HST 201 Rethinking Indian Encounter with Europeans Spring 2012 Michael Unsworth History Librarian

WHY YOU ARE HERE Your Hypothesis & Bibliogrpahy And Research Paper = 80%

OUTLINE Finding a Captivity Narrative Project (Active Learning Time!) Researching Native American Peoples o Handbook of the North American Indians o Online Reference Tools o Locating Bibliographies o Locating Primary Sources o Other Indexes Questions

FINDING CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES ONLINE

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

IT’S ACTIVE LEARNING TIME!

FIND CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES Group 1: Seminoles Group 2: Apaches Group 3: Comanches Group 4: Delawares 1.Can be online or print 2.Find as many as possible 3.How many different tools did your group use?

Researching Native American Peoples

FINDING ARTICLES

Handbook of North American Indians Washington D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, “…a 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology, intended to serve as a standard reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Each volume contains heavily illustrated chapters by the main authorities on each topic and concludes with an extensive bibliography and index.”

CONTENTS

Bibliography

INDEX

END

“But Indians have been cursed above all other people in history. Indians have anthropologists.” SOURCE: Vine Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins : ; an Indian manifesto ([New York] Avon [1970]), p. 78

Citation Styles: Humanities Footnotes or Endnotes Text: “… and cursed him royally 1.” Notes: 1 John Coffey, Extreme Toxicity (East Lansing: MSU Press, 1976), 3; Celeste Pilkingon, “Nothing Accomplished,” Continuity Review 23 (Mar. 1983):

Citation Styles: Social Science Bibliography Text: “… and cursed him royally.” (Coffey, 1976:3 & Pilkingon, 1983) Bibliography: Coffey, John Totally Toxic. East Lansing: MSU Press. Pilkingon, Celeste “Nothing Accomplished,” Continuity Review 23:

RETRIEVING MATERIAL

MELCAT

14 Digit ID Number

MELCAT

U-borrow

ILLIAD

WORLDCAT

ILLIAD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FINDING BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

CONTENTS

NOTE ABOUT SOURCES

SELECTED WRITINGS

PRIMARY SOURCES: Definition “…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.” SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

CAUTION: MEMOIRS

SOURCES USED IN A WORK

sourcesmanuscripts archivesnotebooks, sketchbooks, etc. archival resourcespersonal narratives, American [Chinese, Finnish] correspondencepersonnel records diariesrecords and correspondence

FOREWORD PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 NOTES

Getting Articles From Other Libraries

QUESTIONS

What was/were the most valuable thing(s) you learned today?

What are you not quite clear about from today’s session; what is muddy in your head?

CONTENTS

INDEX

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