AIS 200: Introduction to American Indian Studies
Basic HelpBasic Research SourcesContemporary Issues Research
Basic Sources for Help
This is the way you will be required to cite your references (list the books and journals) that used for this paper. For more information, the print version of the complete guide is in the Information Commons, BF76.7 P83 2001 Info. Commons Ref.
APA Citation Exercise
Use this basic exercise to refresh your memory about how to use APA citations.Avoiding Plagarism
What is plagarism and how to avoid it.Popular vs Scholarly Articles - Guide
If you are not clear about this concept this page should help you out.Search Strategy Builder
Learn how to put your concepts into a searchable form.Ways to Get Help with Research
CHAT lets you talk to a librarian online. She may not be familiar with your exact assignment, but she can probably get you started
Askref lets you email a question to the Library. Someone will try to answer it within 24 hours.
Ask a Subject Specialist: American Indian Studies will lead you to my email.
Basic Research Resources
Print and Online Encyclopedias and Handbooks:
Handbook of North American Indians: E76.4 H Information Commons Ref.
Native America in the Twentieth Century: an Encyclopedia E76.2 .N36 1994 Info Commons Ref.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America 2nd ed. Available only to UA Students, Faculty and Staff. Off campus be sure your have logged on with your last name and catcard
Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes E77 .G15 1998 Information Commons Ref.
Data Bases for Articles and Book Chapters
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Indexes the history, life and life of native peoples of North America.AnthroSource
Contains the full text of the current issues of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, along with access to the full text of the complete AAA journal archive in JSTOR.America: History and Life
History of the United States and Canada. Has more than 800 scholarly articles about the Navajo.Humanties International Complete
History and current events about the cultures of the world including Indians.
Subject Headings to use in searching the online catalog for:
Material culture—the physical, tangible artifacts, tools, implements, realities of everyday life; such as the tools and technologies associated with raising livestock, weaving, cooking, food production, clothing, jewelry, transportation, architecture, and so on.
Dakota Indians—Costume OR Dakota Indians—Clothing
Hopi Indians -- Agriculture
Navajo Indians—Dwellings
Cherokee Indians—Ethnobotany
Zuni Indians -- Jewelry
Navajo Indians—Medicine
Tlingit sculpture
Tewa pottery
Structures of government, government relations and the processes of governance.
Iroquois Indians—Politics and Government
Oglala Indians -- Government relations
Tohono O'odham Indians -- Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- History -- 20th century
Place, land, resources
Hopi Indian Reservation
Seminole Indians -- Social life and customs
Cultural property -- Protection -- Southwest, New
Key word searching will help you find chapters in books. Examples are Hopi and weaving, Navajo and home or hogan, Dakota and buffalo.
Resources for Contemporary Issues
Find information about contemporary issues (e.g. treaty rights, Indian gaming, sacred site protection/religious freedom, NAGPRA, etc.). In addition to the resources above you may need to use these:
Data Bases for Journal Articles, Book Chapter, Books and Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Complete
Multi-subject including scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers.
Ethnic Newswatch
This source has American Indian newspapers in full text. Set the search to Native Peoples to search just these newspapers.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Mostly full text · News, business, law, health, biography · Newspapers and news magazines
America's Newspapers
Full text · All subjects · U.S. Newspapers
Suggested subject headings to use in the online catalog
Gambling on Indian reservations -- United States.
Sovereignty
Indians of North America -- Gambling.
United States. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Cultural property -- Protection
Intellectual Property
Indians of North America -- Law and Legislation
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc
Native American Church of North America
Indians of North America -- government relations
Try key words was well. Use the LIMIT function in both subject and key word searches. Limiting by LOCATION will get all of the books in the Law Library which cannot circulate out of your search, for example!
WEB sites and other resources
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links
A Census Bureau site which provided links to all of the census information on line for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The BIA website as well as the BIA mail servers have been made temporarily unavailable due to the Cobell Litigation. However this page has links to over 50 useful government and inter-tribal web sites.
Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition - KF8204 .E53 1998 Main Ref.
Covers broad legal concepts and some major case law.
List of Federally Registered Tribes
The text of the Friday, November 25, 2005 Federal Register. The official name of the list is: "Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs." The list is to be published annually in the Federal Register.
NAGPRA
Managed by the National Park Service. Information on the law and its implementation.
Native American Web Sites
This web site is regularly updated and has lists of American Indian nations, organizations, colleges etc.
National Indian Gaming Commission
Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations - E93 .T55 2005 Main Ref.
Sara Heitshu
American Indian Studies Librarian
307-2781
February 2007