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Indigenous Literature

This guide may assist patrons researching topics in Indigenous Literature. The focus will be on North America: works written by Indigenous authors, as well as materials about the work of these authors.

How To Search For Journal Articles

You may search for journal articles using the library's One Stop Search. Once you have a result set, use the limiters to the left of the results to select articles from the results list. Additional options for limiting result sets are available in that left hand column (titled Tweak My Results).

The E-Journal Search list is a list of online journal titles accessible via the BU Library, and is one option for finding online resources. When you search this list, enter the name of a specific journal title, not a journal article title--in other words, don't search for subjects or keywords in this list.

Example: To use the E-Journal Search function to answer either question

a) Does the Library have access to the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures

OR

b) Does the Library have access to the journal article "'Beyond All Age': Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan’s Fiction." from Studies in American Indian Literatures?

search for the title of the JOURNAL, which in each instance is Studies in American Indian Literatures. This journal title is what you are searching for in the E-Journal Search List.  If  the search is successful, results will indicate the database where the journal is available and the specific years/dates of that journal within that database. 

 Below is an example of this search and its results in the catalogue:

 As you can see, you may find journals in your results list with titles that are very similar to the one you searched for in addition to the actual title, so always be sure to double-check your results.


Clicking on the "Online Access" link for Studies in American Indian Literatures brings up the following options, so you can see there are multiple online sources for articles in this journal available through the library:

For topics related to Indigenous Literature, you might want to consider the following databases to find more articles from academic journals: