UW-Eau Claire People Pages
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(1) When searching the UWEC Catalog or MadCat (UW Madison Catalog) keep the Library of Congress Subject Headings for American Indians in mind:
(2) Don't forget to search for history journal articles in America: History & Life. Depending on your topic, you might also find articles in the anthropology literature helpful. If so, search in JSTOR Anthropology as well.
Particularly good journals in the field of American Indian Studies are: American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and Journal of American Indian Education.
(3) For contemporary topics, search in Ethnic Newswatch, a full text database of magazines and newspapers of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
American Memory: Includes digital collections in all formats -- photographs, moving pictures, audio files, electronic books. Collections are organized by topic, but you may search across collections. Many materials are pre-1923.
Repositories of Primary Sources: A geographically organized list of links to archives and special collections around the world. Search in the states where the people of the tribe you are researching reside. Who knows what kinds of interesting things you'll find out there!
Art, Artifacts, and Portraits
Artstor: Search all collections for "Navajo," "Hopi," or the names of other tribes of interest to conduct a thorough search for paintings, portraits, photographs,and images of material culture from North American museums. Most images are pre-1923.
Contemporary Native American Art
Art Full Text (Wilson): Search on the subject heading "Art, Native American" and tribe name to identify articles with images, on recent exhibitions, or covering Native American art and artists.
Biographical Directory of Native American Painters: Ref N6536 .L47 1995
Native American Indian Artist Directory Ref E98.A7 P27 1998
Consult these works to identify specific Native American artists; search for images of their works on Google.
Photographs & Maps
Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Search: The Northern Arizona University Archives Web site offers many contemporary (1950-1990s) photographs of Southwest Indians.
Heritage West: Browse this portion of the Colorado Digitization Project by category. The Native American category contains images and other archival materials dealing with many Southwestern American Indian groups. You may also search by tribe or by topic.
Online Archive of California Image Database: Search by peoples or by topic.
Center for Southwest Research Digital Collections: Again, search for images by peoples or by topic.
Miscellaneous Images
Google Image Search: Search to catch images posted on Web sites. Be aware that you are searching the text tags that Web page creators assign to images, and that image searches often miss content in image databases.
Native Networks: Although there are no films accessible directly on this site, it is an excellent resource for identifying indigenous film makers and their work. Includes a list of film titles by tribe.
Internet Archives Movie Archives: Contains thousands of downloadable movies in the public domain. Many are short films produced by educational institutions, corporations or government agencies. Content is highly variable, so be careful!
AIROS Native Radio Network: Internet broadcasting and podcasts of contemporary and traditional Native American music.
Search other UWEC and UW System Libraries for American Indian music on compact disc. You may limit your search to musical recordings before entering tribal names as keywords.
Early Encounters in North America: A full text database of diaries, correspondence, and other writings describing interactions between native peoples and Europeans from 1601 through the early 20th century.
Colorado Plateau Digital Archives Search: Over 70 recordings from oral history projects involving the Navajo, the Apache, and the Hopi. Many of these interviews deal with Indian education in the Southwestern United States.
Doris Duke Collection: Transcripts from an extensive oral history project in Oklahoma from 1967-1972. Although there is little in the collection on the Navajo, Pueblo, or Hopi, there are several interviews pertaining to Apache peoples.
National Museum of the American Indian Audio Programs: Eight downloadable radio programs on various topics.
American Women's Diaries: Western Women: A microfilm collection containing diaries of pioneer women and interviews with Native American women. The Guide to American Women's Diaries Segment III: Western Women may be found in the Reference Collection: HQ1438. W45A52 Guide 1997.
Published transcripts of oral histories are sometimes compiled into books. Search other UWEC and UW System Libraries by keyword using the tribal name and "interviews."
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Contact Colleen McFarland by email, by phone (715) 836-3873, or just drop by the archives (McIntyre Library 5022).
