Hi Allison,

We are in the process of sorting out all our Culture names across the
museum. We have finished the review of cultures in the Americas, Africa and
Oceania and are still working on Asia. We decided to create a hierarchical
authority that begins with broad geographical divisions. Our terms combine
the indigenous name (as preferred name) along with the western name for a
given people (for increased accessibility to a western audience who only
know the western terms).

Selecting a preferred name proved a bit problematic at times as deciding
which group within the indigenous community is authoritative re: the name
to use can be complicated. We want to use the name a people use for
themselves, but that isn't always straightforward.  To further complicate
the terminology, within the hierarchy we have combined Group and Sub-group
names for clarity and ease of association, even though this required us to
create names not exactly as used by the peoples themselves. It did serve to
bypass a lack of 'inheritance' of terms once the records are out on our
website, however, where currently there is not otherwise a way to know all
the sub-groups of a given group.

At any rate, this is where we currently stand. We've set up the Culture
fields to use Ctrl + Insert to access the authority to ensure users will
use the correct spellings/formats. It is a work in progress and only
represents the cultural groups present in our collections now, so will
likely grow over time.

I am attaching our 'how to' document for entering the terms along with a
pdf of the Culture Hierarchy itself. If you (or anyone else reading this)
has any questions or comments about it, please get in touch.

All the best,
Frances

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> Subject: How are you using TMS Constituents for Indigenous Cultural Names?
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> Hello TMS users,
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> Most of our collection is by indigenous peoples and we are struggling with
> TMS capabilities for searching constituents from the Objects Module. We are
> looking at moving toward using the names people call themselves rather than
> the colonized names given them because it is more culturally appropriate.
> However, we understand users search for with all sorts of names. For
> example if a user searches "Sioux" the results should include all objects
> associated with Lakota, Dakota, Nakota as well as the communities within
> those groups such as Oglala, Brule, Blackfeet, etc. as well as the
> reservations they currently live on.
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> Does anyone have procedures for entering indigenous names?
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> We are using TMS2016 R2.
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> Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
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