Library Guides: Gender, Race, and Identity: Indigenous Studies

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Native Land Digital
Explore an interactive map of Indigenous territories around the world. Search for a location or browse by territory, language, or treaty.

JSTOR
Sponsored by: Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Core academic ebooks and journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.

Native American and Indigenous Studies
Presenting interdisciplinary scholarship in international Native American and Indigenous Studies. NAIS provides a forum to place different kinds of research, intellectual traditions, and knowledge practices in conversation.
American Indian Quarterly
An interdisciplinary journal of the anthropology, history, literatures, religions, and arts of Native Americans
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Includes book reviews, literature, and original scholarly papers on a wide range of issues in Native American studies, including the fields of history, anthropology, geography, sociology, political science, health, literature, law, education, and the arts.

American Indian Newspapers
North American Indigenous journalism spanning two centuries, featuring publications from a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee, and Navajo languages. From 1828 to 2016.

News from Native California
A magazine devoted to the vibrant cultures, arts, languages, histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s diverse Indian peoples.
Indian Country Today
Indian Country Today is the largest news site that covers tribes and Native people throughout the Americas, including American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Historic Native American Newspapers
Search historic Native American newspapers included in the Library of Congress' Chronicling America digitization project.

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
ISBN: 9781848139534
Publication Date: 2013
This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.'
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
ISBN: 9780807057834
Publication Date: 2015
A history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, revealing how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.