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Native American Studies - Law & Government: Articles

A work in progress!Primary coverage: US communities; See additional tabs for Canadian First Nations as well as Indigenous communities in other parts of the world
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Key Article & Bibliographic Databases

There are others, but these databases provide good coverage of the literature

  • America, history and life This link opens in a new window
    A comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries with abstracts. The database content is drawn from over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The coverage of America: History and Life also includes citations to book reviews from over 100 major journals of American history and culture and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.
  • Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new window
    [Formerly titled "Bibliography of Native North Americans"]
    Bibliographic database covering all aspects of North American Indigenous cultures and histories, indexing scholarly books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
  • Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new window
    Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States, published 1990- .
  • HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
    Full text image-based searchable database of legal periodicals. Database coverage for each periodical is from the beginning issue to the most current allowed under contract.
  • Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
    Formerly known as "Lexis-Nexis Academic"Extensive full-text coverage of news (US & foreign) and legal information. Legal section includes law reviews, court cases & statutes (US Federal & State, Canadian Federal & Provincial)
  • WestlawNext This link opens in a new window
    Provides search interfaces to cases, statutes and legislative materials, and encyclopedias; legal guides on various topics; famous documents; and pre-law topics.

Indexes & Bibliographies in PAPER

  • A bibliographical guide to the history of Indian-White relations in the United States
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. Z1209.2.U5 P67
    Baker Berry Ref. Z1209.2.U5 P67
    Covers materials from Colonial period through 1974. Supplement: Indian-White relations in the United States : a bibliography of works published 1975-1980
  • Native American political systems and the evolution of democracy : an annotated bibliography
    Call Number: Baker-Berry stacks Z1210.I7 J65 1996

Additional related databases

There are others, but these databases provide good coverage of the literature

  • Alaska and Polar Periodical Index
    Index to Polar-related periodicals received by the Univ. of Alaska - Fairbanks. Coverage for most titles begins in the early 1980s.
  • CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index)
  • Hawaiʻi Pacific Journal Index This link opens in a new window
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    Multidisciplinary Index to scholarly and general interest periodicals published in or about Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, and held in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. Coverage dates back to the 1890s.
  • Factiva This link opens in a new window
    Indexes and provides full text to 33,000 news and business information sources from 200 countries in 28 languages, includes regional and industry publications, newspapers, newswires, Web and blog content.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Coverage begins in 1963.
  • Web of Science This link opens in a new window
    Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
    Indexes scholarly journals, books & book essays

Journals of note

  • American Indian Law Review
    Online via Hein Online & Lexis-Nexis Academic
    Also have full run of paper copy in Baker-Berry K135
  • Tribal Law Journal
    Online via Hein Online & Lexis-Nexis Academic
    Some issues are freely available online through the Tribal Law Journal web site at the UNM School of Law
  • Indian Law Reporter
    Also have paper copy in Baker-Berry KF8201.A3 I5
    Reports on cases in Tribal, State, & Federal courts, published from 1974-2013
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