Books/Book Chapters

Search PSU Library's catalog, Vikat for books, journals (not individual articles), videos, government information, music and other material owned by the Library. You may search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.

Subject headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more productive than searching by simple keywords. Listed here are a sampling of subject headings of interest for research in Native American Studies. Copies of the complete set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available at the 2nd floor Reference Desk.

*Note: The subject headings "Indians" and "Indians of North America" are used rather than Native American.

Search by Geographical Area
Indians of North America -- Oregon
Indians of North America --West
Indians of North America--Southern States
Indians of South America -- Andes Region
Indians of Mexico

Search by Tribe
Algonquin Indians
Navajo Indians
Klamath Indians
Northern Paiute Indians
Chinook Indians

Search by Topic
Indians -- Cultural Assimilation
Indians -- History
Indians of North America -- Agriculture
Indian beadwork

Remember, too, that you are not just limited to what we own in our Library. Whenever you are searching, you have the option of expanding your results by clicking on the SUMMIT button in the upper right hand corner of the results screen. This automatically redoes your search in the SUMMIT catalog of the ORBIS/CASCADE Alliance. If you find an item in that catalog that you'd like to see, click on the "REQUEST THIS ITEM" link and follow the directions on the screen.

If you cannot find what you need in the our catalog (VIKAT) or the catalog of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance (Summit), then you might try WorldCat. WorldCat contains more than 30 millions records for materials cataloged by the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries, including most academic and many public libraries in the U.S. Catalog includes books, serials (journals, magazines and newspapers), musical scores, recordings, videos, computer software, films, maps and manuscripts.

Browsing in the Library

Browsing the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy for locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you get to the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.

E51-73 Pre-Columbian America. The Indians

E75-99 Indians of North America

E81-83 Indian Wars

E99 Indian tribes and cultures