March 31, 2014 Web Conferencing presentation for Minitex Region including presenters from Minnesota, Michigan and South Dakota.

1. South Dakota:
American Indian
Resources
Vickie Mix, Government Documents Librarian
South Dakota State University
March 31, 2014

3. Seven Reservations in
South Dakota

4. State of South Dakota
Resources
• South Dakota Office of Indian Education
• South Dakota State Historical Society
• South Dakota State Library
• South Dakota State University
• The “other” university (USD)

7. South Dakota State Library-
Pierre, 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

8. South Dakota State University:
Hilton M. Briggs Library

9. 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.

11. 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.

14. 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

16. The Other Guys: University of South
Dakota

17. The Other Guys:
Center for Western Studies

18. 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:

23. Did I Mention?
125 Years as a Federal Depository
Library!