Selected Resources for: American Indian Studies
| Subject Librarian: Jody Gray E-Mail: grayjl@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the study of Native American people. Other terms used in literature searching include: Indians of North America; American Indians; Amerind, or Amerindian or North American Indian (people). |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesAmerica: History and Life   This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, it also includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, books, dissertations and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Anthropology Plus Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bibliography of Native North Americans Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, policy makers and will be helpful to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment A machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of books, journals, maps and drawings describing the exploration of North America. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index of Native American Resources on the Internet Includes a large section on Native American Art. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Ethnic Newswatch FULL TEXT articles from over 125 American ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century Masterfile Current Contents of 19th Century Masterfile: Series I: Multi-Title Periodical Indexes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Jones and Chipman), Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the Religion Index and more. Series II: Indexes to Books ALA Index to General Literature, 19th-century bibliographic database and more. Series III: Indexes to Newspapers New York Times Index, New York Daily Tribune Index, Palmer's Index and more. Series IV: Indexes to Individual Periodicals Harpers Weekly, Atlantic Monthly, North American Reviews (with free links to full text) Series V: US and UK Government Documents Indexes and US Patent Index Congressional Record, Papers of the President, Hansard's Parliamentary Indexes and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| North American Indian Thought and Culture When complete, the database will represent the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. Including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, the database presents the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. Much of the material is previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. New and current full-length biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Cochise, Jim Thorpe, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Geronimo, Hosteen Klah, Black Elk, Pocahontas, George Washington Grayson, Standing Buffalo, and many more. More than twenty volumes covering chiefs of various nations are now included, as well as a modern edition of the collected speeches of Sitting Bull. The Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures' five-volume encyclopedia on American Indian Artists has been added ("American Indian Art Series"), and the recent publication, American Indian Biographies (Salem Press, 2005) also adds many contemporary names to the collection. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical SourcesDictionaries
| Dakota-English Dictionary This is one of many language dictionaries. For more dictionaries for Native American languages, browse the Library of Congress call number range PM600-PM3000+ in Wilson Reference or in the general collection, 2nd floor Wilson. For more precise searching, search MNCAT using keywords; example: Ojibwa and dictionaries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Word Dance subtitle: the Language of Native American Culture [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| Native Americans Information Directory [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian Directory of reservations, tribes, agencies, associations, education information, health services, communications, arts, museums, periodicals, and other resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics "Entries cover people, events, court cases, movements and organizations that have shaped the political struggles of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Native Americans." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of North American Indians Convenient one volume encyclopedia covers such diverse contemporary and historical topics as archaeology, boarding schools, and sports mascots. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Essays on 152 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language and religion. Each essay is 5,000 to 20,000 words in length and includes black-and-white photographs, usually of people in native dress or engaged in a traditional activity. The information for each ethnic group includes a brief history of the country of origin, immigration statistics and a history of migration to America, and information on traditions and customs, language, religion, political involvement, and employment. Brief biographies of immigrants who have made a contribution to American society are followed by lists of newspapers and radio and TV stations serving the group, organizations, museums and research centers, and a brief bibliography. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes Multivolume encylopedia of tribes. v. 1. Northeast, Southeast, Caribbean / v. 2. Great Basin,Southwest, Middle America / v. 3. Arctic, Subarctic, Great Plains, Plateau/ v. 4. California, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Handbook of North American Indians This comprehensive encyclopedia is still being published. Many volumes deal with regions of North America; other volumes address broad topics such as languages, Indian-White relations. Check MNCAT for full listing of volumes currently available. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups Provides detailed essays on American ethnic groups, including statistical information. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Native America in the Twentieth Century Provides current information about social and cultural issues including art, health, law, sovereignty, race relations, religion, tribes, treaties and other topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life Useful for comparative overview of cultures. Most entries provide brief information in each of twenty standard categories for over 500 culture groups. v. 1. Africa / v. 2. Americas / v. 3. Asia and Oceania / v.4. Europe. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| New American State Papers: Indian Affairs Contains the American State Papers (documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States), other documents from the Serial Set, and documents from the Legislative Archives Section of the National Archives, through about 1827. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook Covers a range of contemporary issues: sovereignty & jurisdiction, land claims, hunting & fishing rights, sacred sites, burial practices, mineral rights, gambling, stereotypes, court cases. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Researching and Writing Tribal Histories [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts| Early American Imprints Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition Every book, pamphlet, serial, and other printed work of signficance published in America 1639 - 1800, 36,000 items, 2. 4 million page images when complete. Based on Charles Evans, American Bibliography with additions from Roger Bristol's Supplement. The file allows searching by author, title, key words in titles, publication years and places, and subject and format categories. A sub-group of 6000 works re-keyed and marked up by the Text Creation Partnership will allow full-text searching by all words in the text. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) under the general editorship of Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park. Intended as a long-term and inter-disciplinary project in progress committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies, it invites scholars from all disciplines to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on this site. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Gateways & Megasites
| American Indian Health The American Indian Health web site, is "an information portal to issues affecting the health and wellbeing of American Indians." Hosted by the National Library of Medicine, the site provides governmental information listed by general topic and includes good links to other web-based resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| NativeWeb Resource Center A national site with links to extensive resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Government Documents| Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations The texts of the nine treaties, created between the years 1722 and 1805, are offered. These are the product of seven, early treaty events between a number of American Indian Nations and the British, and of two United States efforts [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Indian Affairs. Laws and Treaties Indian affairs. Laws and treaties. Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1904-41. v. 1. Laws. Compiled to Dec. 1, 1902. v. 2. Treaties. v. 3. Laws. Compiled to Dec. 1,1913. v. 4. Laws. Compiled to March 4, 1927. v. 5. Laws. Compiled from Dec. 22, 1927, to June 29, 1938. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Supplement to Kappler's Indian affairs, laws and treaties : compiled federal regulations relating to Indians [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Historical Documents
| Making of America A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Select from either the Michigan site or the Cornell site. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources| LexisNexis Statistical Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Statistical Record of Native North Americans [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Zotero Free web-based bibliographic citation tool. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Research Guides
| Assignment Calculator Enter in the due date for your research project (paper, speech, video, poster, lab report) and get a suggested time-line for completing your project on time plus links to the resources on campus that will help you succeed in each step. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Writing Guides
| Center for Writing The Rhetoric Department, English Department, Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing and the General College Writing Center have come together to bring you writing support in one place. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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American StudiesAnthropology
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Education, Multicultural Issues
History, Minnesota
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