Native American Studies Research Guide

Bibliographies

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Answers to questions about the American Indian and suggested reading lists. Washington, D.C.: United States Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1963.
EPH, Stacks RA448.5 964US

Bataille, Gretchen, Miguel Carranza, and Laurie Lisa. Ethnic Studies in the United States: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1996.
SML, Reference E184 A1 B275X 1996.

Bibliography of American ethnology. Cashman, Marc, ed. & Barry Klein, research ed. Bicentennial 1st ed. Rye, N.Y. : Todd Publications, c1976.
KSL, Anthropology Z1361 E4 C38 (LC). Also available through LSF

Bieder, Robert E. Contemplating others : cultural contacts in red and white America ; an annotated bibliography on the North American Indian. Berlin : John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, 1990.
SML, Stacks Z1209.2 N67 B54X 1990 (LC)

California Indian Library Collections Bibliographies

Chamberlain, Kathleen. Wild Westerners: A Bibliography. Albuquerque: Center for the American West, U. of New Mexico, 1998.
SML, Stacks F591 +C47 1998.

Culture contact, with special reference to the Indians of North America : an annotated bibliography. G. L. McDiarmid, ed. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1967.
LSF Z1209 C85 1967 (LC)+

De Puy, Henry F. A bibliography of the English colonial treaties with the American Indians, including a synopsis of each treaty by Henry F. De Puy. New York, Printed for the Lenox club, 1917.
SML, Stacks X403 917d
BEINECKE, Reference
SML, Franklin Collection

Dunn, Lynn P. American Indians : a study guide and sourcebook. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1975.
LSF E77 D88 (LC)+

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment contains primary sources and documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850 focusing on personal accounts, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. It includes works by American Indians as well as a wide range of Europeans. The database includes prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies.

Europeans in the American West since 1800: A Bibliography. Comp. Florence R. J. Goulesque. Albuquerque: Center for the American West, 1995.
SML, Stacks Z1609 E87 +G685 1995.

Fenton, William N. American Indian and white relations to 1830, needs & opportunities for study; an essay. A bibliography by L.H. Butterfield, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and William N. Fenton. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. by the University of North Carolina Press, 1957.
CCL, Stacks Z1209 F45

The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. Ed. Jon Tuska. Jefferson: McFarland, 1984.
SML, Reference Z1251 W5 F76 1984
CCL, Reference

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr. The racial and ethnic presence in American Methodism : a bibliography. Madison, N.J. : General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, 1991.
DIVINITY, Trowbridge Reference Room Z7845.M5 G73 1991 (LC)

Griffiths, Curt Taylor, Linda F. Weafer, and Gregory N. Williams. Native North Americans -- crime, conflict and criminal justice : a research bibliography. Vancouver (B.C.): Criminology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, 1982.
SML, Stacks Z1209.2 N6 G75 (LC)

Haas, Marilyn L. Indians of North America : methods and sources for library research. Hamden, CT : Library Professional Publications, 1983.
SML, Reference Z1209 H22 1983 (LC)
KSL, Anthropology

Hargrett, Lester. A bibliography of the constitutions and laws of the American Indians, by Lester Hargrett, with an introd. by John R. Swanton. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1947.
SML, Stacks X403 947h
BEINECKE, Reference
KSL, Anthropology Z1209 H37 (LC)

Hirschfelder, Arlene B. Guide to Research on North American Indians. Chicago: ALA, 1983.
SML, Reference Z1209.2 N67 H57 1983.

Hodge, William. A bibliography of contemporary North American Indians : selected and partially annotated with study guide. New York : Interland Pub., 1976.
SML, Reference Z1209.2 N67 H6 (LC)
KSL, Anthropology

Howard, N. Jill. Navajos Apaches and Pueblos Since 1940: A Selective Bibliography. Albuquerque: Center for the American West, 1995.
SML, Stacks E78 S7 +H69 1995.

Hoxie, Frederick E. and Harvey Markowitz. Native Americans : an annotated bibliography. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1991.
SML, Stacks Z1209.2 N67 H68X 1991 (LC)

Indians of the United States and Canada : a bibliography. Smith, Dwight L., ed. Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, 1974- .
SML, Reference Z1209.2 N67 I52 (LC)+ v.1-v.2

Indians : wars and local disturbances. Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Dept. of the Interior : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1979]
MUDD, Government Documents Center I 20.48:W 26

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is a multiSearch is the federated search module that allows a single point of access to electronic resources, including electronic journals, bibliographic databases, web portals, OPACs.

Kerri, James N. American Indians (U.S. & Canada): a bibliography of contemporary studies and urban research. Monticello, Ill., Council of Planning Librarians: 1973 F&ES
Z5942 C68 376-377+

------ American Indians (U.S. and Canada): a bibliography of contemporary studies and urban research. Supplement to the general bibliography section. Monticello, Ill., Council of Planning Librarians, 1974.
SML, Stacks Xj84 +C83E 594

Kluckhohn, Clyde, and Katherine Spencer. A bibliography of the Navaho Indians. New York, J.J. Augustin [c1940].
SML, Stacks X403 N22 940

Martin, M. Marlene and Timothy J. O'Leary. Ethnographic bibliography of North America. 4th edition supplement, 1973-1987. New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press, 1990.
SML, Reference Z1209 M87 1990 Suppl (LC)+ v.1-v.3.

Miller, Wayne Charles. A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities. New York: New York UP, 1976. 2 v.
SML, Reference Z1361 E4 +M52. Also in SML, Andrews Study Z1361 E4 +M529.

MLA Bibliography contains critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.

Murdoch, George Peter and Timothy J. O'Leary. Ethnographic bibliography of North America. 4th ed. New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press, 1975.
SML, Reference Z1209 M87 1975 (LC)+ v.1-v.5

Nordquist, Joan. Native American woman : social, economic and political aspects : a bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA : Reference and Research Services, 1999.
SML, Stacks Z1209.2 U5 N67 1999 (LC)

Paul, Rodman Wilson. The Frontier and the American West. Arlington Heights: AHM, 1977.
SML, Reference Z1251 W5 P38
SML, Andrews Study

Racism in the United States: A Comprehensive Classified Bibliography. Comp. Meyer Weinberg. New York: Greenwood, 1990.
SML, Reference Z1361 E4 R33 1990.

Smith, Dwight La Vern. The American and Canadian West: A Bibliography. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1979.
SML, Reference Z1251 W5 +S64.

Wagner, Henry P. The Plains & the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West, 1800-1865. 4th ed. San Francisco: J. Howell, 1982.
SML, Stacks Z1251 W5 W35 1982.

White, Phillip M. American Indian studies : a bibliographic guide. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
SML, Reference Z1209 W52X 1995 (LC)

Wolf, Carolyn E. Indians of North and South America, a bibliography based on the collection at the Willard E. Yager Library-Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Lanham: Scarecrow, 1997.
SML, Reference Z1209 W83X 1997.

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