Native American
Indian Studies Research Guide
Reference Materials
Reference materials
provide background or factual information on a topic.
Most reference
sources are located in the Reference area on the Main Floor of the W.E.B.
Du Bois Library (one flight down from the Entrance Floor). Listed
here are some particularly useful Native American Indian Studies reference
sources.
Atlases
| Bibliographies | Biographical
Resources
| Dictionaries
| Directories
| Encyclopedias
and Guides | Topical Reference Materials:
Civil
Rights,
History
and Archaeology, Literature,
Folklore, Mythology, Religion, Art, Healing |
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Atlases
Atlas
of Oil and Gas Plays on American Indian Reservations: Northern Rocky Mountain
Tribes (Gov. Docs. I 20.2/2-2:AT 65X OVERSIZE)
Atlas
of the North American Indian (Ref. E77 .W195 2000)
Atlas
of the Lewis & Clark Expedition (Special Collections G1380 .C55
1983 Folio)
Bibliographies
American
Indian Studies: a Bibliographic Guide (Z1209
.W52 1995)
Indians
of the United States and Canada: a Bibliography (Ref. Z1209.2.N67
I52 v.1-2)
Biographical
Resources
Biographical
Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900
(Ref E89.W35 2001)
Encyclopedia
of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People
from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller (Ref: E89.J69 1997)
Native
North American Biography (Ref. E89 .N395 1996 v.1-2)
Dictionaries
Dictionaries and
glossaries for Native American languages are found under the specific
language. For example:
Delaware-English/English-Delaware
Dictionary (PM1033 .O43 1996)
Glossary
of the Mohegan-Pequot Language (PM1885.P8 A25 1999 )
The
Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary (PM2007 .Y75
1987)
A
Thousand Words of Mohawk (PM1883 .M5 )
Directories
and Catalogs
Financial
Aid for Native Americans (Ref. LB2338.F5646)
Native
Americans Information Directory (Ref. E76.2 .N38)
Encyclopedias
and Guides
The W.E.B. Du Bois
Library contains many encyclopedias for Native American Indian Studies.
Here are just a few.
Encyclopedia
of Massachusetts Indians: Tribes, Nations, and People of the Plains Eastern
Woodlands (E78.M4 E63 1999)
Encyclopedia
of Native American Tribes (Ref. E76.2.W35
1999)
Encyclopedia
of North American Indians (Ref E76.2.E53 1997,v1-11)
Encyclopedia
of North American Indians (online
one volume book)
Handbook
of North American Indians (Ref. E77.H36. Library has volumes 4-13,15,17)
Native
Americans: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples (Ref.
E77.P89 1998, v.1-2)
Tiller's
Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations
(Ref. E93 .T55 2005)
Topical
Reference Materials
Civil
Rights
The
ABC-CLIO Companion to the Native American Rights Movement
(KF8203.36 G76 1996)
Encyclopedia
of American Indian Civil Rights (Ref. KF8210.C5 E53 1997)
History
and Archaeology
The
Ancient Americans: a Reference Guide to the Art, Culture, and History
of Pre-Columbian North and South America (Ref.
E59.P42 S3613 2000 c.1-2)
Archaeology
of Prehistoric Native America: an Encyclopedia (Ref. E77.9 .A72
1998)
The
Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History (Ref E98.E2 E52
1999)
Historical
Dictionary of North American Archaeology (Ref: E77.9 H57 1988)
Literature,
Folklore, Mythology, Religion, Art, Healing
The
Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture
in Africa, Oceania,
and Native North America (Ref. E98.A7 W49
2000)
Dictionary
of Native American Literature (Ref PM155.D53 1994)
Dictionary
of Native American Mythology (Ref E98.R3 G46 1992)
Encyclopedia
of American Indian Costume (Ref E98.C8 P37 1994)
Encyclopedia
of Native American Healing (Ref. E76.2 .R4 1995)
Encyclopedia of
Native American Religions: An Introduction (Ref E98.R3 H73 2000)
Native
North American Literature: Biographical and Critical Information on Native
Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical
Times to the Present (Ref. PS508.I5 N38 1994)
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(click to access)
Searchable
collection of online reference books on a wide range of general reference
titles, together with a large collection of subject-specific books spanning
20 topics. Available
on Library computers to all. Available off-campus to UMass Amherst students,
faculty, staff, and affiliates with an OIT
account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted.
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