American Indian Studies: Getting Started with Research  Tags: research american_indian native_american indians articles e-journals biography  

Items listed here are basic research tools useful for finding journal, magazine, and newspaper articles relevant to American Indian studies.

Biography Resource Center
If you're looking for biographical information, check here first!  Full-text biographical entries on prominent  individuals; sources for entries are various well-known biographical reference materials (Notable Native Americans, Contemporary Authors, etc.) from the Gale publishing group, along with supplemental material from magazine and journal articles.  Also supports a "Biographical Facts Search," which allows searching by ethnic group, occupation, and other variables.  Some entries include photographs.

Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (REF E77 G15 1998)
Many American Indian encyclopedias are organized by tribes and regions, such as this one.  Many more encyclopedias like this multivolume set are shelved in the same general area in the Refernece Collection, so you can browse.

Handbook of North American Indians (REF E77 .H25)
Similar to an encyclopedia, this source gives you good historical background information on various tribes.  Authoritative essays and bibliographies comprise this massive twenty-volume set, some of which has yet to be published. Most volumes published to date focus on a particular cultural area (such as the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northwest Coast, California, the Southwest, and the Great Basin area); other volumes focus on language and race relations between American Indians and whites. From the Smithsonian Institute.  Use the index in back of each volume to pinpoint topics of interest within that volume.

Not all American Indian studies journals are available online; many important titles remain in print only! These include the prestigious American Indian Culture & Research Journal, published by UCLA. To find the Library's print and electronic journals relevant to American Indian Studies, search the Library Catalog by Subject Keyword, using these terms: indians and periodicals  You can also use Find e-Journal to search for titles.