Indian Removal Act of 1830
Websites
- Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History
from the Library of Congress
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
American Indian Removal and the Trail to Wounded Knee by
Provides a detailed account of American Indian Removal policy and its culmination at the massacre at Wounded Knee, including its social and political legacy in modern America. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
Call Number: E98.R4 H55 2010
Other Legislation
Online from CCBC Libraries
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition by
Integrating American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, this encyclopedia includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native American Nations' legal and political systems such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, Pueblo, Mandan, Wyandot, Powhatan, Mikmaq, and Yakima. Although not an Indian law casebook, this work does contain outlines of many major Indian law cases, congressional acts, and treaties. It also contains profiles of individuals important to the evolution of Indian law. This work will be of interest to scholars in several fields, including law, Native American studies, American history, political science, anthropology, and sociology.
Websites
- 1953: Congress seeks to abolish tribes, relocate American Indians
From National Institutes of Health
Louis Owens
Online Book Preview
- I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
Preview from Google Books
Articles
- Louis Owens Obituary
from New York Times
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Websites
- Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans
from Smithsonian Magazine
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
Edward S. Curtis by
Edward S. Curtis: Visions of the First Americans is a tribute to the photographer, his work, but above all to the Native Americans he photographed. Chapters on many different Native American tribes make this collection unique. Edward Curtis's recognizable style, saturated with sepia, is immediately recognizable. He captures not only the striking faces of his subjects, but also a glimpse into the lifestyle of each Native American tribe he photographed. Women grind corn, and communities gather outside their traditional living areas. Atop horses, Native Americans ride on the prarie. Papooses are bundled in woven carrying packs, and men are dressed in full feathered regalia. These images paint a picture, known to us now only as a historical memory. Many tribes are featured in this volume, from the familiar Apache and Navaho to lesser-known tribes. This book will draw in readers who are interested in world cultures, along with photography buffs and historians. This hardcover volume is a wonderful addition to any library.
Call Number: E89 .C883 2010
Richard Throssel
Websites
- Richard Throssel (Cree) Imagesfrom the Library of Congress
- Richard Throssel papers
from American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Contains many photographs of Crow and Northern Cheyenne, from 1902-1933
Databases
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Articles on any subject. This is a good place to start.
- Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Articles and essays on literary criticism, and biographies of authors from many countries.
- U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Articles, essays, and primary sources on the history of the United States.
Native Americans in Western Literature
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
Cooper by
The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance of civilization that he inadvertently serves as advance scout, missionary, and critic. Leatherstocking first appears in The Pioneers (1823), as an aged hunter living on the fringe of settlement near Templeton (Cooperstown), New York, at the end of the eighteenth century. There he becomes caught in the struggles of party, family, and class to control the changing American land and to determine what sort of civilization will replace the rapidly vanishing wilderness. When Natty Bumppo started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset at the novel's close, one early reader said, "I longed to go with him." The Last of the Mohicans (1826) is a pure unabashed narrative of adventure. It looks back to the earlier time of the French and Indian Wars, when Natty and his two companions, Chingachgook and Uncas, survivors of a once-proud Indian nation, attempt a daring rescue and seek to forestall the plan of the French to unleash their Mingo allies on a wave of terror through the English settlements. The Prairie (1827) takes up Natty in his eighties, driven by the continuous march of civilization to his last refuge on the Great Plains across the Mississippi. On this vast and barren stage, the Sioux and Pawnee, the outlaw clan of Ishmael Bush, and members of the Lewis and Clark expedition enact a romantic drama of intrigue, pursuit, and biblical justice that reflects Cooper's historical dialectic of culture and nature, of the American nation and the American continent. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Call Number: PS1403 1985 v. 1 - 2
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems by Call Number: PS2267.A11 1989
Will Rogers
Websites
On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
Will Rogers' World by Call Number: PN6161 .R664425 1989
A Will Rogers Treasury by Call Number: PN6161.R66435 1982