Native American Studies

Evaluating Web Site
Internet Indexes, Databases, Bibliographies
Government Documents
Other Resources
PUL Databases
Tribal Web Sites
Lists of Resources

Evaluating Web Site Quality and Authority

Evaluating American Indian Web Sites: Created and maintained by Elaine Cubbins, this site gives a Native American perspective on web sites about Native Americans and the information they contain.

Selected Purdue Libraries Databases for Native American Studies

America: History and Life: Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of book and media reviews, and dissertations covering the history of what is now the United States and Canada for all time periods. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. All abstracts are in English. Every year about 16,000 new entries are added. Includes some 6,000 citations of book and media reviews.
American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is the correct title for this database ["Sabin Americana Collection"]: searchable full-text of works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets and other documents about North, Central and South America, including accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, Native Americans, and much more. Based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana.
Anthropology Plus: indexes over 2500 journals in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and interdisciplinary studies.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC): A bibliographic database sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier source for education-related research, documents, and journal articles.
Eighteenth Century Collections online: full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century, 1701-1800.
Ethnic NewsWatch: Provides access to full-text articles from 200 magazines, journals, and newspapers published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Searchable in both English and Spanish.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide: The database is a comprehensive resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. It provides over 235,000+ abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSD. It provides comprehensive information in family social sciences on one database. About 9,000 abstracts are added each year.
GPO Access: Authorized by Public Law 103-40, GPO Access contains the full text of major U.S. Government legal, legislative, and regulatory information sources such as the United States Code, congressional bills, committee reports on legislation, bill status information, the Congressional Record, General Accounting Office reports the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register.
GPO Index: Government Printing Office (GPO) is an index to U.S. congressional, judicial and executive information from 1976-present.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database provides abstracts and indexing for over 800 journals, with nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, focusing on many medical disciiplines, with an emphasis on nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to drug monographs for U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
HRAF~ eHRAF Collection of Ethnography: (Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics) This database published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), is a full-text, fully-indexed cultural database. It focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. eHRAF differs from and other databases because the documents (e.g. books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level with over 700 subject codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: This database covers a wide range of disciplines, including language, linguistics, acoustics, anthropology, communications, comparative literature, education, ethnology, information science, medicine, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. Coverage is 1973 to present.
MEDLINE: This resource covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Indexes over 3,700 journals.
OmniFile Full Text Mega : (General database with some major Anthropology journals. Combines the Social Sciences Abstracts and the Humanities Abstracts with other databases.) This database provides cover-to-cover indexing for 492 key international English language periodicals in the Social Sciences and 500 English language periodicals in the Humanities. It is updated weekly with coverage from 1983 to the present. Abstracting begins with material in 1994.
Sociological Abstracts: This database covers the world's serial literature in sociology and related disciplines and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations from the Sociological Abstracts and SOPODA. Approximately 1600 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries are abstracted in this resource.
MLA International Bibliography: International coverage of the modern languages and literatures, including film and folklore. Indexes jounal articles, and book chapters in all languages, and N. American dissertations. Does not index book reviews. start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Web of Science: This database includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977.

Selected Free Internet Indexes, Databases, Bibliographies

Bureau of American Ethnology: A basic author and title index to the publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Canadian Treaty Information: From the Canadian Government's Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is this site that contains full text treaties, claims, and agreements.
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties: Compiled and Edited by Charles J. Kappler and produced by the Oklahoma State University Library, this site is both full text and fully searchable covering up to 1913.
Indian Land Cessions: This American History Project contains all sixty-seven maps from the 1899 paper, Indian Land Cessions in the United States. It was complied by Charles C. Royce. The paper appeared in the 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97, by J. W. Powell, Director - In Two Parts - Part 2. Printed in Washington, by the Government Printing Office, 1899.
Native American Authors: Thanks to the Internet Public Library which is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information, 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.
Paris Codex: From the Northwestern University Library, this site contains a digital version of an ancient Maya hieroglyphic book called the Paris Codex. The images were taken from a photographic record of the ancient book, created by Theodore A. Willard in 1933. The original is still preserved today at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, France. It is one of only four pre-Columbian Maya hieroglyphic manuscripts that have survived the book burnings of the Spanish Conquest.
Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: The National Archives and Records Administartion holds the archives of the BIA.
Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans: The Yale Law School. This site is dedicated to providing access via theWorld Wide Web to primary source materials concerning treaties between the United States and n\Native Americans.

Native American Nations, Tribal, & Organizations Web Sites

Native American Nations: Created and maintained by Lisa A. Mitten, this site is a collection of links to tribal web sites or sites about tribal groups created and maintained primarily by tribal members.
National Congress of American Indians: The oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United States. NCAI serves as a forum for consensus-based policy development among its membership of over 250 tribal governments from every region of the country.
Native American Organizations and Urban Indian Centers: This is a piece of Lisa A. Mitten's site which has been seperated out here because of the subject of the page.
List of Federally Non-Recognized Tribes: Maintained by Troy Johnson of California State University, Long Beach, this site is a listing of Indian tribes in the United States that are not recognized by the federal government as "Indian Tribes."

Government Agencies/Documents

Canadian Government Indian Affairs: Maintained by Bert Chapman of the Purdue University Libraries, this site lists links to Canada´s federal, provincial, and territorial government agencies dealing with Indian affairs reflecting Canada´s historic and contemporary relationship with its indigenous inhabitants.
Government Documents on American Indians: Maintained by Bert Chapman of the Purdue University Libraries, this is a resource guide to U.S. Government documents dealing with Native Americans.
American Indians: Legal and Regulatory Sources: Maintained by Bert Chapman of the Purdue University Libraries, this is a resource guide to publications containing laws and regulations relevant to Native Americans.

Links to Lists of Resources

American Indian Resources: From Cowboy.Net is this list of links.
American Indian Resources: A library of Native American Literature, culture, education, history, issues and language: From Will Karkavelas of Osaka University comes this list of links.
American Indian History and Related Issues: From the American Indian Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach, and created by Troy Johnson, this site is dedicated to the presentation of unique artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central America and Mexico.
Anthropology: A list of links with some relavence to Native American Studies with content provided by David Hovde of the Purdue University Libraries.
Archaeology: A list of links with some relavence to Native American Studies with content provided by David Hovde of the Purdue University Libraries.
Indian Country Today: Since 1981, Indian Country Today has been a persuasive voice in Native American journalism, leading the way with definitive reporting, incisive analysis and pointed commentary. Indian Country Today publishes more original journalistic content on American Indian issues - written by a sizeable full time staff of American Indian and non-native reporters with extensive experience in Native communities - than any other news source.
Linguistics: A list of links with some relavence to Native American Studies maintained by David Hovde of the Purdue University Libraries.
Native Media: Another creation of Lisa A. Mitten, this page is alist of links to web sites dealing with native American media resources.
Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.