Topics covered include key ideas and issues, religious and political leaders, primary ceremonies, mythic figures, and related cultural subjects, such as basketry, whaling, farming, and bison hunting, which have religious significance for Native peoples. Contributors include noted scholars of American Indian religious culture, including many who come from tribal traditions and can offer valuable insights and observations from their personal experience.

Short entries covering the time of early contact to 1900. Includes famous figures as well as lesser known individuals. Also includes non-Indians with connections to the Native American Story.

(Click on volume 1 or 2 to access.) Comprehensive history of the native peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

A quick reference guide for many of the people, places, and things connected to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, as well as for the other officially recognized Cherokee groups, the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokees.

More than 450 entries about inventions of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America.

Volume One contains essays on subjects and people that are general in scope and arranged alphabetically by subject; Volume Two is dedicated to primary documents regarding Indian removal and examines specific information about political debates, Indian responses to removal policy, and removals of individual tribes.

Contains nearly 200 articles on a wide range of topics.

Covers 350 years of history in more than 1200 entries. Describes sacred objects, plants, healing ceremonies, etc.

The new, three-volume Encyclopedia of Native American History offers a comprehensive and authoritative look at the most important individuals, events, and topics in American Indian history. Researchers and students alike will benefit from the in-depth coverage of tribes, notable leaders and events, customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, religion, and more. Covering the period from the first human settlements in the Americas to the present day, this set features black-and-white photographs, an insert of full-color maps, an appendix, and cross-references.

More than 600 extensively cross-referenced entries detail, wars and battles, treaties, tribes, individuals and places, weaponry, important concepts.

Arranged by cultural and geographical area. Contains brief entries on tribes, confederacies, and other groups. Heavily illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs.

Includes descriptions of one hundred tribes, one hundred biographies, one hundred interpretive entries that present brief overviews of significant topics, historical eras, and cultural traditions, and a final category of entries providing definitions for terms and events that are frequently mentioned and often misunderstood. Nearly half the tribal entries were prepared by tribal members.

Contains articles written by leading scholars in the field and is published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. The online edition is presented by the Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center.

Includes 123 entries drawn from Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians.

Four volume source presents historical, cultural, and current information on nearly 400 Native groups within 13 geographic regions.

Essays on the ethnography, linguistics, archaeology, physical anthropology and social anthropology of Mesoamerican native cultures. Updated with supplements.

In thematic chapters and encyclopedia-style entries, examines the characters and deities, rituals, sacred locations and objects, concepts, and stories that define and distinguish mythological cultures of various indigenous peoples.

An encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology. A standard reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Leading authorities have contributed chapters to each volume. Area volumes include separate chapters on all tribes.

Online version titled Dictionary of Native American Literature
Includes more than 70 essays. Content arranged by subject and period, beginning with Native American oral literature to writings in the early 1990s.

Essays provide a fresh perspective on Native American history by focusing on how Indians lived and helped shape each of the United States.

Features four types of articles: works, key fictional characters, authors, and terms or events.

Entries on more than 270 Native American women in a variety of disciplines, including law, medicine, art, and education.

Organized geographically. Basic information about tribes: articles include sections on location, population, language, history, religion, government, customs, dwellings, diet, key technology, trade, notable arts, transportation, dress, and war/ weapons.

first comprehensive introduction to the treaties that promised land, self-government, financial assistance, and cultural protections to many of the over 500 tribes of North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada). Going well beyond describing terms and conditions, it is the only reference to explore the historical, political, legal, and geographical contexts in which each treaty took shape.