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Selected Reference Books on the 1st Floor and in the Curriculum Materials Center (CMC)
General
Encyclopedia Britannica Good for general information on your tribe.
Location: REF. AE5 .E363 1998 (1st floor)
Native American
Peoples of the World: North Americans. 1st edition. Contains information on the culture, geographical setting, and historical background of 37 North American peoples. Includes a chapter on the Navajo. Location: CURRIC REF 970 M 913p (2nd floor)
From Abenaki to Zuni: A Dictionary of Native American Tribes
. In-depth surveys of more than sixty Native American tribes, including the houses they built, foods they ate, clothing, modes of travel, and other information, complemented by more than 250 detailed drawings. Location: CURRIC REF 973 W861f (2nd Floor)Chronology of American Indian History: The Trail of the Wind. Liz Sonneborn.
Entries are arranged chronologically within 10 chapters beginning with "Before 1492: Emergence" and ending with "1980 to the Present: Into the Future." Most entries are less than two paragraphs in length.
Location: REF E 77 .S72 2001 (1st Floor)Handbook of North American Indians. Location: REF E 76.2 H36 (1st Floor)
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Location: REF E 98 .W8 B38 2001 (1st Floor)
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes.
Guide to more than 150 North American Indian nations. Organized alphabetically by tribe or group, the book summarizes the historical record--such as locations, migrations, contacts with non-Indians, wars--and includes present-day tribal status. New Location: CURRIC REF 970.004 W164eGale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Location: REF E 77 .G15 1998 (1st Floor)
At Concordia:
Endangered Peoples of North America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive
Location: Concordia REFERENCE E98.E85 E53 2002
A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe.
Location: Concordia REFERENCE PM 853 M53 1995
Selected Books in the Stacks (These are just a few examples!)
979.1 M314n (2nd Floor)The Navajo. Patricia Cronin Marcello. CURRIC.
The Navajo Nation. Peter Iverson. E 99 .N3 I9. (3rd Floor)
The Native Americans, Navajos. Richard Erdoes. CURRIC 960 .E 66 n (2nd Floor)
The Ojibwa. Helen Hornbeck Tanner. CURRIC 970 .004 T166o (2nd Floor)
The Ojibwas: People of the northern forests. Eileen Lucas. CURRIC N73 L933 O (2nd floor)
Red Lake Nation: Portraits of Ojibway Life. Charles Brill. OVERSIZE E 99 .C5 B77 1992 (2nd floor)
Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories. E 99 .C6 L535 2001 (3rd Floor)
Ojibwe People Speak Out! (Textbook). CURRIC TEXT 305.13 M63O39 (2nd floor)
Selected Internet Resources
The
Coeur d' Alene Tribe Explore the Navajo Nation web site (more tourist-oriented)http://www.americanwest.com/pages/navajo2.htm
Dine (Navajo) Literature
http://www.indians.org/welker/navajo.htm
Navajo Times (online newspaper of the Navajo people)
http://www.thenavajotimes.com/
NativeTech: Ojibwe Links
http://www.nativetech.org/shinob/
Ojibwe Indians
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/ojibwe.html
Ojibwe History
http://www.tolatsga.org/ojib.html
Minnesota Ojibwe
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/mnojibhist.html
Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary
[Have you seen the movie Windtalkers?]
graphic from The Navajo Times
goodmanb@mnstate.edu,Updated 9/5/02
dewald@mnstate.edu, Updated 06/28/05
