HST 201 Rethinking Indian

Encounter with EuropeansSpring 2012

Michael Unsworth

History Librarian

unsworth@msu.edu

WHY YOU ARE HEREYour Hypothesis & Bibliogrpahy

And Research Paper = 80%

OUTLINE• Finding a Captivity Narrative• Project (Active Learning Time!)• Researching Native American Peoples

o Handbook of the North American Indians

o Online Reference Toolso Locating Bibliographieso Locating Primary Sourceso Other Indexes

• Questions

FINDING CAPTIVITYNARRATIVES ONLINE

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

IT’S ACTIVE LEARNING TIME!

FIND CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES

• Group 1: Seminoles

• Group 2:

Apaches• Group 3:

Comanches• Group 4:

Delawares

1. Can be online or print

2. Find as many as possible

3. How many different tools did your group use?

Researching Native American Peoples

FINDING ARTICLES

Handbook of North American Indians

Washington D.C. :

Smithsonian Institution,

1978-

“…a 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all

Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history,

prehistory, and human biology, intended to serve as a standard

reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Each volume contains heavily

illustrated chapters by the main authorities on each topic and concludes

with an extensive bibliography and index.”

CONTENTS

Bibliography

INDEX

END

“But Indians have been cursed above all other people in

history. Indians have

anthropologists.”

SOURCE: Vine Deloria, Custer Died for Your Sins : ; an Indian manifesto ([New York] Avon [1970]), p. 78

Citation Styles: Humanities

Footnotes or Endnotes• Text: “… and cursed him royally1.” • Notes:

1John Coffey, Extreme Toxicity (East Lansing: MSU Press, 1976), 3; Celeste Pilkingon, “Nothing Accomplished,” Continuity Review 23 (Mar. 1983): 17-45.

Citation Styles: Social Science

Bibliography• Text: “… and cursed him royally.”

(Coffey, 1976:3 & Pilkingon, 1983) • Bibliography:

Coffey, John. 1976. Totally Toxic. East Lansing: MSU Press.

Pilkingon, Celeste. 1983. “Nothing Accomplished,” Continuity Review 23: 17-45.

RETRIEVING MATERIAL

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

FINDING BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG

CONTENTS

NOTE ABOUT SOURCES

SELECTED WRITINGS

PRIMARY SOURCES:Definition

“…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.”

SOURCE: Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.

CAUTION: MEMOIRS

SOURCES USED IN A WORK

sources manuscripts

archives notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

archival resources personal narratives, American [Chinese, Finnish]

correspondence personnel records

diaries records and correspondence

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 NOTES

Getting Articles From Other Libraries

QUESTIONS

What was/were the most valuable thing(s) you learned

today?

What are you not quite clear about from today’s session; what is muddy in your head?

CONTENTS

INDEX

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