Native American Studies Resources
Below are resources that are available for research in American Indian history and culture. Some resources may only be available at Sitting Bull College or with a password. Contact a librarian at 701-854-8008 or send an email to markh@sbci.edu if you need assistance.
Electronic Books
Below is a listing of ebooks that are available online. Titles without links can be found at the NetLibrary link below.
American Indian Biographies by Magill's Choice
Damned Indians: The Pick Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux 1944-1980
Documents of United States Indian Policy
Encyclopedia of North American Indians by Albert Hoxie
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
Lakota Dakota Electronic Texts Available Online
http://www.puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/index_texts.html
A comprehensive list of online links featuring full text versions of Lakota materials available online.
Lakota names and traditional uses of native plants by Sicangu (Brule) people in the Rosebud area, South Dakota
Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear
Moon of the Popping Trees by Rex Alan Smith
My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear
My People the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin
Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook
Net Library
http://www.odin.nodak.edu/authgate/?db=NET
Reading and Writing the Lakota Language: Lakota Iyapi U_n Wowapi Naha_n Yawapi by Albert White Hat
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal
Stories of the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear
The Buffalo: The story of the American Bison and their Hunters from Prehistoric Times to the Present by Francis Haynes.
Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region
http://www.swsbm.com/Ethnobotany/MissouriValley-Gilmore-1.pdf
Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folktales Retold by Charles Eastman
Research Databases
All resources below are available on campus through any Sitting Bull College network. For remote and off campus access contact Sitting Bull College Library for a user name and password if applicable.
American Indian Experience
A collection of more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images that explore the histories and contemporary cultures of the native peoples of the United States. Includes treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and captivity narratives; a wealth of maps and photographs; and hundreds of selected websites.
Database converage spans from Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida. Contains a "This Day in American Indian History" and a 180-page Timeline which is searchable by keyword and time period. "Tribal Communities Resource" provides at-a-glance and in-depth information on more than 500 American Indian nations.
Native American Ethnobotany Database from the University of Michigan
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
A searchable database of "… Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants."
Special Collections
Index to James E. Emery Recordings
http://www.sittingbull.edu/community/library/JamesEmery.pdf
Index to a collection of over three hundred CD recordings of traditional Lakota stories, music and history recorded by James E. Emery in the 1950's through the 1970's. This collection is available at Sitting Bull College Library.
Useful Websites
Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/
Plains Indian Ledger Art
http://plainsledgerart.org/
