The library offers a new database call American Indian Experience.

The American Indian Experience explores the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Loriene Roy, the first Native American President of the American Library Association, and a team of American Indian librarians and scholars, AIE offers full-text access to more than 150 volumes of reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images.

Just included are new books:

Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
By: Deborah Everett and Elayne Zorn

This volume examines the lives and works of approximately 70 Native American artists, demonstrating the range of media, themes, and experiences of Native artists, and their influences on and by western culture. Eight pages of color plates, and black-and-white images throughout, display the diversity of work by these artists.

Family Life in Native America
By: James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo

“A richly detailed, well-documented survey that includes descriptions of the environment in which the Indians lived; their family, village, and tribal structures; native spiritual beliefs; and Indian warfare; as well as an examination of the changes brought by contact, trade, and warfare with Europeans.” -School Library Journal, April 2008

Tecumseh
A Biography
By: Amy H. Sturgis
This book-length, accessible biography explores the life of a key figure in Native American battle-lore who figures prominently in U.S. history curricula.

Sacagawea
A Biography
By: April R. Summitt

This concise biography offers an objective treatment of Sacagawea’s childhood, her journey with Lewis and Clark, her later life, her explorer son, and the mythology surrounding her death and legacy.