Exhibiting Native American Cultures:Annotated Bibliography

Larry J. Zimmerman, Ph.D., RPA
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Your task is to create an annotated bibliography of materials around a theme related to contact. As you turn these in, we will post them on the web site. The themes are as follows:

Disease & its impacts	Intertribal, Pre-Contact trade
Warfare before/after Contact	Other Pre-Columbian Contacts
Religious Change	Shifting alliances & enemies
European Trade goods	Early images of Whites
Early images of Indians Contemporary Contact Points	Representations of Contact Education and Contact
Oral tradition vs. written history	Other topics as developed

Instructions for the Annotated Bibliography

You will need to prepare an annotated bibliography about the nature and impact of contact for American Indians.. To do this you will need to select sources from academic journals, books, magazines, newspapers and web sites that give primary information about American Indians and contact.

An annotation is your very brief summary of the content of the article. This is a 2-3 sentence summary. Please use full sentences, not just phrases! You may wish to include your own evaluation of the materials, but be certain it is brief. To do this you don't need to read the whole piece in detail, but you need to look at it to do the annotation. Do not just use the abstracts provided with some articles or on the online indexes!

Give full bibliographic information on each source you read, preferably using American Anthropological Association format. See American Anthropologist for examples. At least provide full names of authors, co-authors, editors, date of publication, full titles of articles and journals or titles of books in which a chapter appears, place of publication, publisher. Use approximately the order of items just listed. Do not capitalize, underline, or add italics to anything but the title of the book or article. More details in class!

The annotated bibliography should be sent or given electronically to Professor Zimmerman. This can be done by e-mail (preferred) or on a CD or diskette. Use Word or save as an .rtf file if at all possible.

Start with your texts or at the IUPUI Library Online Catalog. You may also wish to use MetaSearch, accessible from the catalog. On the IUPUI Library home page, you will find books, but there is also access to various online Indexes that have journal articles. You can also use web sites, but they should not be more than half your sources.

Exhibiting Native American Cultures:

Points of Contact

Museum Studies Special Topics, A460/560

Instructions for the Annotated Bibliography