LibGuides: Native American and Indigenous Studies: STARTING YOUR RESEARCH

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Subjects:Africana Studies, American Studies, Arts, History, Humanities, Judaic Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Society, Special Collections

Introduction

The Brown University Library has in its holdings a wealth of material for research on Indigenous peoples in North America and around the globe. Uncovering this material can be something of a challenge. Some formats (books, databases) are more readily discovered and user-friendly than others (microform).

See, also, Anthropology

Finding and Using Images

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Key Bibliographies for Secondary Research

America: History and Life
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1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)
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1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.
Anthropology Plus
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Early 19th century-present; as a compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database, Anthropology Plus is a comprehensive index covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. This database provides extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries.

Catalogs

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS A to Z (John Hay Library)
Capsule descriptions of many of the more than 300 unique collections of rare books, archival materials and manuscript collections that form Special Collections, housed in the John Hay Library

Josiah
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Current; Brown University's online library catalog, provides access to information about books, periodicals, and other materials owned by the Brown libraries.
WorldCat
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Books, journals, sound recordings, videos and manuscripts collected and catalogued by your library and libraries around the world. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.

Maps at Brown

Map Room (Sciences Library, 8th Floor)
Primarily post WWII and USGS maps
Maps at the John Carter Brown Library
Maps of the Americas through 1825
Hay Maps (John Hay Library)
An unusual compilation of more than a thousand diverse and interesting maps representing a wide variety of periods, topics and world geography. Do a "word" search of JOSIAH for "hay maps" to pull up a browsable list of titles; add the name of a country or region to focus your search on a particular geographical area. Some maps have been scanned and may be viewed in the Brown Digital Repository

Digital Maps

Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
Digital version of Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This online edition reproduces all of the atlas’s nearly 700 maps. Many of the maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data—remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century. A project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond

Biographical Information

American National Biography Online
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The American National Biography offers portraits of more than 18,700 men and women from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than 60 years.