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Native American Studies Collections

Reference & Research material contents

Scholarly Journals & Series
& other periodicals by and about
Native Americans

Remember, you must use the specialized Native American periodical indexes or more general social sciences and humanities indexes to identify individual articles of interest.

The current year of journals shelved in Green Library is normally found in the Current Periodicals. Bound volumes are shelved in the Stack by call number. There is a guide for finding periodicals in the library.

Many Native American periodicals -- particulary earlier runs before 1980 -- are on microfilm (in the Green Library Media and Microtext Room). There is an alphabetical listing of many of the titles. This list, however, is not exhaustive; check Socrates using the "Browse Periodical Title" search.

Some Native American newspapers are now fulltext on the web.

Scholarly Journals & Series

Older material dealing with Native Americans will be found in a number of places, but one of the major areas of concentration is in the Dewey 970s located in the Auxiliary Library, e.g.:

• Champlain Society. Publications. 971.06.C453.
• Contributions to North American Ethnology, vols. 1-9. 970.1.U58G.
• Ethnohistory, 1954 to date. 970.1.E84.
• Schoolcraft, Henry L. Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the Indian Tribes of the United States. 6 vols. (1877-1854). 970.1.S372LI.
• U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). Annual Reports. 970.1.U58E.
• U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE). Bulletin, 1887-1971. 970.1.U58EB. The Bulletin series was superseded by Smithsonian Contributions in Anthropology, which are shelved in the Government Documents Department.

Monographic works published prior to 1965, such as the volumes in the University of Oklahoma Civilization of the American Indian Series, will also be found in this area. Material published or acquired and cataloged after 1965: the primary concentration is in the classification range E51 through E99, e.g.:

• American Antiquity, 1935/36+. E51.A42
• American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1974+. E75.A5124.
• American Indian quarterly, c1974+.E75 .A547
• American Indian religions: an interdisciplinary journal, 1994+. On order
• Akwe:kon's journal of indigenous issues, 1993+. E78.E2 N67. Formerly Northeast Indian Quarterly.
• Canadian journal of native studies. Drum songs and painted dreams, 1981+. LOCATION: Green Library Stacks E78.C2 C483 (Library has v.2(1982)-
• European Review of Native American Studies, 1, 1987+. E75.E97.
• The four directions: American Indian literary quarterly, 1992+. On order
• Gatherings, The En'owkin journal of the first North American peoples, 1990+. PR9185.6 I5G38
• Indian Historian, 1965+. E75.A513.
• Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 1979+. E78.C15.62.
• Journal of California Anthropology, 1974+. E51.A42
• Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 1976+. E51.M4
• Native Nations, 1, 1991+. GN366.N3.
• News from native California, 1987+. E75 .N48
• Northeast Indian Quarterly, 7, 1990+. E78.E2N67. Superseded by Akwe:kon's journal of indigenous issues
• Plains Anthropologist, 1954+. E51.P5
• Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1903-1964. E51.C15. This sits together as a set, but the individual volumes are also listed separately in SOCRATES.
• Studies in American Indian literatures: newsletter of the Association for Study of American Indian Literatures, 1980+. PS153.I52 A76.
• Washington Archaeologist, 1957+. E78.W3.W25.
• Wicazo Sa Review, 1, 1985+. E96.W5.

Older materials which are considered anthropological, ethnological or ethnographic in nature are found primarily in the Dewey 572s, which are located in the Stanford Auxillary Library (SAL).

• American Ethnological Society. Monographs. Vols. 1-25 are at SAL. Volumes 26 on are in Green Library but are treated as separate works; they are listed in the SOCRATES. vols. 1-25: 572.06.A51M.
• American Ethnological Society. Proceedings. 572.06.A512P.
• American Ethnological Society. Publications, vols. 1-22 (1907-1952). 572l06.A512.
• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vols. 1-95. 1-95 (1871-1965). 572.06.R888. Continued by: Man (London) 1901-1965, has been
• Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers.572.06.K93.
• Nevada State Museum. Anthropological Papers, 1959+. 572.06.N499.
• New York Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Contributions. 572.06.H61.
• New York. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Indian Notes and Monographs. Miscellaneous. 572.06.N532. reclassified to GN1.M28.
• Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1936+. [Listed individually in SOCRATES.] 572.06.Y81P.

Anthropological materials published or acquired since 1965 are mostly in the GNs, e.g.:

• American Anthropologist, 1888+. GN1.A45.
• California. University. Occasional Papers in Anthropology, 1967+. GN4.C66.
• California. University. Publications in Anthropology, 1964+. GN4.C3.
• Current Anthropology, 1960+. GN1.C86.
• Journal of Anthropological Research, 1945+. [Formerly Southwestern Journal of Anthropology.] GN.S58.
• Man (London), New Series, 1966+. GN1.M33. Man Old Series: GN1.M28.
• Western Canadian Journal of Anthropology, 1969+. GN1.W4.

Other Periodicals by and about Native Americans

Directories of publications:

• American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1985. 3 vols. (1984-86). PN4883.L57.
• Directory of American Indian Print & Broadcast Media. (1978). Z6944.75.L4.
• Native American Periodicals and Newspapers 1829-1982. (1984).Z1209.2.U5.L57. Includes list of library locations and microform availability.

Selective list of print titles in the libraries

• Akwesasne Notes, 1995+. LOCATION: Green Library Stacks E75 .A392. Official publication of the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs
  • Microform of 1969+: MFILM N.S. 3412
  • Microform of 1970-1979: MFILM N.S. 10252 For exact reel numbers, see guide (E75.P47 1981)
• American Indian Art Magazine, Library has 9, 1984+. E98 .A7 A46
• Indian Country Today (Northern Plains ed). (Rapid City, SD : Native American Pub., c1994+). Library has Vol. 14, issue 15 (Oct. 5, 1994)+. LOCATION: Law PF IE XL
• Native Americas: Akwe:kon's journal of indigenous issues, c1995+. E78.E2N67
• Navajo Times, 970.3.N31n f (Library has c.1: 5-9, 1964-68; [10, 1969]; 11, 1970-. Latest in Current Periodicals. NOTES: Began publication in 1959. Stanford copy 1 (stk): 1964-83 in Stacks; current year in Current Periodicals.
  • Microfilm of 1976-1984: MFILM N.S. 12551: reel 1-17
  • Microfilm of 1984-1987: MFILM N.S. 12551: reel 17-23
• News from Native California, 1, 1987+. A popular magazine.
• On Indian Land: Support for Native Sovereignty. On order
• Red Ink, 1991+. E75.R4 (Library has v.3(1994)-)
• Red voices: for American Indian women and their families / American Indian Training Institute, Inc. E75.R438 (Library has v.6-)
• The Web: newsletter of the Cornell American Indian Program, 1988+. E75.W325 (Library has 1994+)

Alphabetical listing of additional titles in microform (This list is not exhaustive; check Socrates)

A numer of titles are available fulltext via Ethnic Newswatch; coverage is from 1990+.

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Last modified: June 27, 2005