Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Other Reference Materials

Reference Materials help to give quick, short information. Below are some print materials available in the Yale Libraries. See also Where To Find Basic Biographical Information and To Check Facts (online) in the Library Research Guide.

American Indian Law Deskbook: Conference of Western Attorneys General. Ed. Joseph P. Mazurek et al. Niwot, CO: UP of Colorado, 1998. SML, Stacks KF8205 A76X 1998.

American Indian reference book. Portage, Michigan: Earth, 1976. KLINE, Anthropology E76.2 A43 (LC)

American Indians. Markowitz, Harvey, ed. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1995.
SML, Reference E76.2 A436 1995 (LC) v.1-v.3

Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. New York; Cambridge UP, 1996. SML, Reference E77 C15 1996.

Cashmore, Ernest. Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. New York: Routledge, 1996. SML, Stacks GN496 C37X 1996.

Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas. Newport Beach, CA: American Indian Publishers, 1993. SML, Stacks E54.5 +D53X 1993.

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Ed. David Levinson, Melvin Ember. New York: Henry Holt, 1996. SML, Reference GN307 +E52X 1996.

Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Ed. Frederich E. Hoxie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. SML, Reference: E76.2 E53X 1996 (LC).

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Eds. Judy Galens, Anna Sheets, Robyn V. Young, Rudolph J. Vecoli. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995. SML, Stacks E184 A1 +G245 1995.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Eds. Sharon Malinowski, et al. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 4 v. SML, Reference E77 +N368 1998.

Green, Rayna with Melanie Fernandez. The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. SML, Reference E76.2 +G74 1999.

Handbook of North American Indians. Ed. William C. Sturtevant. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978). SML Reference: E76.2 +H36 (LC). Also in CCL, Reference.
*An encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America. Each volume comprises essays by specialists on specific aspects of Indian life, with extensive bibliography and detailed index.

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Ed. Stephan Thernstrom. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1980). SML, Reference: E184 A1 +H358 (LC). Also in CCL, Reference. *Consists of signed essays on ethnic groups which touch on origins, migration, arrival, settlement, economic and social life, religion, culture, education, politics, and maintenance of ethnicity.

Johnson, Michael. The native tribes of North America : a concise encyclopedia. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Macmillan; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1994. SML, Reference E76.2 J64X 1994 (LC)+

Klein, Barry T. Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian. 11th ed. Nyack, N.Y.: Todd Publications, 2004. SML, Reference E76.2 .R44 2004 (LC).

Native America in the twentieth century : an encyclopedia. Ed. Mary B. Davis. New York : Garland Pub., 1994. DIVINITY, Day Missions Room, Reference E76.2 N36 1994 (LC) +

Native Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998. SML, Stacks E77 +P758 1998.

Native American studies. Compiled by the Choice editorial staff. Middletown, CT : Choice, 1992. SML, Stacks Z1209.2 N67 N38X 1992 (LC)+

Native America : portrait of the peoples. Duane Champagne, ed. Detroit : Visible Ink Press, 1994. CCL, Stacks E77 N354 1994 (LC)

The New Encyclopedia of the American West. Ed. Howard R. Lamar. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. SML, Reference F591 +R38 1998 Also in CCL, Reference, and Beinecke, Reference.

Nies, Judith. Native American History: A Chronology of the Vast Achievements of a Culture and Their Links to World Events. (New York: Ballantine Books: 1996).
SML, Reference: E77 N56X 1996 (LC).

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