Suggested Resources for American Indian Studies

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	America: History and Life (EBSCO)		Index to articles on United States and Canadian history.
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)		Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present
	ERIC (Proquest)		Index to educational materials.
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	First Nations Periodical Index		The First Nations Periodical Index contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content. This Index is a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators, instructors and researchers.
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	LexisNexis Academic		Wide range of news, business, and legal information sources - useful for general reference, general business research, legal research, and tax accounting research
	LexisNexis Legal Research		Search full text federal, state & international legal materials. Updates and coverage vary.
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	Psychology Journals (Proquest CSA)		Full-text of nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields.
	PsycINFO		Indexes more than 1,400 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics and physiology.
	Sage Knowledge (eBooks)		Electronic reference books published by Sage.
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	Social Services Abstracts		Indexes current research articles focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings
	WorldCat.org -- Public Version		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

Web Sites

 

American Indian Learning Resource Center Collection

American Indian Studies Legal Resources

Links to treaties, legal information databases, guides and handbooks to American Indian law

Code Talk

Federal government inter-agency web site for Native American communities

Index of Native American Resources on the Web (WWW Virtual Library)

Links to web sites on American Indian history, education, arts, languages, health, and music

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

Native American Web Sites

Links to home pages of Native American nations and organizations and other related resources

Ojibwe People's Dictionary

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers.

United States History Primary Sources Online

Full-text online historical documents including several sites related to American Indians

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7880

L274

University of Minnesota

416 Library Drive

Duluth MN 55812-2495