Sources
- Edward E. Ayer Digital CollectionThe Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection features several thousand digitized images and texts selected from the Newberry Library’s Ayer Collection, one of the strongest on American Indians in the world.
- First Nations CollectionThe First Nations 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. Some of these nations include the Coos, Hupa, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc, Takelma, Shasta, Siuslaw, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, Yahooskin, and Yurok nations. In the future, we hope to expand the collection by continuing to add materials on these and other tribes whose homelands were in, or adjacent to, the Siskiyou-Cascade-Klamath bioregion.
- Huntington Free Library Native American CollectionHosted by Cornell University
- Native American Studies Collection (UC-Berkeley)The purpose of these guides on using Native American Information Resources is to help students and professionals find the useful, meaningful, important, and most objective sources available in the field. Materials addressing Native issues are selected for their honorable representation of the Native American point of view or for their utility, but important resources addressing historical aspects of Native America are often written or edited by U.S. government-sponsored agencies or non-Indians. Therefore, evaluating Native American sources requires special considerations.
- Heard Museum Digital LibraryThe Digital Library represents a virtual selection from the Heard Museum archives and art collection. The Heard Museum has an extensive collection of art, documentary and photographic works on American Indians with an emphasis on Indigenous people in the Greater Southwest.
- National Archives Library Information CenterPage containing links to American history relating to Native Americans
Encyclopedia of Native American History by ISBN: 9780816072507Publication Date: 2011-07-01European explorers reached North America more than 400 years ago, and since that time Native Americans have had to struggle to survive. Yet, despite injustices both past and present, the Native American community has persevered over the centuries. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Native American History offers a comprehensive and authoritative look at the most important individuals, events, and topics in American Indian history. Researchers and students alike will benefit from the in-depth coverage of tribes, notable leaders and events, customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, religion, and more. Covering the period from the first human settlements in the Americas to the present day, this set features black-and-white photographs, an insert of full-color maps, an appendix, and cross-references. Written for high school and college students as well as the general public, this resource will be invaluable to anyone interested in learning about this fascinating topic. Coverage includes: Adena American Indian Movement Art Beaver Wars Black Hawk Buffalo Cahokia Cherokee Code talkers Crazy Horse Disease Foodways Geronimo Hopi Kiowa Longest Walk Maize Medicine Mohawk Music Navajo Pequot War Powwow Removal Act Sacagawea Sioux Jim Thorpe Trail of Tears Wounded Knee.
Native American Art by ISBN: 9781422239377Publication Date: 2017-01-01Art, religion, and function are naturally commingled in the beautiful and useful objects created by the native peoples of North America, and these works reflect a tradition that is still alive -- as evidenced by today's Native American artists -- in not thriving. This volume, illustrated with 119 beautiful full-colour reproductions provides a unique look at the rich variety of Native American art from centuries past to the present day.
Native Americans Today by ISBN: 9780313355554Publication Date: 2010-06-22This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. * 100 biographical entries arranged in an A-Z, encyclopedic format * 50 photographs and illustrations include original artwork
St. James Guide to Native North American Artists by ISBN: 1558622217Publication Date: 1997-09-01Profiling 400 prominent artists of the 20th century, each entry in this reference includes a biographical profile; lists of exhibitions, public galleries and museums; a bibliography of books and articles by and about the entrant; and presents a critical perspective on the artist's work.
Visualities by ISBN: 0870139991Publication Date: 2011-06-01In recent years, works by American Indian artists and filmmakers such as Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Edgar Heap of Birds, Sherman Alexie, Shelley Niro, and Chris Eyre have illustrated the importance of visual culture as a means to mediate identity in contemporary Native America. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Native film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art draws on American Indian Studies, American Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. Among the artists examined are Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Eric Gansworth, Melanie Printup Hope, Jolene Rickard, and George Longfish. Films analyzed include Imprint, It Starts with a Whisper, Mohawk Girls, Skins, The Business of Fancydancing, and a selection of Native Latin films.
Visualities 2 by ISBN: 9781609175986Publication Date: 2019-03-01Echoing and expanding the aims of the first volume, Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, this second volume contains illuminating global Indigenous visualities concerning First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, Maori, and Sami peoples. This insightful collection of essays explores how identity is created and communicated through Indigenous film-, video-, and art-making; what role these practices play in contemporary cultural revitalization; and how indigenous creators revisit media pasts and resignify dominant discourses through their work. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Visualities Two draws on American Indian studies, film studies, art history, cultural studies, visual culture studies, women's studies, and postcolonial studies. Among the artists and media makers examined are Tasha Hubbard, Rachel Perkins, and Ehren "Bear Witness" Thomas, as well as contemporary Inuit artists and Indigenous agents of cultural production working to reimagine digital and social platforms. Films analyzed include The Exiles, Winter in the Blood, The Spirit of Annie Mae, Radiance, One Night the Moon, Bran Nue Dae, Ngati, Shimásání, and Sami Blood.
Focusing on Art
- Art & Architecture Source
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Art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as areas of architecture and architectural design.
- Art & Architecture Archive
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Full-text archive of magazines comprising research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Access is for Art & Architecture Archive Collection 1 and 2.
- Art History Research net
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Art History Research net (formerly Arts: Search) is a resource focused on the study of the history of 19th and 20th century art and design.
- ARTbibliographies Modern
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Specialist bibliography of modern and contemporary art from 1974 to the present.
- Design and Applied Arts Index
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International index to design and craft journals; contains references to 500+ journals published since 1973 and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, etc.
- ProQuest the Arts
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Allows users to search across ProQuest databases with an emphasis on the arts.
- Oxford Art Online
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Encyclopedia articles about artists, architects, and artistic movements & periods, as well as bibliographies for further research. Also includes thousands of searchable images.
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online
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Contains biographical information on more than one million artists. Each article contains information on the artist's creative work, historical significance, details of exhibitions, and bibliographies.
Focusing on American Indians
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America
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Bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous culture, history, and life in North America. Includes more than 350,000 citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
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Covers interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection.
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America
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Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Includes 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
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Covers the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada. The archive includes monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals and photographs. Includes access to Part I and Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986.
- Territorial Papers of the United States (will only work on campus through November 22)Primary source documents from the 1760s to the 1950s, documenting the southward and westward expansion of the US, as the nation acquired territories that spanned from Florida to California to Alaska. Includes official correspondence with Washington, Native American negotiations and treaties, military records, judicial proceedings, population data, financial statistics, land records, and more.
Reference
- Gale eBooks
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Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.
- Oxford Reference Library
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Reference resources from the Oxford University Press. Includes English dictionaries and thesauruses, English language reference books, bilingual dictionaries, quotations, maps and illustrations, timelines and subject reference sources.
General
- OneSearch@IU
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- JSTOR
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Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. - America: History & Life
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Bibliographic database focusing on the history and life of the United States and Canada, indexing more than 1,800 journals published, dissertations and reviews.
- Project Muse
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Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.