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Native American Studies

Key Resources for Secondary Research

America: History and Life
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

Anthropology Plus
Early 19th century-present; as a compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institutes 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.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
1970-present; information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. 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.

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from periodicals, books, essay collections, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
NOTE: The link here is preset to a genre search for "Native American Writers." Search within this group for thematic or critical terms.

JSTOR
Use the "Advanced Search" and select the "American Indian" set of journals to search within these journal titles: American Indian Law Review, American Indian Quarterly, International Journal of American Linguistics, Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Wicazo Sa Review.

Native American/ Indigenous Press

Ethnic NewsWatch/Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, BiPOC and Native press beginning in 1960.

Mac Users: To open PDFs, note special on-screen instructions to “open with your PDF reader.” For historical content, date filter for years "1959-1989".

Chronicling America: Newspapers of Indigenous Peoples of North America
Searchable digitized copy of newspapers produced by native peoples of North America between 1829 and 1921 (13 titles currently available). Part of the Chronicling America newspaper project at the Library of Congress.

American Indian Newspapers
Indigenous print journalism from the U.S. and Canada. Includes 45 unique titles dating from 1828-2016.

Magazines and Newspapers

Journals

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

To search for articles within a particular journal, first go to the Journals Tab in the center of the Vassar Library Website, then search for the journal title. The catalogue entry tells you what online and/or print access is available, and you can use the links to get to full text searches, if available.

Some examples of journals that focus on Native American Studies are: