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COMPOSITION I Native American Resources
Frederic Murray Assistant ProfessorMLIS, University of British ColumbiaBA, Political Science, University of Iowa
Instructional Services LibrarianAl Harris Library [email protected]
Native American Nations Our Own Names & Locations
Tribal Nations Map
Oklahoma
• 39 Tribes• More languages spoken in
Oklahoma than Western Europe
• Oklahoma State Question 75: 2010 – English: Official Language of
Oklahoma – Author: Representative Randy Terrill
Oklahoma: Choctaw• Reverend Isaac McCoy
(1830’s)– Indian Territory– Aboriginia
• Reverend Allen Wright (1866)– okla means "people”– homma or humma means "red“– Oklahoma Territory (1890)
Oklahoma Literature?
Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma
Momaday
• How do you see Oklahoma?
• How do you see the cultures around you?
American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
American Indian Cultural Center and Museum
• $150 million center will be a world-class facility
• Based on Smithsonian standards• Attract visitors from throughout
the world
• Projected Opening in 2017
“This will be one of the most significant cultural institutions to open in the next decade.”
-Kevin Gover, Pawnee (Director, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
Native American Times
The Native American Times is a national newspaper which provides American Indian coverage, based in Oklahoma.
Google News
• Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to search commands.
• Search: Native American
Traditional Library Resources
• Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes– 970.1 W146e 1999 (Reference 1st Floor)
• Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today– 305.896 E56 (Reference 1st Floor)
• Native peoples A to Z– 970.103 N278 (Reference 1st Floor)
Traditional Library Resources• America: History and Life with Full
Text
• North American Indian Thought and Culture
• JSTOR Journal Archive
E-Books: Ebrary/eBooks
• 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Online Bookshelf
• Search Native American
Class Exercise
• Select an Oklahoma Tribe – Use links from American Indian Cultural
Center and Museum– Locate Tribal Office Address (Record)– Locate current Tribal Chairman (Record)
• Visit Native American Times website– Locate a News story on your selected
Tribe (Record Title of News Story)
Class Exercise
• Use Ebrary to locate a book about the Tribe you selected ( Record Title)
• Use one of the three encyclopedias to locate an entry about the Tribe you selected. Record which encyclopedia used and one fact about the Tribe
Thanks!