COMPOSITION I
Native American Resources
Frederic Murray
Assistant Professor
MLIS, University of British Columbia
BA, Political Science, University of Iowa
Instructional Services Librarian
Al Harris Library
frederic.murray@swosu.edu
Native American Nations
Our Own Names & Locations
Tribal Nations Map
Oklahoma
• 39 Tribes
• More languages spoken in Oklahoma
than Western Europe
• Oklahoma State Question 75: 2010
– English: Official Language of Oklahoma
– Author: Representative Randy Terrill
Oklahoma: Choctaw
• Reverend Isaac McCoy (1830’s)
– Indian Territory
– Aboriginia
• Reverend Allen Wright (1866)
– okla means "people”
– homma or humma means "red“
– Oklahoma Territory (1890)
Hmmmm……
• Oklahoma State Question 75
• Do we rename our State?
Oklahoma Literature?
Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma
Momaday
• How do you see Oklahoma?
• How do you see the cultures around
you?
American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
American Indian Cultural Center and
Museum
• $150 million center will be a worldclass facility
• Based on Smithsonian standards
• Attract visitors from throughout the
world
• Projected Opening in 2017
“This will be one of the most
significant cultural institutions to
open in the next decade.”
-Kevin Gover, Pawnee (Director, Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian)
American Indian Cultural Center & Museum
Native American Times
The Native American Times is a national newspaper
which provides American Indian coverage, based in
Oklahoma.
Google News
• Google News is a computer-generated
news site that aggregates headlines
from news sources worldwide, groups
similar stories together and displays
them according to search commands.
• Search: Native American
Traditional Library Resources
• Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
– 970.1 W146e 1999 (Reference 1st Floor)
• Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today
– 305.896 E56 (Reference 1st Floor)
• Native peoples A to Z
– 970.103 N278 (Reference 1st Floor)
Traditional Library Resources
• America: History and Life with Full Text
• North American Indian Thought and
Culture
• JSTOR Journal Archive
E-Books: Ebrary/eBooks
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Full Text Searching*
Highlight Markup
Note Taking
Changeable Font Size
Online Bookshelf
• Search Native American
Class Exercise
• Select an Oklahoma Tribe
– Use links from American Indian Cultural
Center and Museum
– Locate Tribal Office Address (Record)
– Locate current Tribal Chairman (Record)
• Visit Native American Times website
– Locate a News story on your selected Tribe
(Record Title of News Story)
Class Exercise
• Use Ebrary to locate a book about the
Tribe you selected ( Record Title)
• Use one of the three encyclopedias to
locate an entry about the Tribe you
selected. Record which encyclopedia
used and one fact about the Tribe
Questions?
• Contact me:
• Frederic Murray
• 774-7113
• frederic.murray@swosu.edu
Thanks!