Native American History I: Colonial Policies

Selected to supplement Native American History I: Colonial Policies (HSTY252) taught by Dan Honyoust at Tompkins Cortland Community College.

• Books in our Library
• History Journals in Electronic Format
• Web Resources

Books in our Library

• American National Biography [REF CT213 .A68 1999]
• Dictionary of American Biography [REF E176 .D57 1996]
• Dictionary of American History [REF E174 .D52 2003]
• Encyclopedia of American History [REF E174 .E53 2003]
• Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee [REF E99.I7 E53 2000]
• Handbook of North American Indians [REF E76.2 .H36]
  Vol. 4 - History of Indian-White Relations
  Vol. 15 - Northeast

Tip: To search for books on Native American History in our library catalog use the subject heading Indians of North America and combine it with other terms such as First contact with Europeans, Colonial period, Colonization, Discovery and exploration, Material culture, Treaties, Antiquities, etc. You can also search for specific tribes (Abenaki Indians, Seneca Indians, etc.).

Selected titles in the TC3 Library collection include:

• Facing East from Indian Country: a Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter [E98.F39 R53 2001]
• Great Law and the Longhouse: a Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy by William N. Fenton [E99.I7 F453 1998]
• Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by J. McIver Weatherford [E59.I53 W43 1988]
• Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman [E59.F53 K86 2000]
• Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings [F7 .J46 1976]
• Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: the European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century by Ray Allen Billington [F596 .B47 1985]
• Love and hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David A. Price [F234.J3 P68 2003]
• Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White [E99.A35 W48 1991]
• Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations edited by Gretchen M. Bataille [E98.P99 N38]
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: the Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter [E99.I7 R53 1992]
• Warpaths: Invasions of North America by Ian Kenneth Steele [E82 .S74 1994]
• White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian, from Columbus to the Present by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. [E98.P99 B47 1979]
• WorldCat - This is a database of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Use WorldCat to find books which you can request through the TC3's Interlibrary loan service.

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History Journals in Electronic Format

• History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & subject.

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Web Resources

• American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
• Archives of Maryland Online
• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• Colonial Connecticut Records
• Early Canadiana Online
  Among the full-text collections are Native Studies, History of French Canada, and Colonial Government Journals. See also Index of Jesuit Relations Texts and The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France.
• First Nations Periodical Index
• Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
  Digitization project, currently available in French only. A catalogue search (recherche) for Crèvecoeur locates the text (in PDF format) and illustrations for Voyage dans la Haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New-York depuis l'année 1785 jusqu'en 1798. The search results also include illustrations (Mosaique) from the work: there are images of Késkétomah, ancien Sachem de la Nation Onondaga and Koohassen, guerrier de la Nation Onéida. (Use AltaVista's Babel Fish to help with translation.)
• George Washington Papers
• Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrums
  The digital library consists of over 2,800 volumes, including a good collection of early travel books. You can search or browse. The travel books and early North-Americana collections are a rich source for full-text travel and exploration books. A title search for Onondaga, for example, retrieves the following titles: Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the six nations of Indians in 1779, The history of the five Indian nations of Canada (1747) by Cadwallader Colden and The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, (Who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762).
• Historic Pittsburgh
• Historical Maps of the United States
• Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties
• Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: 1610-1791
• Making of America
  Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. It is a collaborative digitization project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University. MoA at Cornell University "is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." MoA at University of Michigan "is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology." You can also browse periodicals at Cornell and Michigan. One of the most interesting and useful titles in the collection is Papers relating to western New-York by E. B. (Edmund Bailey) O'Callaghan, published in 1849. A large section of the book (pp. 543-1009) consists of the Manuscripts of Sir William Johnson. Johnson (1715-1774) was superintendent of northern Indians for the British. A search within the text for Hendrick, for example, retrieves 61 records documenting the words and actions of the Mohawk Chief "King" Hendrick who was killed in the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755.
• National Archives of Canada
  Has a Colonial Archives Database, Photograph Database. Use ArchiviaNet to search for images.
• National Gallery of Canada
  Search the collection for images of Native Americans.
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Portrait Gallery
  Smithsonian. There is a selection of Native American portraits.
• Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography
• NativeTech
• NativeWeb
• North American Ethnographic Collection
  Images of over 37,000 objects in the Museum of Natural History collection are available online.
• Thomas Jefferson Papers
• United States Government Policies Towards Native Americans, 1787-1900: A Guide to Materials in the British Library
• Vanished Worlds, Enduring People
  Cornell University online exhibition of the newly acquired Huntington Free Library’s Native American Collection.
• Virginia Colonial Records Project

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