University of Texas at Austin

School of Information

INF 382L.1 - Spring 2006

Information Resources in the Humanities

Pathfinder Topics, Clients, and Sign-Up List

For background preparation, you might check:

1.The Oksale Virtual Library project developed in Spring 2001 for Northwest Indian College in Lummi, Washington.

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~vlibrary

2.”If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything”: Promoting reading at schools on or near reservations

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican

3. Virtual museum pathfinders

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~vmuseum

Please select your first pathfinder topic from the following list of possible topics.
Contact your client to ask if they would like you to select a mix of print and electronic resources. Please cc me in your correspondence with your client. You will forward your pathfinder in these formats: MSWord, pdf, and html. Your TA will be able to help you in this formatting if you need assistance.

I. Client: National Museum of the American Indian. Contact: Christopher Lindsay Turner (TurnerC@nmai.si.edu), Cultural Information Specialist. Note: in the past we’ve use the phrase, American Indian, to refer to indigenous peoples of the United States.

1.  African Americans and Native Americans (the social history of mixed communities)
            Student:

2.  Native American Healing.
            Student: Ellie  

3.  Indians as Sports Mascots
            Student: Derek

II. Client: Little Priest Tribal College. Contact: Gretchen Healy, Library Director, Winnebago Public Library, Nebraska. ghealy@lptc.bia.edu.

4.  Black Indians
            Student:

5.  Native American Church and peyote
            Student:

6.  Sundancing (specifically interested in information about when sundancing was banned)
            Student: Tristan

7.  Indian music (traditional, I think)
            Student:

8.  Sexuality, gender roles, child-bearing and marriage practices (and how they changed after contact)           
            Student:

9.  Coming of Age Ceremonies
            Student:

10.  Contemporary Native American Female artists
            Student:

11. Contemporary Native American philosophers
            Student:

12. Contemporary Native American Music
            Student: Susan

III. Kamehameha Schools (http://www.ksbe.edu). Contact: Kawika Makahani, kamakana@ksbe.edu)

13. Indigenous Poets
            Student: Madigan