Search the CONSORT CATALOG for items held by CONSORT Libraries. Consort is a shared catalog for the following schools: The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. You can request books held in other CONSORT libraries directly through the CONSORT system.  They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

Search the OhioLINK CATALOG for items held by OhioLINK Libraries. You can request books held in other OhioLINK libraries directly through the OhioLINK system. They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

History materials are found in the following areas of the library:

Woo Reference

Woo Main

Woo Oversize

Woo Periodicals

History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

Key Words

•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics 

Example:  Searching just INDIGENOUS will bring up all entries that contain INDIGENOUS.  

Searching INDIGENOUS and NORTH AMERICA will bring up only those entries on INDIGENOUS that deal with NORTH AMERICA.  

If you search,  INDIGENOUS and NORTH AMERICA and LAND the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--INDIGENOUS, NORTH AMERICA, LAND.

•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.

Example: MEMOR* will bring up MEMORIAL, MEMORIALS, MEMORY

By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION

•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH

•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box OR  you can limit your search to WOO ONLINE in the LOCATION box

•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.

There are many e-book resources available.  Titles that you might want to look at are:

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous memory, urban reality: stories of American Indian relocation and reclamation

Indigenuity: Native craftwork & the art of American literatures

Under prairie skies: the plants and native peoples of the northern plains

Unpapered: Writers consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging

Some keywords to consider for this course:

•American Indian*

•indigenous people

•indigenous people and sacred

•Native American*

•[names of specific indigenous peoples]

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE AWARE AND HAVE FLAGGED TERMS LIKE "INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA" THAT REFLECT HISTORICAL USAGE.

Here are some subject headings to consider for this course:

INDIAN PHILOSOPHY NORTH AMERICA

INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA

INDIANS, TREATMENT OF

POTAWATOMI INDIANS