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LIBRARY
Native Americans Research |
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| NON-FICTION | |
| 291.1 KAS | Putnam's concise mythological dictionary |
| 299 DEL | For this land : writings on religion in America. |
| 305.48 GRE | Women in American Indian society |
| 759.13 MCC | George Catlin and the old frontier. |
| 811.008 POE | Poetry of the American West |
| 920 PEN | Western expansion: biographies |
| 921 CRA | Crazy Horse: a life |
| 970 LEP | Encounters in the New World |
| 970 WOO | When buffalo free the mountains |
| 970.004 CAT | Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians |
| 970.004 GRI | The encyclopedia of Nativ America. |
| 970.004 JOH | Macmillan encyclopedia of Native American tribes |
| 970.004 WAL | Atlas of the North American Indian |
| 970.01 WOO | Ancient America |
| 970.1 AME | American Heritage book of Indians |
| 970.1 DEB | A history of the Indians of the United States |
| 970.1 STU | Discovering man's past in the Americas. |
| 970.1 WOL | American Indian portraits |
| 970.4 BRO | Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; : an Indian history of the American West |
| 970.4 HOO | To live and die in the West: American Indian Wars |
| 970.4 WOR | Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest |
| 970.411 BAN | People of the totem : the Indians of the Pacific Northwest |
| 973 BRU | Lasting echoes : an oral history of Native American people |
| 973 HAK | The first Americans |
| 973 KOH | Encyclopedia of American history |
| 973 LEV | Homesteaders and Indians |
| 973 NAR | The Indian wars |
| 974.4 MIT | Ceremonial time : fifteen thousand years on one square mile |
| 976.6 HOI | Night of the cruel moon : Cherokee removal and the Trail of Tears |
| 978 MCM | Sacagawea's nickname : essays on the American West. |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 305.8 WOR | Worldmark encyclopedia of culture and daily life |
| REF 390 GRE | The Greenwood encyclopedia pf daily life |
| REF 973 ALB | Album of American history |
| REF 973 ANN | The annals of America |
| REF 973 CHR | Chronicle of America |
| REF 973 GRO | The American years |
| REF 973.3 AME | American eras |
| SEARCH TERMS |
| "name of tribe" AND location |
| "name of tribe" AND date |
| DATABASES |
| The American National Biography |
| A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name. |
| http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html |
| CQ Researcher Online |
| CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. |
| http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/index.php |
| EBSCO Ultra Online |
| Perhaps the best research tool for literary, fine arts, history, social studies information. If you have an English project, use this site. Be sure to click on Full Text when looking for direct sources and quotes. |
| http://search.epnet.com |
| eLibrary |
| The ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. |
| www.proquestk12.com/ |
| Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Britannica Online School Edition : The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. To access the following additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button. Annals of American History : Online access to 2,100 original source documents in U.S. history, providing a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems and interviews. |
| www.school.eb.com |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Grove Dictionary of Art |
| The unsurpassed authority on all aspects of art from prehistory to the present day with extensive links to images from galleries and museums around the world. |
| http://www.groveart.com |
| Grove Dictionary of Music |
| A dynamic searching tool combining the full text of the acclaimed 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the 2-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera and the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, in addition to Sibelius-enabled musical examples and extensive links to musical sites on the Internet. |
| www.grovemusic.com |
| The History Study Center |
| History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day |
| http://www.proquestk12.com/ |
| 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 |
| www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.aspx |
| WEBSITES |
| American Indian Library Association |
| A listing of all related resources catalogued on this site. |
| http://aila.library.sd.gov/other/index.htm |
| American Memory - Library of Congress |
| American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. |
| http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html |
| The History Channel |
| The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth. |
| www.history.com |
| Native Americans |
| A multi-facted site with links to individual tribe sites, Native American history and biograpies. |
| Native American Nations |
| This web page contains links to pages that have either been set up by the nations themselves, or are pages devoted to a particular nation, and are ALPHABETICAL BY TRIBAL NAME. Pages maintained by Indian Nations or individuals are indicated with the drum symbol. . Pages without this symbol are primarily ABOUT specific nations, but not by them. |
| http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/nations.html |
| SEARCH ENGINES |
| Ask.com |
| Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. I |
| www.ask.com |
| CITATION AIDS |
| easybib |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| Works Cited Guidelines (MLA 6th edition) |
| Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear. |
| http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html |
| Research and Documentation Online |
| Link for documenting sources in research papers. |
| http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ |
| The OWL at Purdue |
| Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc., sponsored by Purdue University |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html |
