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AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY ONLINE

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Awards:
• Selected as an "Editors' Choice Reference Source, 2000" - Booklist/RBB

Reviews:
"...fills an important niche; it is an excellent resource for exploration of Native history and culture, and a valuable starting point for research...Recommended." - Choice

"American Indian History & Culture is recommended for its content, especially the historical documents. Great for introducing students and new researchers at high school, college, and public libraries to primary sources." - Library Journal

"...an authoritative and comprehensive web source for novice and advanced searchers and researchers. Highly recommended for academic, public, and school libraries." - Library Journal

"For the school or public library, [this] above-average database [is a] keeper." - Booklist

"..inviting for beginning and advanced users...This online resource is powerful...The content is comprehensive...Highly recommended." - The Book Report

"Recommended." - Choice

"The information is clearly laid out and the database is easy to use. The quantity and quality of the information presented make this a valuable resource for school and public libraries alike." - KLIATT

About This Database:
An Authoritative, Informative Resource

Facts On File's redesigned American Indian History Online database offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies, images, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries. Derived from many of Facts On File’s critically acclaimed print titles, this award-winning database is now more accessible and easier to use.

Unique new Learning Centers pull forward hand-picked entries within each major era, serving as ideal starting points for research. Always a key feature of American Indian History Online, the Tribes and Culture Areas section is now even easier to browse with a helpful tabbed list of tribes, representing more than 500 Native American groups, and a browse-by-culture-area feature, demonstrating the broad and deep scope of information users have available to them through this one online resource.

Features:

• Tribe Index: a browsable index of more than 500 tribes, accessing all entries on each tribe
• Culture Area Index: a browsable index of Indian Culture areas, accessing all entries on each culture area
• Biographies: more than 2,200 biographies of American Indians and non-Indians who interacted with them
• Events and Topics: entries describing tribes, key concepts and themes, events, court cases and legislation, material culture, organizations, and Indian contributions to North, Meso-, and South American society
• Primary Sources: primary source documents, many with explanatory captions
• Timeline: information on 15,000 years of American Indian history, with detailed chronological entries and extensive hyperlinks to related entries, updated monthly
• Image Gallery: more than 700 historical images with informative captions
• Maps and Charts: original maps and charts with captions
• Legends: traditional stories from tribes and groups around the country, accessible from the Primary Sources browse page and the Culture Area Learning Centers
• Learning Centers: specially selected entries on different areas of interest—now including North American culture areas—to help users find a starting point for their research
• Special Features: Tribes and Culture Areas feature, browsable by name and by culture area; an Editor's Selection of the Month highlighting an event tied to each month.

Benefits:

American Indian History Online uses rare primary source documents and detailed encyclopedia entries to create a distinct, interactive, and multifaceted look at the American indigenous peoples. A full range of maps offers quick visual reference for students, teachers, and researchers. American Indian History Online is also unique in its wide range of subject entries. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase and can browse by topic, by tribe, by culture area,and by time period. In addition, Biographies can be browsed by occupation, and Primary Sources by type. Full citations are available throughout, and users can print, copy, and save all content for personal use. American Indian History Online is a valuable and indispensable tool for anyone teaching or studying American Indian history.