Research Guides -- History:
Native American History
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Databases / Internet Resources /Bibliographic
List (Rico) / Bibliographic List (Pollack)
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MATC Libraries Online Catalog - Webcat
Provides access to books, magazines, Reserve material, audio-visual material
(for example, videos), and web resources Search by subject or keyword.
Most books regarding Native American history will be located
in the 900’s circulating collection in the back of the library. Search by name of tribe (ex. Sioux) or for general works, use the subject search:
Indians of North America. For biographical information, search by name ex. Sacagawea
or Black Elk.
Reference Books
Books in the reference collection are for use in the library. A few examples are listed below. Click on a title to see if it is available in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
R970.00497 AM512B
American Indian history / edited by Carole A. Barrett
R975.00497 P433
The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Southeast / Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.
970.00497 AM512R
American Indian tribes
R970.00497 H23
Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant.
Multivolume set from the Smithsonian Institution.
R970.00497 EN56
Encyclopedia of North American Indians / Frederick E. Hoxie.
Other Library Catalogs can also be accessed from MATC libraries web page.
Search the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries catalog- MadCat which includes holdings at the Wisconsin State Historical Library & Archives. UW Borrowing Card: The MATC Libraries have an agreement with the UW-Madison Libraries to provide a borrowing card free of charge to MATC students. Stop in at any of the MATC Libraries to learn more and fill out the form.
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JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals. Titles include: American Historical Review
1895-1994, American Quarterly 1949-1995, Journal of American History 1964-1994,
Journal of Military History 1989-1996, Journal of Modern History 1929-1994,
Anthropology Today 1985-1994, and others.
Ethnic
Newswatch
Use this database to find articles from native publications including
Native Americas, Navajo Times, Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), Cherokee
Advocate, News from Indian Country, and others.
Academic Search Elite or Expanded Academic ASAP or Academic Onefile
Use these academic databases to find articles from scholarly and historical journals. Full-text titles include History Today, History Review, American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Social History, and others. Also MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) may have some useful articles or book reviews.
Proquest All Collections
Full-text of national newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune; Selected Wisconsin newspapers including the Wisconsin State Journal, Captial Times, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; plus other national, ethnic press, local, and international newspapers and other publications. Proquest Historical Newspapers (below) must be searched separately.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Chicago Defender (1921-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985), New York Times(1851 – three years prior to present year )
Full page images of the Chicago Defender , Chicago Tribune, New York Times. Complete with illustrations, advertisements, obituaries, etc. as they appeared in the newspaper at that time.
ARTstor
ARTstor's “Native American Art and Culture” collection includes more than 10,000 high resolution images made from historic photographs documenting Native American subjects and a collection of high resolution images of ca. 2,000 Plains Indian ledger drawings.
Discovering Collection (Gale Group - also known as Infotrac)
Covers the core curricular areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science and Social Studies. Possible source for information about authros. Current Biography (HW Wilson)
More than 15,000 full text biographies and more than 9,400 obituaries | 1940 - present | Possible source for information about authors.
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection - University of Washington
Check the Documents collection for over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
American Memory: Native American collections
digitized collections from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Native%20American%20History
The Black Hawk War of 1832 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/index.html
Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties
Historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and
executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover
U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and
U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes
I, III-VII).
The journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / edited by Gary E. Moulton. Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. Nebraska edition
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/
Lakota Winter Counts from the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution
http://wintercounts.si.edu/
NativeWeb
http://www.nativeweb.org/
Information about Native Americans with a directory of web sites
Portrayals
of Native Americans
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/portrayals.html
Digital collection from the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Southeastern
Native American Documents, 1730-1842, Digital Library of Georgia
This collection contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to
the Native American population of the Southeastern United States. The documents
are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers,
and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Native American Portal
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=1891
Humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet.
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Citations
Chicago Style Citations
MATC Libraries History Research Guide
Knightcite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
This is a free citation-producing service (MLA , APA, and Chicago) created by the Heckman Library at Calvin College.
MATC Virtual Writing Center
http://matcmadison.edu/is/writingcenter/
The MATC Writing Center is available to all students at MATC who have writing needs. The Center hopes to provide support and assistance to students from all programs and departments in which teachers assign writing projects.
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