About This Database

An Authoritative, Informative Resource

American Indian History Online offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries. This award-winning database allows for an interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of North and South America.

Unique Learning Centers pull forward handpicked entries within each major era and North American culture area. The "Tribes and Culture Areas" section is easy to browse with a helpful tabbed list of tribes, representing more than 600 Native American groups, and a browse-by-culture-area feature. Each Learning Center and each record have a persistent record link. Users can search for entries by keyword or phrase and can browse by topic, tribe, culture area, and time period. In addition, biographies can be browsed by occupation, and primary sources by type. Examples of full citations are available throughout, and users can print, copy, and save content to a folder.

Features:

• Tribe Index: a browsable index of more than 600 tribes
• Culture Area Index: a browsable index of Indian culture areas
• Biographies: biographies of American Indians and non-Indians who interacted with them
• Events and Topics: entries describing tribes, key concepts and themes, events, court cases and legislation, material culture, organizations, and contributions to society
• Primary Sources: primary source documents, many with explanatory captions
• Timeline: information on 15,000 years of American Indian history, with extensive hyperlinks, updated monthly
• Images and Videos: videos and historical images, with informative captions
• Maps and Charts: original maps, charts, and tables with captions
• Legends: traditional stories from tribes and groups, accessible from the Primary Sources browse page and the North American Culture Area Learning Centers
• Learning Centers: specially selected entries on major eras and North American culture areas to help users find a starting point for their research
• Special Features: "Tribes and Culture Areas" feature, browsable by name and by culture area; an "Editor's Selection of the Month" highlighting an event tied to each month
• Dictionary: more than 34,000 entries with concise, informative definitions, many with pronunciation, etymology, and syllable breaks of the word.