Articles and Books - Native Americans 

Finding Articles

In the time it takes you to read one whole book, you could read many, many articles, thereby getting many, many viewpoints (and also impressing school teachers).  Ask your librarian to help you with these great databases:

American Indian History Online

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography Resource Center (Example: Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz) 

Discovering Collection  (Check out the pages on Native Americans and Native American Issues)

Gale eBooks - results on this page are from a subject search for Native Americans

 Click here to see the list of all library databases.

Reference Books

(a sampling) 

Ebooks and Audiobooks

•  The American Indian Rights Movement by Eric Braun (ebook always available)
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Laural Merlington (audiobook always available)

For In-Library Use

• American Indians and the Law, 2008
  
• Atlas of American Indian Affairs, 1990.
• Chronology of American Indian History: The Trail of the Wind, 2001.
• Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, 2007 
  
• Encyclopedia of New Jersey Indians: Tribes, Nations and People of the Woodlands Areas, 1998.
• Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements, 2008
  
• Indian Treaties in the United States: An Encyclopedia and Documents Collection, 2018.
• Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples, 2016 
• Native American Voices, 1997
  

Finding Books to Borrow

Some possible subject terms to search in the Library's catalog:

• American Indian Movement
• Indians of North America 
• Indians of North America--History 
• Indians of North America -- New Jersey (or another state) 
• Trail of Tears, 1838-1839
  
• The name of a tribe of interest to you, for example: Cherokee Indians, Delaware Indians (aka Lenape Indians), or Ojibwa Indians
  
• The name of the famous Native American of interest to you. For example, Winona Laduke, Russell Means, or Wilma Mankiller.
  

Browsing the Shelves 

The Dewey Decimal Classification System arranges nonfiction books by subject. Most of the nonfiction books about Native Americans are in the 970-971s, but some are also in the 973s, the 975s, and the 978-979s.

You can also find poetry and plays by Indigenous authors in the nonfiction section. American poetry can be found in 811 and American plays can be found in 812. To search for these, you might try the following subject searches:

• Indians of North America -- Drama
• Indians of North America -- Poetry
  

Here are some examples:

• American Gypsy: Six Native American Plays by Diane Glancy, of Cherokee heritage 
• An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, member of the Mvskoke Nation
• Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, edited by Duane Niatum, of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
• In Her I Am by Chrystos, of Menominee heritage
• Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays, edited by Hanay Geiogamah, of Kiowa and Delaware descent

• Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier, of Oglala Lakota heritage
  

If you are interested in fiction books by Native American authors, you will need to know the author's last name. Here are some suggested authors:

• Paula Gunn Allen, of Laguna Pueblo Indian heritage
  

• Janet Campbell Hale, of Coeur d'Alene, Cree, and Kootenay heritage

• Linda Hogan, of Chickasaw descent

• Stephen Graham Jones, of Blackfeet descent
  

• Winona Laduke, of the Ojibwe Nation
  

• Tommy Orange, of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations
• Leslie Marmon Silko, of the Laguna Pueblo Indian Nation
  

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