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Native American Studies Research Guide

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Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
WorldCat: Search for books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.
Anthropology Review Database (ARD): Book and film reviews from the current anthropological literature.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/

Find Articles

Academic Search Premier: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including Native American studies (1970s-present).
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America: History and Life *: Articles from several thousand scholarly journals covering U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to present (1954-present).
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AnthroSource *: Articles from 32 journals published by the American Anthropological Association, including those from JSTOR (all years).
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eHRAF World Cultures: The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) includes thousands of books and articles on cultures and ethnic groups worldwide (1949-present).
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Historical Abstracts *: Articles from several thousand scholarly journals covering Latin American and world history since 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada (1955-present).
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JSTOR *: Archive of hundreds of scholarly journals in many subject areas, including American Indian studies and anthropology (all years except most recent).
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The Indian Sentinel: Magazine focused on Catholic schools and missions in the U.S. (1902-1962).
http://digitalmarquette.contentdm.oclc.org/IS/index.html
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Bibliographies

American Indian Materials in the Federal Depository Libraries of Oklahoma: Bibliography of government documents and other publications held by Oklahoma's 19 federal depository libraries (PDF).
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/pubs/ghost_dance.pdf
Bibliography of Contemporary North American Indians: Includes sections on history, material culture, anthropology and more.
E 77 H6 (1976)
Lakota Dakota Bibliography: Resources related to the Lakota Indians, maintained by Fr. Ray Bucko, S.J.
http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/biblio.html
List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology: http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/BAE/Bulletin200/200title.htm

Encyclopedias & Reference

Dictionary of Anthropology: Provides definitions for theories and concepts as well as technical terms.
Reference Collection GN 11 .D48 1986
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/EN/
Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory: Covers modern structuralist, post-structuralist, phenomenological, feminist, hermeneutical, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and formalist theory.
Reference Collection HM 101 .D527 1997
Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Covers physical, biological, cultural, social, and applied anthropology, plus linguistics and archaeology. Also available in print.
Encyclopedia of North American Indians: Describes 100 tribes, including major contemporary groups, languages, language groups, and biographies (NetLibrary ebook).
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Native American Studies: Encyclopedias covering all aspects of American Indian culture, history, and tribes from the 15th century to the present.
Handbook of Ethnography: Provides an overview of ethnographic methods and ethnographic research.
Reference Collection GN 345 .H365 2001
Handbook of North American Indians: Scholarly work from the Smithsonian, with volumes for Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, Plains, Southeast, and Northeast tribes. View entries in Library Catalog (CLIC).
Oxford Reference Online: Collection of dictionaries covering world mythology and folklore, names and places, sociology, history, archaeology, ecology, and more.
SAGE Reference Online: Includes encyclopedias of anthropology, health and social welfare, history, politics, sociology and more.
Salem History: Profiles of great lives and great events in history, from the ancient world through the 20th century.

Native Health

Native Health Database: Materials pertaining to health and health care among North American indigenous peoples.
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/
IHS Primary Care Provider: Monthly publication of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Clinical Support Center.
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/HealthProvider/provider.asp
Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System: Report published by the U.S. Commission on Civil Right in 2004 (PDF).
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/nahealth/nabroken.pdf

Material Culture

American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org
Anthropology Collection Database: Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences. http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
Buechel Museum: St. Francis Mission Among the Lakota, South Dakota.
http://www.sfmission.org/museum/archive.shtml
Field Museum of Chicago: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
Lakota Winter Counts: Calendar images that the Lakota used to mark the passage of time.
http://wintercounts.si.edu/
National Museum of the American Indian: http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Red Cloud Museum: The Heritage Center of Red Cloud Indian School.
http://www.redcloudschool.org/museum/index.htm

Web Sites

Anthropology in the News: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
Anthropology Resources on the Internet: http://www.anthropologie.net/
Antiquities Act of 1906: http://www.aaanet.org/Antiquities_Act/
ArchNet: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/
Ethnographic Studies Resources: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html
H-AmIndian: http://www.h-net.org/~amind/
National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO): http://www.nathpo.org/
Understanding Race and Human Variation: http://raceproject.aaanet.org/index.html
Worldwide E-Mail Directory of Anthropologists: http://wings.buffalo.edu/WEDA/

Associations

American Indian Culture Research Center: http://www.bluecloud.org/dakota.html
American Indian Higher Education Consortium: http://www.aihec.org/
American Indian Library Association: http://aila.library.sd.gov/
American Indian Movement: http://aimovement.org/
American Indian Research and Policy Institute: http://www.airpi.org/
Association of American Indian Physicians: http://www.aaip.org/
The Cherokee National Historical Society: http://www.powersource.com/heritage/default.html
Indian Defense League of America: http://idloa.org/
The National Indian Gaming Association: http://www.indiangaming.org/
National Indian Telecommunications Institute: http://www.niti.org/
Native American Rights Fund: http://www.narf.org/
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science: http://www.sacnas.org/
Inter-Tribal Environmental Council of Oklahoma: http://www.itecmembers.org/
United National Indian Tribal Youth: http://www.unityinc.org/

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