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IROQUOIS OR HAUDENOSAUNEE STUDIES
[Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora]
Colgate Univ. Library Research Guide

Locating books through the online catalog

There are two ways to execute a subject search in Colgate's Library's catalog (Mondo). The subject key word search can be the best place to begin your quest for books in Case Library. For a more specific type of subject searching use the Library of Congress terms listed below with an exact subject headings search.  Hot Tip: If you find a great book on your subject, check the bibliography for other books to read.

 

Library of Congress subject headings

Indians of North America -- New York (State)
Indians of North America -- Ontario
New York (State) -- Antiquities.
Iroquoian Indians --

Iroquois Indians --
Cayuga Indians --
Mohawk Indians --
Onondaga Indians --
Oneida Indians --
Seneca Indians --
Tuscarora Indians --
Six Nations
Indians of North America -- [issue]     for example
      Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- New York (State)
      Indians of North America - Treaties"
      Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789
Iroquois masks
Missions --New York (State)
Iroquois art

 

NAST Journals & newspapers available in the Colgate Libraries

including: Akwesasne Notes v 1- 1969; Oneida : the Oneida Indian Nation News = Onyota Aka v1, no 1- Jan 28, 1998- ; and the Oneida Indian Nation [newsletter] April 1993 -Dec. 1997

Locating articles in journals and newspapers

Consult the databases listed below to identify journal articles and other materials on your topic. Be aware that spelling may differ from one index to another. For example works on the Navajo may be indexed as "Navaho", "Navajo" or both ways. Searching on the keyword 'Dine' may also yield some articles on this people. Hot tip: Consult Word Dance (Case Ref. E76.2 .W36 1994) to find out the variant names and spellings for each nation. 

To identify which journals Colgate owns, check the hyperlink above or search the title of the journal in the library's catalog.

Bibliography of Native North Americans  (Silverplatter interface)

This database contains citations from the cumulative eight volume set of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations to books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US Government documents.

 

America History & Life (electronic coverage from 1964-   /ABC Clio interface)

The essential index to American history journals.

 

Academic Search Premier

This database provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications with more than 100 titles going back as far as 1975. It includes 3,100 full text peer-reviewed journals and abstracts and indexing for 7,876 journals.

 

Periodical Contents Index

Coverage extends from the 18th century to 1990 for over 1,265 periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (electronic coverage from 1951- /SilverPlatter)

Subject coverage: economics, political science, social and cultural anthropology, sociology. Another good cross disciplinary database with deep coverage. Decent coverage of anthropology.

 

Anthropological Literature

Subject coverage: Anthropological Literature is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly.  Covers articles published from the 19th century to the present.

 

Ethnic News Watch (Coverage varies with each title with some back to 1980)

This database provides the full text of articles in newspapers published by various ethnic presses in the United States. It currently includes more than 28 newspapers from the Native North American press with over 10,000 articles. Good for understanding current issues.

 

Syracuse Online (Online: Indexing and full text from 1998) 

Part of Global Newsbank, this database is good for locating recent materials on the Iroquois. For the most recent (this week's) coverage see the print edition located in the newspaper carrel at Case Library. The Oneida : the Oneida Indian Nation news is also located in the newspaper carrel.

EHRAF Collection of Ethnography

Iroquois (Eastern North America) Outline of World Culture number (OWC) is: nm09

Check the Library website for other subject specific indexes including various indexes and abstracts in Sociology and Anthropology.

Locating background material in the Reference collection

Overview:

*Atlas of the North American Indian. Case Ref E77 .W24 2000
*Word Dance : the language of Native American culture. Case Ref. E76.2 .W36 1994
*Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast. Case Ref E78 E2 B72 2001
*Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Case Ref. E77 .G15 1998 vol. 1-4
Encyclopedia of Native Am. Economic History. Case Ref E98 .E2 E52 1999.
*Handbook of North American Indians.  vol. 15 Northeast Case Ref E76.2 .H36 1984-
*Native North American Almanac. 2nd edition. Case Ref E75 .N38 2001
Native time : a historical time line of Native America. Case Ref. E98.C55 F73 1995.
Encyclopedia of Native American Religions. Case Ref E98 .R3 H73 2000
Dictionary of Native American Mythology. Case Ref E98 .R3 G46 1992
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Case Ref. E184 .A1 G14 2000.
Notable native Americans  Case Ref  E89 .N67 1995
Native American Women: a biographical dictionary. 2nd edition. Case Ref E98 W8 B38 2001

Contemporary:

*Native America Today : a guide to community, politics.. Case Ref E98 .T77 P75 1999
*Native American Issues: a reference handbook. Case Ref. E98.T77 T56 1996
*Native America in the 20th Century: an encyclopedia. Case Ref E76.2 .N36 1994
Statistical record of Native North Americans. CASE Ref. E98.P76 S73 1993

