profile lookin' and
please don't ask me to explain granny's brainpan -- that's a scary
prospect indeed!  and she also has no funny story about "512" but if
she thinks of one, she'll pass it along.

the only thing I found was this weird website about machaquis which I
dunno is fact or fiction. 
http://www.javabachelor.100megs4.com/jungleja.htm  anything called
"javabachelor" kinda makes ya wonder, hmmm.

lemme know if ya run across anything interesting, eh?  many thanks,
chief!

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Clarification of Answer by haversian-ga on 25 Oct 2002 10:24 PDT

Found another link for you:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American (Wikipedia - what a
great name!)

Still no luck with the other thing...

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Request for Answer Clarification by badabing-ga on 25 Oct 2002 15:08 PDT

T-riffic, Eric Clopton.  one can never have *too* many Indian tribe
lists.  I will cross reference them this weekend for discrepancies.

so.  what's your opinion on the javabachelor photos?  do those folks
exist or are they rejected extras from "Krippendorf's Tribe?"

shakazulu,
GB

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Clarification of Answer by haversian-ga on 25 Oct 2002 15:46 PDT

It's hard to tell whether the photos are doctored or not, but given
the content of the other essays (at
http://www.soltec.net/~java/essays.htm ) on the site, I wouldn't trust
the story as gospel truth.  That's not to say it's a lie either; the
story appears to have really been published, but lots of things get
published...  Hard so say one way or another.

you're *extremely* helpful, sparky, and hope to work with you again
sometime.  granny is, however, runnin' outta cash quickly because she
has so many freakin' questions and no time to run them down herself. 
she does *immensely* appreciate you researchers workin' her
undervalued questions though.  granny also feels that you're spendin'
too much time with your nose in the LOC, so kindly accept this tip and
buy yourself a brewski on me, eh?  oh, and watch out for those
machaquis.  they look like a rough crowd.