Research Guides: Ethnic Studies: American Indian Studies

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Journals

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is an internationally peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. We aim to present scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews and experiences of decolonization from Indigenous perspectives from around the world.

American Indian Culture and Research Journal In print since 1971, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ) is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary journal designed for scholars and researchers. The premier journal in Native American and Indigenous studies, it publishes original scholarly papers and book reviews on a wide range of issues in fields ranging from history to anthropology to cultural studies to education and more. It is published three times per year by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.

American Indian Law Review The American Indian Law Review serves as a nationwide scholarly forum for the presentation and analysis of developments in the law concerning indigenous people and Indian affairs.

American Indian Quarterly The journal is a forum for diverse voices and perspectives spanning a variety of academic disciplines. The common thread is AIQ’s commitment to publishing work that contributes to the development of American Indian studies as a field and to the sovereignty and continuance of American Indian nations and cultures. In addition to peer-reviewed articles, AIQ features reviews of books, films, and exhibits.

BrowZine for Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies A database of academic journals related to Native and Indigenous Studies.

Cultural Survival Quarterly Contains reports on issues of indigenous peoples all over the world and their struggles to preserve their cultural identity and integrity.

NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association this journal provides a dynamic intellectual space for the communication and dissemination of excellent scholarship related to Indigenous Studies.

Native American Times (2009-2018) in NewsBank A Tulsa, OK based newspaper. The Native American Times was launched in 1994 as the Oklahoma Indian Times by Jim Gray (Osage) and Elizabeth Gaines (Cherokee). It was a bi-weekly newspaper distributed throughout Oklahoma.

Nexis Uni Available Titles:

Native American People Treaties, Ratified and Unratified
Native American Solicitor's Opinions

American Indian Studies

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THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN (NMAI)

"The National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native Americans of the Western Hemisphere. The collection includes three-dimensional objects and photographic images. NMAI's distinctive curvilinear architecture, indigenous landscaping, and permanent exhibitions were designed in collaboration with Native peoples from North America, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Museum hosts exhibits, films, educational programs, live performances, and conferences."

From NMAI Home Page http://nmai.si.edu/home/

NMAI ON THE NATIONAL MALL
Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20560
Phone: 202-633-1000
TTY (non-voice): 202-633-5285
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American Indian Studies Databases

Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) A listing of resources related to Native history from the National Archives.

American Indian Histories and Cultures The American Indian Histories and Cultures database contains manuscripts, documents, artwork and rare printed books beginning with the earliest contact with European explorers. This database is organized by American Indian history thematic zones: American Indians and the European Powers; Indigenous Peoples of Mexico; American Indians and the US Government; Military Encounters: Conflicts, Rebellions and Alliances; Observation, Representation and Cultural Encounters; Missionaries and Education; Trade and Indian Economies and the Civil Rights Movement. Digitized resources from the Edward E. Ayer Collection for American Indian Histories and Cultures located at The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Bibliography of Native North Americans Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database containing resources on and about Indigenous American culture, life, and history. The BNNA provides citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents.

Early Encounters in North America The Early Encounters in North America database contains foundation literature on the peoples, cultures and environment of North America. Database contains the accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans at group and personal levels.

EBSCOhost Databases (Native Peoples) A multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching, Select -- Academic Search Complete; America: History & Life; Anthropology Plus; Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA); Chicano Database; eBook Subscription Diversity & Ethnic Studies; Ethnic Diversity Source; Political Science Complete (PSC); Race Relations Abstracts; and Sociological Collection.

Ethnic NewsWatch The Ethnic NewsWatch resource contains newspapers published by and for United States cultural, ethnic, and racial minority groups. This database provides ethnic perspectives on topics of national interest that may vary from mainstream mass media interpretations.

Historical Newspapers Provides researchers in history, politics, economics, business, and the arts access to primary and secondary sources: Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790 to 1905; The Official Index to the Times, 1906 to 1980; The Historical Index to the New York Times 1851 to September 1922: and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870.

Native Americans in History: Part1 I: Newspapers, 1728 - 1922

Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U•X•L titles. This database provides access to primary source articles, reference material, newspapers, statistics, and images covering current political and social issues.

Oxford Bibliographies This bibliographic driven database provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Childhood Studies, Latino Studies, Music, Public Health and other humanities/social science research areas.

Pop Culture Universe Database is a diverse interdisciplinary resource covering; arts and visual culture, business and advertising, ethnic and group culture, fashion, and appearance, film, food and drink, literature, music, politics, recreation and leisure, religion and spirituality, sports, television and radio, and technology and media.

Proquest Indian Claims Insight This database allows users to research the history of U.S. Indian claims from 1789 to present. Includes decisions, transcripts, docket books, journals for the Indian Claims Commission, a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes, and related statutes and congressional publications.

