GALILEO Resources for Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. If you would like to find resources to celebrate the history and traditions of Native Americans, take a look at these GALILEO resources.
Encyclopædia Britannica includes an article about the Native American people along with many great images, maps, and links to related articles. You can also search for events (e.g., Trail of Tears, Battle of Little Bighorn), tribal names (e.g., Cherokee, Seminoles), or names (e.g., Sequoyah, Sitting Bull). In addition, Annals of American History offers many primary source documents. Just search for Native American to see documents.
History Reference Center offers articles, biographical information, primary source documents, and historical images. Search for Indians of North America or by event or name to find these. From the main search page, you can limit your search to a particular time period by choosing it in the Timeline section.
To find literary criticism, biographical information, reviews, and much more on Native American authors and their works, take a look at Literary Reference Center. Search for a name, book title, or theme, or you can search for Indians of North American for a broad search. Here’s a tip: if you go to Advanced Search, leave the search box blank, and limit to Native American in the Literary Author’s Cultural Identity, you’ll be able to see all results from Native American authors without having to choose an author name, title, or theme.
To find fiction book recommendations, search NoveList or NoveList K-8 for Indians of North America. To find Native American authors, use the Advanced Search, leave the search box blank, and choose Native American in the Author’s Cultural Identity field.
For information about Native Americans in Georgia, the New Georgia Encyclopedia offers quite a few articles about Native American history and culture. Read about the read about the Creek Indians and their leaders, including Tomochichi and Mary Musgrove, or read about about the Cherokee Indians and their removal. You can also browse to the History and Archaeology section and see articles under Archaeology and Early History to learn about the Native Americans in Georgia’s early history. The Digital Library of Georgia includes the Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 collection, which contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States. Finally, GeorgiaInfo provides links to resources about Native Americans in Georgia.
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