We wish to thank the following individuals and
express our appreciation for the time and assistance they provided AIHSC in our
research of the Manataka American Indian Council’s claims:
Dr. Robert L. Rankin, dean of Dhegiha studies at the University of
Kansas. Dr. Rankin specializes in languages of the Siouan and Muskogean
languages. His assistance in attempting to identify the origin and meaning of
the term “manataka” was invaluable. He also provided an extended arm in this
search through his numerous contacts in the Native American linguistic field.
Dr. Ann Early, Arkansas State Archeologist and Arkansas Archeological
Survey.
Dr. Ives Goddard, senior Smithsonian linguist and specialist in
endangered Native American languages.
Dr. J. Daniel Rogers, Chairman, Department
of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
David Lintz, Director, Improved Order of Red Men Museum and Library,
Waco, Texas.
Dr. James Tichgelaar of the University Museum of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
Marci Robertson, Director of Collections & Research, Museum Of Discovery, Little Rock.
Hot Springs NPS personnel for providing
answers to our inquiries into the park's and area's history.
We would also like to thank the numerous American Indian tribal chiefs, chairmen, historians and
linguistic experts we contacted in attempts to verify MAIC’s claims.
Publications
Arkansas Archaeology, Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morris; Edited
by R.C. Mainfort Jr. and Marvin D. Jetter; University of Arkansas Press
“Greenwood Leflore”; Harris Leflore Cloeman, 1994
Historical Atlas of Arkansas; Gerald T. Hanson and Carl H. Moneyhon;
University of Oklahoma Press
The Quapaw Indians: A History of the Downstream People; W. David Baird;
University of Oklahoma Press
The American Spa, Hot Springs, Arkansas; Dee Brown; Rose Publishing Co.,
Little Rock
A Book About American History; George Stimpson; Fawcett Publications
The De Soto Chronicles, The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America
in 1539-1543 Edited by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and
Edward C. Moore; The University of Alabama Press
Tunicans West of the Mississippi: A Summary of Early Historic and
Archeological Evidence; D.H. Dye and R.C. Brister; Archeological Reports No.
18, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Spanish Conquest of Native America; Donald Sheppard; illustrated
hypertext at floridahistory.com
A Chronology of Hot Springs Events; Sharon Shugart; National Park
Department of the Interior, National Park Service; 2002
Hot Springs & Mineral Spas in North America; Nathaniel Altman; Healing
Arts Press
Indians and Archeology of Missouri; Carl H. and Eleanor F. Chapman;
University of Missouri Press
The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley;
Gilbert C. Din and Abraham P. Nasitir; University of Oklahoma Press.
The Osage; Terry P. Wilson; Chelsea House Publishers, New York.
A History of the Caddo Indians; William B. Glover; reprinted from The
Louisiana Historical Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 4 Oct 1935 http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/caddo/Indians.html
A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy; V.B. Newkumet and H.L.
Meredith; Texas A&M Press
The Caddo Nation: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives; Timothy
K. Perttula; University of Texas Press
Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854; F. Todd
Smith; Texas A&M University Press
The Sacred Symbols of Mu; James Churchward;
1933
Ixchel; from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
Structure of the Ouachita mountains of
Oklahoma and Arkansas; Hugh D. Miser; University of Oklahoma Press
Essentials of Geology; Stephen Marshak; Norton & Co.
History of Rock Art Research in Arkansas; George Sabo III and Jerry Hilliard; Arkansas Archeological Survey
A Story of Choctaw Chiefs; James Hudson; Chronicles of Oklahoma; Volume 17, No. 1; March, 1939
The Native Population of the Americas of the Americas in 1442; William Denevan; University of Wisconsin Press
Indians of the Ozark Plateau; Elmo Ingenthron; The School of the Ozarks Press
Indian Tribes of North America; Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 45
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail : Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee comprehensive management and use plan; U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service
Historical and statistical information
respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the
United States; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft; Lippincott, Grambo, 1851-57
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission; 76th.
Congress, 1st Session, House Document, no. 71, Government Printing Office, Wash.
DC.
The Spiro Ceremonial Center; James A. Brown; Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 29; Ann Arbor, University of Michigan.
A pair of autograph letters offering both his services as a lecturer on various subjects and some Indian artiacts for sale by Benito Altaha Grayhorse, signed 15 December 1928, from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Lessie Read, editor of the Fayetteville, Arkansas, newspaper
Official Bulletin National Indian War Veterans U.S.A.Published in the Interest of the Survivors of Indian Wars and the Old Army of the Plains Vol XVI No. 5; St. Joseph Missouri, May 1939
Draft Manuscript: "Didn't All The Indians Come Here?"- Separating Fact From Fiction At Hot Springs National Park; Mark Blaeuer; unpublished
The background for this site is from
Prehistoric Rock Art Photography and Illustrations by James Q. Jacobs
