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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Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files that were previously unpublished.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.
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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- Audio files that were previously unpublished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.
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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."
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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.
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