Collins Memorial Library: ENGL 362/431: Native American Literature: Articles

Featured Readings

The readings linked below, provided by Dr. MacBain, cover foundational concepts relevant to this course.

Marker, Michael. “CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Sacred Mountains and Ivory Towers: Indigenous Pedagogies of Place and Invasions from Modernity.” Counterpoints, vol. 379, 2011, pp. 197–211.
Potlatch As Pedagogy : Learning Through Ceremony, Portage & Main Press, 2018.

General Database Search Tips

Try these strategies to become a better, more efficient searcher -- and help you find books and articles that you can actually use:

Build your search vocabulary -- keep a running list of key words, phrases, concepts, synonyms, and any related terms or ideas that you find.
Use advanced search features -- narrow your search with "AND," expand your search with "OR," or search in specified fields (i.e., author, title, publication, abstract).
Use search limits -- control the types of results you get (academic journals? ebooks?) and how they are displayed (date? relevance?) so that you're only looking at results you can use.
Try multiple searches and evaluate -- try to figure out why you got the results you did, and adjust your search until you get closer to results you can use.
Use database descriptors -- once you find an article that looks good, see what descriptors or "subject headings" were assigned to it in the database. You can use these to search only for articles that have the same descriptors attached.

Recommended Subject Databases

These subject databases may be especially useful for your research projects for this class. Depending on your topic and your angle, you may wish to search additional subject databases.

Artstor on JSTOR
A digital library of images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images.
Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
Anthropology Plus
Covers scholarly work in the areas of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies.
Gender Studies Database
Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
Literature Criticism
Includes overviews by topic, author, and work, as well as excerpts from articles, books, and essays written by scholars.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
The key database for identifying scholarly books, essays, articles, and dissertations on modern literature in all languages. Also covers cultural studies, folklore, film studies, and linguistics.
Sociological Abstracts
Scholarly work written by and of interest to sociologists.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
From the Library of Congress a searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.