Readers’ Guide Retrospective Database is the best resource for finding popular magazine articles on a variety of subjects. Provides coverage of United States cultural and historical events, 1890-1982.

Web of Science Core Collection Core collection contains records of articles from global research journals including open access journals, conference proceedings, and monographs. Core Collection includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Book Citation Index (BKCI), and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI).

Accessible archives : primary source material from 18th & 19th century periodicals [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Primary source material from 18th & 19th century periodicals from The Lily, Pennsylvania Gazette, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog, Pennsylvania Packet, Pennsylvania Newspaper Record.
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Cllctn Missionaries Letters/1833-1893 This link opens in a new window
We must teach them to think, feel, act, and work. We must form their whole characterâ€”all their religious, moral, intellectual, social and industrial habits. This is the work to be done. Thus states a nineteenth-century Presbyterian missionary to the Indians describing his task. He was convinced that their only hope of survival was to abandon the past and accept Christianity and civilization. His striking words come from the American Indian Correspondence, a collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893.
American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Cllctn Missionaries Letters/1833-1893 This link opens in a new window
We must teach them to think, feel, act, and work. We must form their whole characterâ€”all their religious, moral, intellectual, social and industrial habits. This is the work to be done. Thus states a nineteenth-century Presbyterian missionary to the Indians describing his task. He was convinced that their only hope of survival was to abandon the past and accept Christianity and civilization. His striking words come from the American Indian Correspondence, a collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893.
American Indian Movement And Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new window
Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
American Indian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing variety of publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new window
Enabling exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century, Indigenous Peoples of North America illustrates the fabric of the North American story with unprecedented depth and breadth. Comprehensive yet personal, the collection covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations. Topics of interest include trade and communication, Arctic exploration and tribes, the Iroquois Confederation, Canadian Catholic Indian missions, Indian removal, Indian wars and the frontier army, establishment of the Canadian Indian and Aboriginal Department, Indian delegations and Indian-federal relations, Canadian Indian treaty policy, government boarding and missionary schools and curricula, Dawes Severalty and the allotment system, dances and festivals, Alaskan Indian policies, Indian languages and linguistics, assimilation and the Indian New Deal, relocation, termination, and the Indian Claims Commission, water and fishing rights, civil rights, radicalism, poverty, and the American Indian movement.
Meriam Report On Indian Administration And The Survey Of Conditions Of The Indians In The US This link opens in a new window
This collection comprises two sets of documents that helped the response to 40 years of failed Native American policies. The first is the full text of the report entitled The Problem of Indian Administration, better known as the Meriam Report. The second comprises the 41-part report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs detailing the conditions of life and the effects of policies and programs enacted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Native Americans. Both of these collections provide unique documentary insights into many major tribes: Sioux, Navaho, Quapaw, Chickasaw, Apache, Pueblo, Ute, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kickapoo, Klamath, and many others.

Land

Land acknowledgements are statements that recognize the history of colonization and settling of North America. These statements often act to rectify historical narratives which often exclude appropriate acknowledgment of indigenous land ownership.

Land acknowledgements take different form depending on the location and author of the words.

Ohio State's Newark Earthworks Center is working to develop a land acknowledgement for Ohio State University, they write:

"To date, The Ohio State University does not have an official land acknowledgement statement. In brief, this means that our university has yet to formally recognize the tremendous amount of territory and other forms of wealth that have been taken from Native Americans over the past several hundred years [...]

First, we will recognize the Tribes who were forcibly removed from their historic homes in service to the founding of the state of Ohio. Here, we will acknowledge that territories taken from Tribes such as the Delaware, Miami, Ojibwe, Peoria, Potawatomi, Seneca, Shawnee and Wyandotte were used to build Ohio State’s six campuses.

Second, we will recognize the Tribes whose land was taken – often through brute force or lopsided treaties – and then sold to raise monies that contributed to the establishment of Ohio State University.

Third, we will make certain that the Land Acknowledgement focuses on the past, present and future; that is, recognizing the past wrongdoings, the present harm that continues to be visited upon American Indians, and the future need for Ohio State to engage in ongoing dialogue and reparative activities associated with these injustices.

Fourth and finally, we are working directly with Tribal Leaders and community representatives to ensure that Ohio State’s Land Acknowledgement accurately reflects the perspectives, values and traditions of Tribal communities."

Learn more about the Earthworks' Land Acknowledgement here.

Authors

Web Resource: Native American Authors This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented. The website will continue to expand, adding additional authors, books and web resources.

Digital Maps & Mapping Projects

Landgrab Universities How the United States funded land-grant universities with expropriated Indigenous land.
Native Land Digital An interactive global map to help visualize Indigenous territories.
Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World This project documents the dynamics of dis-appropriation of Native lands between 1776 and 1887

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