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Search Terms
These selected terms can be used to search Voyager, our online catalog, for material our library has or
for searching for magazine, journal and newspaper articles using one of the library's indexes and databases.

Alaskan Indian-s American Indian-s Amerindian-s Apache Chickasaw
Chippewa Cherokee Choctaw Creek First Nations People
Huron Indian-s Indians of North America Indians of the United States Inuit
Kiowa Native American-s Natives Navajo Nez Perce
Pima Sioux Winnebago    

Harper Library Materials
  • Reference

Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian. REF E76.2 .R4 2003

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Reference library of Native North America. REF E76.2 .R43 2001

Who was who in Native American history: Indians and non-Indians from early contacts through 1900. REF E89 .W35 1990

Encyclopedia of Native Americans. REF E76.2 .W35 1988

Encyclopedia of Native American religions: an introduction. REF E98 .R3 H73 1992

Native American painters of the twentieth century: the works of 61 artists. REF E98 .P23 H46 1995

ABC-CLIO companion to the Native American Rights movement. REF KF8203.36 .G76 1996

Native American women: a contextual. REF Z1209.2 .N67 G75 1983

Dictionary of Native American mythology. REF .R3 G46 1992

Native American women writers. REF PS153.I52 N38 1998

Native American women: a biographical dictionary. REF E98 .W8 B38 1993

Native American studies. REF Z1209.2 .N67 N38 1992

Native North American literature. REF PS508.I5 N38 1994

Native Americans in children's literature. REF PS173.I6 S76 1995

Native Americans on film and video. REF PN1995.9 .I48 N37 1981

  • Mainstacks

Sixteen Extraordinary Native Americans. E89 .L63 1997

  • Videos/DVD's
  • Journals

* Indicates Purchased with a Resources for Excellence Grant from the Harper College Educational Foundation.

Statistical Resources

MEDLINEplus: Native American Health
"MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions."

Web Journals and Articles

U.S. Government Resources

State and Local Resources

Organizations

AIM: American Indian Movement
AIM's primary objective is Primary objective is to encourage self-determination among American Indians
and to establish international recognition of American Indian treaty rights.

Americans for Indian Opportunities
"Americans for Indian Opportunities creates coalitions among tribes and between Indians and non-Indians to enrich the cultural, political, and economic self-sufficiency of all Native Americans. AIO relies on the talent and knowledge of partners and associates to help increase the role and participation of tribal governments and Native Americans in the United States."

National American Indian Heritage Foundation
"The American Indian Heritage Foundation was established to provide relief services to Indian people nationwide and to build bridges of understanding and friendship between Indian and non-Indian people."

National Indian Education Association
"The mission of the National Indian Education Association is to support traditional Native cultures and values, to enable Native learners to become contributing members of their communities, to promote Native control of educational institutions, and to improve educational opportunities and resources for American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians throughout the United States."

Native Peoples Magazine
The official publication and benefit of membership of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution.

Related Links

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Native American History and Culture
The Smithsonian's selective listing of resources on a variety of topics relating to Native Americans.


National Museum of the American Indian
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the NMAI was established by an act of Congress in 1989 and "is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans."

Native American Rights Fund

Native American Sites
Site is maintained by Lisa Mitten, a librarian at University of Pittsburgh. Links to other sites by topic
including individual nations, native media, native businesses, etc

Native Links
From ASU's American Indian Institute.

Native Web
NativeWeb exists to utilize the Internet to educate the public about Indigenous cultures and issues, and to promote communications between Indigenous peoples and organizations supporting their goals and efforts. Focus is currently geared towards the Western Hemisphere.


WWW Virtual Library - Native Americans

Last Updated 07/29/07