Selected Native American Studies Resources

Databases
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*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

*America′s Historical Newspapers (1758 - 1900)
Offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 200 significant 18th- and 19th- century newspapers from all 50 present states.
• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.
• *American National Biography
  Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.
• American Religion Data Archive
  The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
• *ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. Online Journals
• *Early Encounters in North America
  Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.
• In the First Person
  A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• *North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries & Oral Histories
  Includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.
• *North American Indian Thought & Culture
  Contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories
• *North American Women′s Letters & Diaries (Colonial Period - 1950)
  Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters dating from the colonial period to 1950
• *Primary Sources in U.S. History
  There are 2 subsets to this Lexis-Nexis database: Primary Sources in African American History and Primary Sources in American Women′s History.
• *Southern Life
  Contains nearly 5 million full-text articles on topics that relate directly to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals
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• HistoryNet.com
• *JSTOR History Journals
• *Nation Archive
  Established in 1865, the Nation offers an online 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It is an important collection of primary source material for history, politics, culture and the arts.
• *Online Journals for History (SerialsSolutions)
• *Project Muse History Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.
• *American Indian Quarterly(Muse); *JSTOR
• *Ethnohistory (fall 1999-2004)
• *Ka Ho′oilina/The Legacy
• *Studies in American Indian Literatures
• *Wicazo Sa Review (Muse); JSTOR
• Indian Country Today
  Since 1981, Indian Country Today has been a persuasive voice in American Indian journalism, leading the way with accurate and timely reporting, incisive analysis and pointed commentary. Indian Country Today publishes more original journalistic content on American Indian issues than any other news source.

Online Reference Sources
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• *Dictionary of Native American Literature
• *Dictionary of Native American Mythology
• *Encyclopedia of North American Indians
• *Encyclopedia of Native American Healing
• *Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition
• *Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
• *American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890 [Print REF: E81 .K44 1997]
• Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes [Print REF: E76.2 .W35 1988]
• Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 [Print REF: E89 .W35 2001]
• Native American Writiers of the United States [Print REF: PN441 .D5 VOL. 175]
• Indians of Central and South America: an Ethnohistorical Dictionary [Print REF: F1434 .O45 1991]
• Handbook of Middle American Indians [Print REF: F1434 .H3]
• Handbook of South American Indians [Print REF: F 2229 .S75]
• Handbook of North American Indians [Print REF: E77 .H25]
• *Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
• *Encylopedia of Social History 
• *Hutchinson Dictionary of American History
• *The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States  

Websites

• After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture (NYPL)
  369 prints and drawings by Simon van de Passe (1595-1647), George Catlin (1796-1872), and Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), dating from 1627 to the 1830s; 227 gelatin silver and platinum prints by photographers Edward S. Curtis (1868-1954), Karl E. Moon (1878-1948), and Frank A. Rinehart (1862-1928), and sculptor Frederic Allen Williams (1898-1958), from the late 1890s to 1927.
• AIM and Wounded Knee Documents
• American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience
  This collection of historical photographs is provided with the permission of Facts on File, Inc., and is a comprehensive collection of images of Native American people. The collection is arranged chronologically from the prehistoric period and the Paleo-Indians to 1990 and the appointment of R. Richard West as director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
• American Indian Online (Arizona State University Library)
• American Indian Resources
• American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
• Critical Bibliography on North American Indians (Smithsonian)
• Edward S. Curtis′s The North American Indian (Library of Congress)
• DMOZ: Native American Websites
• First Nation Histories
• First Nation Collection
  The First Nations Tribal Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion. We have begun to collect and mount materials about many tribes in southwestern Oregon and northern California.
• George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
  "George Catlin (1796-1872) journeyed west five times in the 1830s to paint the Plains Indians and their way of life. Convinced that westward expansion spelled certain disaster for native peoples, he viewed his Indian Gallery as a way "to rescue from oblivion their primitive looks and customs."
• Images of Native Americans
  The Bancroft Library presents "Images of Native Americans," a digital companion to an exhibit of rare books, photographs, illustrations, and other archival and manuscript materials that debuted in the Fall of 2000, to celebrate the acquisition of the University of California, Berkeley Library′s nine millionth volume.
• Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains (Montana State)
  Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database created with grant support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Program.
• Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations (U Nebraska)
• Lakota na Dakota Wowapi Oti Kin
  This page deals with Lakota and Dakota peoples. These distinct but related groups are sometimes referred to as Sioux or Siouan peoples.
• Laws and Treaties - Indian Affairs (U Oklahoma)
  ian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). Theodore De Bry Copper Plate Engravings
• Native Americans Document Project
  This project was begun in 1992 by Prof. E.A. Schwartz to develop methods for making documents of federal Indian policy history accessible by computer. The first documents used, now in the Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation collection, were originally gathered for dissertation research.
• Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
• Native American Sites
• Native American Issues and Causes
• NativeData.com
• NativeWeb
  Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.
• Native American History Resources (U of Washington)
• National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)
• Omaha Indian Heritage
  In an effort to make Omaha artifacts and photographic images more available, this project is creating an online catalogue of tribal resources drawn from international sources.
• Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans (Yale, Avalon Project)
• U.S. Code - Indians (Cornell University)
• WWW Virtual Library - American Indians