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COMPOSITION I Native American Resources Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library [email protected]

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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]

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Native American Nations Our Own Names & Locations

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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

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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)

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Hmmmm……

• Oklahoma State Question 75• Do we rename our State?

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Oklahoma Literature?

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Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma

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Momaday

• How do you see Oklahoma?

• How do you see the cultures around you?

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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

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“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)

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Native American Times

The Native American Times is a national newspaper which provides American Indian coverage, based in Oklahoma.

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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

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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)

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E-Books: Ebrary/eBooks

• 24/7• Full Text Searching*• Highlight Markup• Note Taking• Changeable Font Size• Online Bookshelf

• Search Native American

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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)

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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

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Questions?

• Contact me:

• Frederic Murray• 774-7113• [email protected]

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Thanks!