Description
Author: Oreste Lombardi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/12/2012
Pages: 98
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781475044829
ISBN10: 1475044828
BISAC Categories:
- History | Native American
About the Author
Oreste Lombardi was born in Cedar City, Utah. As a child he was drawn to the Southern Paiute people. He was in and out of their homes and played with their children. He was honored with an Indian name. He lived in two worlds, the Indian world and the white world. Like his friend, LaVan Martineau, he studied their ways and their language. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1955 with a degree in Geochemistry and then from New Mexico Tech in 1957 with a M.S. in geochemistry. He worked for the U.S Navy at Michelson Laboratories at China Lake, California where he worked in analytical chemistry, weather modification, oceanography, seismology and neurological cetacean studies. In connection with the cetacean studies he swam with dolphins at Point Magu. He was chief chemist at Pittsburg Plate Glass soda plant on Owens Lake near Death Valley. He has spent many years as a teacher on the Navajo Indian Reservation teaching mathematics, chemistry, earth science, and physics. He is the tribal genealogist for the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the genealogist for the Wyannie Malone Museum in the Bahamas for whom he authored the Dolly Mae CD which is considered the bible of Bahamian genealogy. He became the genealogist of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah by unanimous approval by the tribal council in 1996. He has researched the family history of Southern Paiutes and related peoples in a swath of territory stretching from the Four Corners area to the Los Angeles. He has prepared a genealogy CD with about 50,000 names in family groups for use by the tribes which includes Western Shoshone, Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Mono Paiute, Tubatulabal, Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Cahuilla, and others. His genealogical research has generated a wealth of information that is not available from any other source. He is a generalist in the physical, life, and social sciences. This is what enabled him to come up with this book.
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