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Landscape Architecture 363:
American Indians, Planners, and Public Policy

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Champagne, Duane, ed. The Native North American Almanac: Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.
(Olin Ref E 76 .2 N28 1994; also Mann)

In 17 chapters written by various scholars of Native American studies, the Almanac covers the range of Native American history and culture in the United States and Canada. It provides a chronology, demographic and distribution descriptions and histories, and discussions of religion, the arts, history, economy and law. The final chapter is comprised of biographical essays on significant historical and present-day Native North Americans.

Handbook of North American Indians. Gen. Ed. William C. Strutevant. 20 vols. (in progress) Washington: Smithsonian, 1978- .
(Uris Ref E 77 H23+; also Olin)

Planned as a 20-volume encyclopedic study of the prehistory, history and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America, this new handbook is an on-going project of the Smithsonian Institution. At present only Volume 5 (Arctic), Volume 6 (Subarctic), Volume 8 (California), Volumes 9 and 10 (The Southwest), Volume 11 (The Great Basin), and Volume 15 (The Northeast) are complete and in print. A wonderful reference tool, its information is scholarly, but clearly written, bibliographies are extensive, and there are numerous photographs, charts, maps, and tables.

Moquin, Wayne, comp. Great Documents in American Indian History. New York: Praeger, 1973.
(Uris Ref E 77.2 M82)

Speeches, testimony given before various government agencies, stories and legends, letters, treaties and constitutions comprise the body of this volume. There are, in addition, some photographs, a short bibliography, a glossary of tribes (very incomplete) and an index of proper names. Although the volume does cover many useful documents it is disappointingly short on some of the most important so that it is essential to consult additional sources for the full picture of American Indian documentation.

Native Americans Information Directory. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1993- .
(Olin E77 N275+; also Mann)

Provides directory information for a wide variety of organizations, agencies, institutions, programs, publications, services, and other resources concerned with native peoples of the United States and Canada. It is divided into five sections: 1) American Indians, 2) Alaska Natives, 3) Aboriginal Canadians, 4) Native Hawaiians, and 5) General Resources.

Prucha, Francis Paul. Atlas of American Indian Affairs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1990.
(Olin Ref E77 P97)

An atlas depicting the relationships of Native peoples with the U.S. government. Sections of maps include culture and tribal areas, U.S. Census enumeration of American Indians, Indian Land Cessions, Indian Reservations, the Army and the Indian Frontier, and others.

Prucha, Francis Paul. A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1977, plus suppl. 1982.
(Olin Ref Z 1209 .2 U5 P97)

This major bibliography is designed to provide access to articles and books which deal with the relationships between American Indians, and American non-Indians, including the U.S. government. Arrangement is in chapters, and then by further subdivision (e.g. Revolutionary War, Teacher Training), and finally alphabetically by author within the subdivision. A name and subject index at the end of each volume is a further aid to access. Uris has the supplement only.

Reddy, Marlita A., ed. Statistical Record of Native North Americans. Detroit: Gale, 1993.
(Olin Ref E90 P76 S73x 1993; also Mann)

A compilation of statistical data on the indigenous population of North America (Introduction). It includes statistical data on Native North Americans compared with other ethnic groups, as well as data comparing native tribes with one another. Data on history, demographics, the family, education, health and health care, social and economic conditions, and other topics are included.

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Bibliography of Native North Americans on Disc. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1992- .
(Olin Ref Disk Z5114 B58)

One of the most extensive bibliographies on Native Americans, with an easy, powerful search interface. Use keywords to locate relevant articles, then try using the database's own subject descriptors. For example: search on the keyword "storytelling" (about 20 citations). Examining the results shows that the database uses "verbal-arts" as the subject descriptor. Searching that descriptor results in 2,000 citations.

Ethnic NewsWatch. Stamford: Softline Information, 1992- . Monthly.
(CD-ROM at Uris Ref)

This is a multi-cultural database containing the full-text of articles, columns, and editorials from 125 ethnic and minority American newspapers and news magazines. It includes African-American, Arab-American, Asian-American, Eastern European, European, Hispanic/Chicano/Latino, Jewish, and Native American publications. Spanish-language newspapers are in Spanish; the database is searchable in English and Spanish. Local, national, and international business, economic, political, and social issues are covered in addition to entertainment, fashion and music topics.

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