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The New Encyclopaedia Britannica REF AE5 .E363
The World Book Encyclopedia REF AE5 .W55
The Encyclopedia Of Religion REF BL31 .E46
Handbook of the Indians of California REF E51 .U6 No. 78
Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas
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E54.5 .D5
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E54.5 .E52 Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas REF E54.5 .D53
American Indians REF E76.2 .A45
Encyclopedia of North American Indians REF E76.2 .E53
Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships REF E76.2 .H43
Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian REF E76.2 .K58
Native Americans Information Directory REF E76.2 .N38
Word Dance: the Language of Native American Culture REF E76.2 .W36
Chronology of Native North American History: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present REF E77 .C555
The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes REF E77 .G15
Handbook of North American Indians REF E77 .H25
The Native American Almanac: a Portrait of Native America Today REF E77 .H59
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico REF E77 .H6
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas REF E77 .N62
Native North American Firsts REF E77 .S96
Great Documents In American Indian History REF E77.2 .M66
Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights REF KF8210.C5 E53 1997
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Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980 REF E78 .S7 B15
Notable Native Americans REF E89 .N67
The American Indian and the United States; A Documentary History REF E93 .W27
American Indian Art: Form and Tradition REF E98 .A7 A44
Indian Art in America, the Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian REF E98 .A7 D57
St. James Guide to Native North American Artists REF E98 .A7 S8
Native Time: a Historical Time Line of Native America REF E98 .C55 F73
Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume REF E98 .C8 P37
Encyclopedia of Native American Healing REF E98 .M4 L96
Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism: Sacred Ceremonies of North America REF E98 .M4 L98
Statistical Record of Native North Americans REF E98 .P76 S76
Dictionary of Native American Mythology REF E98 .R3 G46
The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: an Introduction REF E98 .R3 H73
Native American Issues: a Reference Handbook REF E98 .T77 T56
Native American Issues: a Reference Handbook REF E98 .T77 T56
A to Z of Native American Women REF E98 .W8 S65
A Handbook of American Minorities REF E184 .A1
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America REF E184 .A1 G14
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups REF E184 .A1 H35
Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites REF E184 .A1 R78
Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans REF PS663 .M55 V64
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: an Encyclopedia REF E77.9 .A72 |
Getting More Information on Your Topic
Once you have done your background research you will be ready to conduct more comprehensive research using books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and the Internet.
Books
Use the Library Catalog to find books available in the Cerritos College Library. Books can provide a broad overview of a topic or in-depth information.
You can search for books by author, title, subject, or keyword. Try a Subject search for a particular culture or tribe such as:
Miwok, Hopi, Apache, Inuit, Iroquois, Huron, Seminole, Navajo, Mohawk, etc.
Other useful Subject searches include:
Indians
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation
Indians of North America-- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Land tenure
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Journals and magazines
usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles
are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be
shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly
or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional
facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the
indexes listed below. See the Library Internet Resources handout
for a complete description of our online resources.
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Online
Indexes http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html
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Print
Indexes
Shelved
In Reference Section Readers’ Guide Social Sciences Index New York Times Index Los Angeles Times Index |
Internet Sites
The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.
Library of Congress –
Indians of North America
http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/indians/indians.html
Native American Nations
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/nations.html
Encyclopedia of North American Indians
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_000107_entries.htm
American Indians and the Natural World
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Native American Resources
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm
Native American Sites
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
www.hanksville.org/NAresources
American Indian Studies
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/
American Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic Change Between the 1990 and 2000 Censuses
Trailtribes.org: History with a Tribal Perspective Along Trails Followed by Lewis & Clark
Native American Resources on the
Internet
http://www.sosu.edu/lib/subnativeamerican.htm
SA, LN 9/2002, Rev SW & LG 08/05
Web Author:
Lorraine Gersitz (lgersitz@cerritos.edu)
