I just received my complimentary copy of Dr. Tiller's guide also known as,
"American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas." It is an impressive
work and has lots of excellent information in it. Dr. Tiller should be
commended for her scholarship.
However, I think I now know why it is free. The printing job couldn't be
worse. There are many, many missing pages and, of course, according
to "Murphy's Law," they always seem to be in the middle of something
which is really interesting. For instance, my home reservation of Pine
Ridge has the first page but all subsequent pages are missing. What a
disappointment. Dr. Tiller must feel cheated when looking at this as well.
I don't know if the printing company is Indian owned or has Indians
employed there. Perhaps someone who lives in Albuquerque could find
out for us. I can't find anything in the book that tells who the printer
is and am getting my information from someone else's previous posting.
That post said that it was Bow-Arrow Publishing Co. If this is true, I
have an arrow pointed in their direction and it is on a taunt bow. (Now,
now, let me calm down for a minute. It is only a book).
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Helen Engle, Archivist, National Archives-New England Region
380 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA 02154 (617) 647-8100
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Comments from NativeNet listowner, Gary Trujillo (gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us):
I've just had a look at my recently-received copy of this volume, and have
had a phone chat with Helen to find out what errors she found. All of the
blank pages in her copy are printed in mine, so it would seem that at least
some copies are OK in that respect. (I was, however, able to confirm a
page number error in the table of contents that Helen found.)
For more information on this subject, please refer to the article thread
"New Book: _Tiller's Guide to Indian Country_" in the NATIVE-L archives
("http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/" via the Web or by means
of the LISTSERV archives at "tamu.edu"). There is information in those
articles about how to get a free copy from the U.S. Department of Commerce,
if any remain.
As for the publisher information to which Helen refers, I think it applies
only to the commercial release of the book, since I would assume that this
edition was produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office under the
direction of the Department of Commerce.