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Many nations : a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska Native Peoples of the United States

Title: Many nations : a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska Native Peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office.
Author: Library of Congress.
Publication: Washington : Library of Congress, 1996.

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Description

xx, 334 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 26 cm.

Series Statement

Library of Congress resource guide

Uniform Title

Library of Congress resource guide

Subject

Genre/Form

Government publications – United States.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / James H. Billington -- Preface / Patrick Frazier -- General collections -- Gateways -- Pre-contact North American Indian life -- Fur trade -- European Colonial administration of Indian relations -- Special collections -- Early contact: discoverers and explorers -- Early Spanish contact -- French and English contact with East and South coasts of North America -- Spanish penetration of the Southwest -- French contacts in the Upper Midwest -- Contacts on the Northwest coast and California -- Captivity narratives -- Government documents: Franklin treaties -- Bible collection -- Indian portfolios: print and photographs -- Nineteenth-century exploration and travel in the American West: documentary, popular, and fictional accounts -- Twentieth-century decorative arts -- Manuscript division -- Gateways -- Early contacts with Europeans -- Missions and missionaries -- Evolution of Federal Indian policy and the Bureau of Indian Affairs -- The Law library of Congress -- Gateways -- Congress and Indian policy -- Warfare -- Indian languages and tribal names -- American Indian treaties -- Tribal and urban Indian governance today -- Prints and photographs division -- Indian delegations and government relations -- Federal government surveys and other expeditions -- Indian wars and confrontations -- The Frontier, villages, and reservation life -- Education -- Expositions, World's fairs, and Wild West shows -- Pictorial photographs -- Allegories, satires, stereotypes, and polemical representations.
Geography and map division -- Gateways -- Modern Indian activism and self-determination -- Reservations, agents, and allotments -- Non-Indian images of North American Indians -- Motion picture, broadcasting and recorded sound division -- Gateways -- Indian removal across the country -- American Indian land and other claims -- Pre-contact Indian economies and technology -- Indian policy reform ("the Indian new deal"); and the Termination Era -- Indian art, craft, and design today -- Music division and recorded sound reference centeer of motion picture, broadcasting and recorded sound division -- Frances Densmore collection -- Natalie Curtis Burlin collection -- American folklife center -- Collections from the American Philosophical Society library -- The Laura Bolton collections -- Collections from the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) -- Indians for Indians hour collections -- Collections from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University -- The Willard Rhodes collections -- The Helen Heffron Roberts collections -- Collections from the Mary C. Wheelwright Museum -- Zuni storytelling collection -- Gateways -- Songs and dances -- Traditional Indian spirituality.

ISBN

0844409049
9780844409047

LCCN

96042503

OCLC

ocm35360831
35360831
SCSB-761064

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library