ANNE M. HOLLAND MEMORIAL LIBRARY at Our Lady of the Elms High School

Pathfinder:  Native American Indians

In the Library:

Search the library catalog using the term "indians of north america"

Browse the shelves at these Dewey numbers:      

Check in the Reference section for the U•X•L encyclopedia of Native American tribes at Ref 970.00497 UXL. 

Databases:

American National Biography for biographical information on famous Native Americans

EBSCOhost  magazine and newspaper articles from over 6,000 sources.

Encyclopedia Britannica  search for "native american indians"

Gale Student Resource Center  

SIRS Discoverer  search for "native americans"

Destroying the Native American Cultures

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/native_american.html

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html 

This photo collection has been called "one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced." Includes over 1,500 illustrations and more than 700 portfolio plates. You can search by keyword or browse by subject, Native American tribe or geographic location, or volume. Images are presented as thumbnails with a few notes. Part of the Library of Congress' "American Memory" collection.

First Nations Histories

http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html

Histories of tribes from throughout the U.S. and Canada, with links at the end of each article to official tribal sites.

Languages

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/natlang.html

Links to resources about Native American languages.

National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/

From the Smithsonian Institute, links to exhibits and text files.

Native American Myths and Legends

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/myths.html

Traditional tales, searchable by geographic area (i.e., Woodland Tribes, Plains Tribes). Links to full-text versions of numerous tales.

Native American Navigator
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/naha/nanav.html
The Native American Navigator is an interface for geographical, historical, topical and keyword-based student inquiry on topics related to Native American history and culture in the United States. Clickable maps, an extensive timeline, a web of topics pages and a site & network-wide search page make the four corners of the Navigator's Medicine Wheel.

Native American Sites

http://nativeculture.com/lisamitten/indians.html 

A great place to start. Compiled by Lisa Mitten, a mixed-blood Mohawk urban Indian and a librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. Provides access to home pages of individual Native Americans and Nations, and to other sites that provide information about American Indians.

NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
http://www.nativetech.org/
An award-winning site that has a lot of articles and special features on themes from clothing to housing to food of the Eastern Woodlands Peoples.

Tribes by State
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maps/tribesbystate.html
Get a listing of what Native American tribes live in what state.