American Indian Studies

Results from your keyword searches will help you identify appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings (LC Subject Headings).  The term "Native Americans" is not used in our catalog.  Instead, we use the LC Subject Heading, "Indians of North America."

Some examples of Subject Headings in our catalog

Indians of North America--Social Life and Customs

Cherokee language--Grammar

Ghost Dance

Some examples of keyword searching include:

American Indian Movement AND Wounded Knee

American Indians AND religion

Hopi AND pottery

Plains Indians AND war*

NOTE:  The asterisk (*) truncates a term and will retrieve all forms of the word that follow the truncation symbol.  For example, war* will retrieve war, wars, warfare, warlike, warring, etc. The asterisk can also be used as a wildcard for an unknown letter as in cemet*ry, etc.