Historical References

Atlas of Ancient America. Case Ref E61 .C66 1986.
*American Indian History. Case Ref E77 .A496 2003 volumes 1 & 2

American eras. Early American civilizations & exploration to 1600. Case Ref E58 .A527 1998
*American Indian & the United States: a documentary history. Case Ref E93 .W27
Ancient Americas : a brief history and guide to research.  Case Ref  E65 .P7413 1997
Ancient Americans : a reference guide to the art, culture, and history of pre-Columbian North & South America. Case Ref E59 .P42 S3613 2001
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia. Case Ref  E77.9 .A72 1998
Bibliographical guide to the history of Indian-white relations in the United States. Case Ref E93 .P78
Indian-white relations in the United States : a bibliography of works published 1975-1980. Case Ref E93 P781  
Indians of North and South America : a bibliography based on the collection at the Willard E. Yager            Library-Museum, Hartwick.  Published in 1977. Supplemented in 1988 & 1997. Case Ref E58 W82
Encyclopedia of prehistory. Vol. 6 North America. Case Ref GN710 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Case Ref E45 .E53 1993.
Colonial Wars of North America, 1512-1763. Case Ref E46.5 .C65 1996
Encyclopedia of the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Case Ref E169.1 E626 2000
American Indian Wars 1492-1890. Case Ref E81 .K44 1997
Native American political systems & the evolution of democracy : an annotated bibl. Case Ref  E99.I7 J65 1996 also supplementary bibliography Case Ref E99 I7 J64 1999.

Specific to the Iroquois

Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy). Case Ref  E99.I7 E53 2000
Bibliography of the Iroquoian literature : partially annotated Case Ref  E99.I69 W44 1969
Seneca and Tuscarora Indians : an annotated bibliography Case Ref E99.S3 H33 1994

FINDING PRIMARY RESOURCES

Conduct a search of the online catalog using any of the subject headings listed in the first section and then limit your search results to year of publication before 1960 (or whatever date you fancy). Also check under headings such as "New York (State) --Census" or [church] -missions. If you find a good secondary book on your subject always check the sources listed in the bibliography.

 

Iroquois Indians [microform] : a documentary history of the diplomacy of the Six Nations and their League. Case Micro E99.I7 I73 1984 Reels 1-50.  See also Guide.

 

The Jesuit relations and allied documents; travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New, with Engli France, 1610- 1791; the original French, Latin, and Italian texts with translations and notes. Cleveland, Burrows Bros. Co., 1896-1901. Case Special Collect 971 J49 vols. 1-73. 

U.S. Serial Set Index 1789-1969. Case Indexes Z1223 .Z9 C65

This is an index to older Congressional reports and documents and a good source of primary information. Documents in the Serial set are located in Case storage and can only be accessed through Special Collections. These documents cannot be photocopied and so require extra time commitment and planning. 

Guide to American Indian documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899 : a project of the Institute for the Development. Case Ref E93 J622 1977

Annual report of the Education Department / University of the State of New York, State Dept. of Education. Albany, N.Y. : The University, 1905- . Case Main 379.747 N422

There is a great wealth of information here if you check in the index of all 103 volumes under "Indian education"

 

Survey of conditions of the Indians in the United States [microform]. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian affairs, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, second session [78th Congress, first session] pursuant to S. Res.79, a resolution directing the Committee on Indian affairs of the United States to make a general survey of the condition of the Indians of the United States. Case Micro E93 .U4773 1929a Reels 1-9 . See also Guide.

Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for the year..1870-1904 part 2.
Case Main E93 .U71

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior
Case Document I 20.1:921-926.   [1921-1926]

Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs [microform] : central classified files, 1907-1939
Case Micro E93 .R43 1995 Series B reels 1-25.  See also Guide.

 

Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology). Special Collections 572.97 Sm6

 

List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology : with index to authors and titles.
Washington : Government Printing Office, 1894-1914. 
Special Collections 572.97 Sm6 v. 24, 31, 36, 49,

Early encounters in North America  : peoples, cultures, and the environment
Colgate Network E77 .E37

This full text database has been compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies, including: °A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924 by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins; °Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn; °The French image of America: a chronological and subject bibliography of French books printed before 1816 relating to the British North American colonies and the United States by Durand Echeverria and Everett C. Wilkie; °The Plains and the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1800-1865 by Jr. Wagner & Camp; °Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850 by Robert Rogers Hubach;.°Early Canadiana Online, a full-text online collection that contains documents about Canada’s history from the first European contact to the nineteenth century; and °Bibliography of Native North Americans, Human Relations Area Files, 1976. When complete it will include more than 1,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform

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Emily Hutton, Head of Collection Dev
Native American Studies Liaison
updated September 6th, 2002

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