Native American Studies Library Resources  Tags: history  

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• Examples: Native American Religious Studies
  

Books on Native Americans are scattered throughout the Library, making shelf browsing somewhat difficult.

The following call numbers may be helpful, but resources are not held strictly inside them:

• 016.97000497 Bibliographies
• 299.7 Mythology and Religion
• 342.73 Legal Issues and Problems
• 497-498 Language
• 709.7 Art
• 810-811 Literature
• 970.00497 History and comprehensive works, throughout North America
• 973.00497-979.00497 History and comprehensive work, U.S. by region and state

A few of the new titles added to our library in the past couple months that may be of interest.

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Books pertaining to Native American studies are numerous, but located in several departmental libraries. Your first step should be to consult the Library Catalog. If you need help with this process, see the library catalog libguide. This page has a few hints and ways to use subject headings in your search as well.

Subject headings are terms or phrases used in the Library Catalog and most databases to identify and pull together under a common umbrella materials on a given topic, regardless of words in a title. The Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings (LCSH) are used to identify subjects for items in the UIUC Online Library Catalog. Print copies of the LC Subject Headings are available across from the Reference Desk in the Undergraduate Library.

The Undergraduate Library has a good introduction to using LC Subject Headings for your research. For a list of Library of Congress Subject Headings related to Native Americans, see American Indian Studies: A Bibliographic Guide, pages 127-142 (016.97000497 W585a, shelved in the Education Reference Collection).

Note: LCSH "uses the term 'Indians' for the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. More specifically, LCSH uses 'Indians of North America' for those peoples indigenous to the United States and/or Canada. Often, if an item is about one particular tribe, the item will have the tribe's name as its subject heading. 'Algonquian Indians,' 'Comanche Indians,' 'Dakota Indians,' 'Eskimos,' and 'Oglala Indians'--- all are a few examples of Library of Congress subject headings found by searching for a particular tribe." (Source: http://library.wvstateu.edu/printouts/hisnaweb.html)

Examples of LCSH:

American literature --Indian authors --Bio-bibliography.

Native American Studies.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America --Languages --Congresses.

Indians of North America Religion

To limit your search to a specific tribe, replace the phrase "Indians of North America" with the tribe or groups name, plus Indians. For example, Cherokee Indians Religion and Hopi Indians Religion are subject headings in the UIUC library catalog. Use this method under the Guided Search option, and select Words in Subject from the drop down menu.

General Native American Religion Sources

Allen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface. 1992.
Education: 970.00497 AL54S1992

Brown, Brian Edward. Religion, Law, and the Land: Native Americans and the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land. 1999.
Main Stacks: 346.730432 B812r

Carmody, Denis L. Native American Religion: An Introduction. 1993.
Undergrad: 299.79 C213N

Clements, William M., and Frances M. Malpezzi, comps. Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography. 1984
Main Stacks: Q. 016.398 C591N

Deloria, Vine Jr For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, edited and with an introduction by James Treat. 1999.
Education: 199.7 D384f

Deloria, Vine Jr God is Red. 1973
Undergrad, Stacks: 291.211 D38G

Erdoes Richard, Alfonso Ortiz, eds. American Indian Myths and Legends. 1984.
Undergrad: 389.208997 AM35

Gill, Sam Native American Religions: An Introduction. 1982
Education, Undergrad: 299.78 G41N

Gill, Sam D., Irene F. Sullivan, eds. Dictionary of Native American Mythology. 1992.
Main Reference, Undergrad Reference, Uni High Reference, Education Reference [all non-circulating]: 299.703 G41D

Hultkrantz, Ake The Religions of The American Indians. 1979.
Stacks, Undergrad 299.7 H87A:E

Irwin, Lee, ed. Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader. 2000.
Education, Undergrad: 299.7 N2133

Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley, George E. Tinker A Native American Theology. 2001.
Main Stacks: 230.08997 K541n

Of Local Interest

Marriott, Alice L. Plains Indian Mythology. 1975.
Undergrad: 299.7 M34PL

Spiritual Practices of Specific Peoples

Holler, Clyde. Black Elk's religion: the sun dance and Lakota Catholicism. 1995.
Education : 299.785 H722B

Loftin, John Religion and Hopi Life in the 20th Century. 1991.
Education, Undergrad: 299.784 L827R

Mooney, James The Ghost Dance Religion 1965.
Education, Undergrad: 299.7 M77G1965

White, Phillip M (comp.). The Native American Sun Dance religion and ceremony: an annotated bibliography. 1998.
Education 016.2997 W585n