North American Indian Thought and Culture

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Overview

North American Indian Thought and Culture provides access to autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files that were previously unpublished. It includes fifty-four volumes from the 18th and 19th centuries with works by Cadwallader Colden, William Apes, Samuel G. Drake, and Benjamin Drake, as well as autobiographies by Black Hawk, Okah Tubbee, Kah-Ga-Gah-Bowh, and many others. Nations covered in depth, include the Eskimos and Inuit of the Arctic; the sub-Arctic Cree; the Pacific Coastal Salish; the Ojibwa, Cheyenne, and Sioux of the Plains; the Luiseno, Pomo, and Miwok of California; the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi of the Southwest; the Creek and Cherokee of the Southeast; the Peqout, Iroquois, and Seneca of the Northeast; the Metis and Nez Perce of the Great Plateau; and others.

Provider:

Alexander Street Press

Posted:

Aug 6, 2015 12:48pm

Updated:

Aug 24, 2016 10:08am

Source

CRL reviews are based on independent research. Information is researched by CRL staff and other specialists at CRL libraries. See CRL Review for additional source notes.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Arts and Humanities

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Bibliographical citations

Biographies

Books

Correspondence

Drawings

Photographs

Print journals

Sound recordings

Major Languages:

English

- Denotes data sourced directly from publisher

Content Details:


Topics covered
Geographic coverage	North America
Chronological coverage	17th to 21st centuries
Source format(s)	paper and audio (autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio)
Total titles	494
Total pages	100,000
Major language (s)	English
Digital collection launch date	2004
Completion date	Complete
Collection ongoing	N
Update frequency	Complete
Available supplements	N

Specifications

Metadata:


MARC records available	Y
Creator of MARC records	Alexander Street
Source for obtaining MARC records	http://alexanderstreet.com/north-american-indian-thought-and-culture-all...
Fee for MARC records	N
Subject authorities used	Controlled vocabularies for subjects are natural language, hierarchical terms (e.g., "Agriculture >> Crops >> Food crops" = three separate terms, with no subdivisions). Terms are intended to be used with post-coordinate searches (e.g., "Forest fires AND Insects”).
Name authorities used	Controlled vocabularies for names are based on AACR2 guidelines, with the addition of "flourish dates" when we could find no birth or death date for an individual ("Pacheco, Paulita, 1943-" or "Abbott, Edward, fl. 1763-1778").

Technical Platform:


Browser compatibility	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher; Firefox 3.0 or higher
Authentication options	IP, user name and password, proxy,or referrer URL
Archiving solution (master files)	We use a third-party solution (library can request archival copy should ASP cease ability to provide the data)
Archiving solution (derivative files)	same
Available in web discovery tools	Y
Open url target	N
Federated searching, z39.50	N
Local host option	Y
Usage stats based on Counter code	N

Interface Tools:


Full text displayed	Y
Page images	20,000 photographs
Color images	Y / Nearly 100% are B/W or original sepia color.
Search full text	Y
Advanced search	Y
Search within results	Y
Limit results by dates and/or document types	Y
Display highlighted search terms	Y
Display snippet (search term in context)	Y
Relevance sorting	Y
Save searches	N
Download PDF	N
Download HTML	N
Print page	Y
Print full document	N
Export citations	N
Annotation tools	N
Cross-product searching	N
ILL permitted	Y
Text/data mining permitted	Y
Restrictions on use	Per license terms (authorized users defined, not to be reproduced for commercial purposes, etc.)

Terms and Provider Details

Terms:


Subscription option	Y
Purchase option	Y
Multiple year payments option	Y
Maintenance fees	Y
Hosting charges	Y
Provider notes	n/a

Provider:

Alexander Street Press

Website:

http://alexanderstreet.com/

Main Address:

3212 Duke Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

United States

CRL Review

Collection Content:

North American Indian Thought and Culture consists of more than 100,000 pages, and provides access to:

Autobiographies
Biographies including Pocahontas, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Plenty Coups
More than 100 Indian publications, such as The Arrow, the Cherokee Phoenix, and the Chickasaw Intelligencer
2,000 oral histories
Personal writings
At least 20,000 photographs from the Bureau of India Affairs, Edward Curtis, among other "rare collections"
Drawings
Audio files that were previously unpublished

Included in this collection are rare books representing King Philip, Red Jacket, Sequoyah, Thayendanegea, Tomochichi, Standing Bear, Red Cloud, John Ross, and Geronimo. In addition, fifty-four volumes from 18th and 19th century works by Cadwallader Colden, William Apes, Samuel G. Drake, and Benjamin Drake, as well as autobiographies by Black Hawk, Okah Tubbee, Kah-Ga-Gah-Bowh, and many others.

Covered in this collection are nations throughout North America, including the Eskimos and Inuit of the Arctic; the sub-Arctic Cree; the Pacific Coastal Salish; the Ojibwa, Cheyenne, and Sioux of the Plains; the Luiseno, Pomo, and Miwok of California; the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi of the Southwest; the Creek and Cherokee of the Southeast; the Peqout, Iroquois, and Seneca of the Northeast; the Metis and Nez Perce of the Great Plateau; and others.

North American Indian Thought and Culture was previously known as North American Indian Biographical Database.

Delivery:

The interface includes Alexander Street Press' Conductor software, which enables "high functionality searching of texts, reference works, websites and other digital artifacts in the Humanities."

Terms:

North American Indian Thought and Culture is available on the Web, either through one-time purchase of perpetual rights or through annual subscription. A library that purchases perpetual rights will also receive an archival copy of the data. CRL is only providing an offer for the one-time purchase of perpetual rights.

Strengths and Weaknesses:

The strengths of this database is that it provides multiple search capabilities, from a quick search to advanced search of individuals, documents, works, and peoples. Each advanced search index provides extensive fields from which to search with from the title, race, occupation, year written, historical events discussed, work type, corporate author, publisher, editor or translator, and so forth.

In addition, a table of contents and guides are made available to help users navigate through the database. The guides provide a series of questions to give users ideas for how to search through the database.

Sources

Sources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment.

Additional Reviews in Other Sources:

This database is reviewed in Volume 46 no. 03 of Choice in November 2008.

Endnotes:

Most of the information found on this tab was taken from the vendor's description of the product.

CRL Offers & Status

Status	Current	Description
CRL Flagged	no	Potential interest to CRL community
Offer Pending	no	Currently a candidate for CRL offer
Active Offer	no	Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
Trial Access	no	Available for trial
Renewal Offer	no	Currently offered for renewal
Expired Offer	yes	Past offers
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration by CRL
Reviewed by CRL	yes	Evaluation available by CRL and community
Special Access	no	Member-only access available for a limited time

The complete offer and activity details for this resource are only available to CRL members.

Appendix

Bibliography of North American Indian Thought and Culture

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