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American Indian Studies 101: Getting Started

 
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Reference Resources


Biographical Sources

Subject words: indians biography or indian biography

A to Z of Native American Women. Liz Sonneborn. New York : Facts on File, c1998.
Location: REFRM E98.W8 S65 1998
Encyclopedia of Native Amerian Biography : six hundred life stories of important people from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller. Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde, Jr. New York : H. Holt, c1997.
Location: REFRM E89 .J69 1997
Shapers of the great debate on Native Americans--land, spirit, and power : a biographical dictionary. Bruce E. Johansen. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
Location: REFRM E98.L3 J65 2000

Encyclopedias

Subject words: indians encyclopedias or indian encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of North American Indians / Frederick E. Hoxie, editor. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1996-
Location: REFRM E76.2 .E53 1996; Also available through EbscoBooks
The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes / edited by Sharon Malinowski ... [et al.]. Detroit : Gale, c1998
Location REFRM E77 .G15 1998 v.1-4
Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Washington : Smithsonian Institution : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978-
Location: 2nd Floor and REFRM E77 .H25

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