Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, general editor.
  Ref E77 H25
• Encyclopedia of Native American Religions:  an introduction /Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette Molin.
  Ref E98.R3 H73 1992
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of reference books.  You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.
• Oxford Reference Online:  Another online collection of online reference books.  This includes dictionaries of the Buddhism, politics, world religion, and more.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “American Indians and history” and subjects such as “Indians of North America -- education”. For example, look at:

• A Companion to American Indian History /edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury.
  E77 .C74 2004
• To Live on this Earth :American Indian Education / Estelle Fuchs and Robert J. Havighurst ; introduction by Margaret Connell Szasz.
  E97 .F95 1983
• Tending the Wild:  Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources / M. Kat Anderson.  [Electronic book ; click title to view]

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, political science, religion, and more.
• ERIC:  The primary index for education-related resources.
• America:  History and Life:  North American history
• Sociological Abstracts: Literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
• Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities and religious studies topics.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• Center for World Indigenous Studies
  Images and content about the world’s peoples
• Voice of the Shuttle
  Links for minority studies
• Indigenous Environmental Network
  Environmentalism from the indigenous point of view
• National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
  Issues, policies, and current events as defined by NCAI, the largest organization of Native people in the United States
• Native American Studies Research Guide
  A useful guide prepared by Bonnie Turner at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library.
• American Indian /Alaska Native Education:  An Overview
  An NAU professor’s summary of the issues involved in the Western-style education of students from native cultures.  Also see his related article about these issues.