LibGuides: LDST 390: Native Diplomacy: Research Resources

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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of legal history, legal documents, and laws.
Full-text; 20th 21st Century, some 19th Century
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Citations, abstracts, and full-text; indexing 1981 - present; select full-text 1994 - present
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Full-text; Major resource for scholarly research relating to political theory, political behavior, public policy, law, international relations, comparative politics and non-governmental organizations.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of journal articles and book reviews for United States and Canada history.
Historical coverage from America's Pre-Columbian period to the present.
Abstracts of articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature; 1954 - present
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.
This is good place to start for most topics, including all sciences, religion, law, history, psychology, political science, criminal justice, literature, current events, sociology and communications.
Abstracts and full-text for most journal articles; Varies by title many from 1980s-present
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A discovery tool that searches most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings.

Legal and Government Sources

American Indian Law Collection
With more than 2,000 titles unique to this collection and more than 1.2 million total pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this library includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence

Congressional (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Index of Congressional hearings, reports, testimony, bills, laws & regulations from the first Congress to the current Congress.
Full-text and abstracts; 1789-present; date coverage varies by collection
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of legal history, legal documents, and laws.
Full-text; 20th 21st Century, some 19th Century

Tribal Constitutions and Indian Treaties

Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 by Vine Deloria; Raymond J. DeMallie
Call Number: KF8202 1999 (Boatwright and Law)
ISBN: 0806131187
Publication Date: 1999-12-15

Researching Supreme Court Decisions on Native Nations & People

Gale In Context: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
Includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers.
eBook Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Full-text; 1990s - present
Making of Modern Law This link opens in a new window
Find primary source documents that explore all aspects of American and British law. Access ACLU papers, records from the U.S. Court of Appeals, legal treatises from the 19th and 20th centuries, trial documents dating back to the 1600s, and U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs.

Oyez
Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia).

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text archives of six national papers of record and five historically Black papers.
Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, The Atlanta Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times with Index, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post; Full-text; Dates vary with each newspaper.

Legal and Government Resources

American Indian Law Collection
With more than 2,000 titles unique to this collection and more than 1.2 million total pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this library includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence
American Indian Treaties Portal
Indigenous Governance Database

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Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of journal articles and book reviews for United States and Canada history.
Historical coverage from America's Pre-Columbian period to the present.
Abstracts of articles, dissertations, and reviews of historical literature; 1954 - present
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.
This is good place to start for most topics, including all sciences, religion, law, history, psychology, political science, criminal justice, literature, current events, sociology and communications.
Abstracts and full-text for most journal articles; Varies by title many from 1980s-present
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text articles, papers and books relating to political science
Full-text; Major resource for scholarly research relating to political theory, political behavior, public policy, law, international relations, comparative politics and non-governmental organizations.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides extensive international coverage of all fields related to anthropology by combining two respected indexes: Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK.
Abstracts with some linked full-text; Late 1800's - present
American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new window
Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.

Chronicling America: Native American Newspapers

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LDST 390: Native Diplomacy: Research Resources

Finding Journal Articles

Finding Information:

Legal and Government Sources

Tribal Constitutions and Indian Treaties

Researching Supreme Court Decisions on Native Nations & People

Legal and Government Resources

Catalogs and Databases

Head, Research & Instruction