Transcript Lynn Adler
South Dakota:
American Indian
Resources
Vickie Mix, Government Documents Librarian
South Dakota State University
March 31, 2014
State of South Dakota
Resources
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Dakota Office of Indian Education
Dakota State Historical Society
Dakota State Library
institutions
Dakota State University
South Dakota State LibraryPierre, SD
“Our Native American collection consists of pretty much
anything we can get our hands on related to Native Americans in
SD. History, more current issues, new perspectives on old
historical happenings”. Brenda Hemmelman, SDSL Collection
Services Librarian
The Other Guys: University of South Dakota
The Other Guys:
Center for Western Studies
South Dakota State University:
Hilton M. Briggs Library
125 Years in the Federal
Depository Library Program!
• Government Documents: Federal Depository Library
since 1889
• 77% Selective
• Featured resources for American Indian Research:
• United States Congressional Serial Set
• Department of Interior Annual Reports 1853• Finding aids
• Adler, J.B., ed. (1975). CIS U.S. Serial Set Index.
Washington, DC: Congressional Information Service, Inc.
• Superintendent of Documents. (1911). Checklist of United
States Public Documents. 1789-1909, 3rd ed., Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office.
South Dakota State University:
Archives & Special Collections
• Senator Thomas A. Daschle Career Papers
• The South Dakota Collection:
• Materials relating to the land, the people of South Dakota in
particular American Indians, and histories of South Dakota
including community and county histories.
• Notable Native Americans’ papers
• Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Papers (b. 1933 ; d. --) Lakota
Sioux, author
• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Papers (b. 1930 -; d.--) Crow Creek Lakota
Sioux, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and academic.
• Harold W. Shunk Papers (b. 1907 ; d. 1998) Bureau of Indian
Affairs superintendent
• Congressman Benjamin Reifel Papers (b. 1906 ; d. 1990) Lakota
Sioux, Republican United States Congressman from the First
District of South Dakota.
South Dakota State University:
Research Guides
• American Indian Studies Research Guide:
• http://libguides.sdstate.edu/AIS
• Government Information:
• http://libguides.sdstate.edu/government
• History Research Guide:
• http://libguides.sdstate.edu/history
These are a few of my favorite
things . . .
• Department of the Interior Publications
• Annual Reports I 1.1:yr.
• Bureau of Indian Affairs I 20.
• Geographical & Geological Survey I 17.5:
• Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology
SI 2.1:
Did I Mention?
125 Years as a Federal Depository
Library!