Tohono O'odham Community College Library Ready Reference

Ready Reference

Agriculture, General
•	American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Guide to USDA Programs
•	An Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds
•	Soils (USDA-NRCS)
•	University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Agriculture Publications (full-text)

Agriculture, O'odham
•	By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima
•	Collaborative Development and Qualitative Assessment of a Rangeland Management Curriculum on the Tohono O'odham Nation
•	'Diversity' Key Word for Tohono O'odham
•	Farm Subsidy Database: Tohono O'odham Farming Authority
•	Native Seeds/SEARCH and the Preservation of Regional Genetic Diversity
•	Re-Evaluating Tohono O'odham Livestock Management Practices in the Sonoran Desert
•	Reviving Native Foods, Health, and Culture: the Tohono O’odham Community Food System
•	Tepary Bean (Dave's Garden)
•	TOCA: Past Wisdom Reinvents the Furture
•	Tohono O'odham Dipper Gourds
•	Tohono O'odham's Seeds of Summer

Archaeology
•	Conceptualizing Landscapes in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona: American Indian Interpretations of Reeve Ruin and Davis Ruin
•	Historic Summary of Pima County

Architecture, O'odham
•	Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert: The Tohono O'odham
•	Mission San Xavier del Bac
•	Mission to Papagueria
•	San Xavier del Bac Mission
•	Toward a Responsive Tohono O'odham Dwelling

Arizona Tribal Information
•	Arizona Native Net
•	Gila River Indian Community Official Website
•	Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
•	Official Web Site of the Tohono O'odham Nation

Art
•	Directory Tohono O'odham Basketweavers
•	My Grandpa the Artist by Christina Chana
•	Shadow in the Saguaros: Leonard Chana

Border Issues
•	Agencies Need to Better Coordinate Their Strategies and Operations on Federal Lands
•	As Border Crackdown Intensifies, A Tribe is Caught in the Crossfire (Washington Post)
•	Indigenous Communities Set Border Environment Agenda
•	O'odham Solidarity Project
•	The sacred and the toxic: Native American traditionalists, environmental groups oppose Mexican hazardous waste landfill (High Country News)
•	Tohono O'odham oppose fence bill before Senate Article (Casa Grande Valley Newspaper
•	Traditional O’odham Leaders of the O’odham Territories

Cancer
•	American Cancer Society: Native American Healing
•	American Indian & Alaska Native Cancer Fact Sheet
•	American Indians / Alaska Natives & Cancer
•	Cancer Among Native Americans
•	Mayo Clinic: Outreach to American Indians & Alaska Natives
•	Native American Cancer Research
•	Traditional Indian Medicine and Native American Cancer Patients

Career Development
•	Career Goal Setting
•	Federal Jobs Digest
•	Interview Guide
•	Occupational Outlook Handbook 2006-07 Edition
•	Resume Help
•	Resume Workshop
•	Setting Career Goals: Put Your Plan into Action
•	U.S. Department of Labor

Casework Methods
•	A Resource Guide of Best Practices for Pregnant and Parenting Teen Programs: Case Management and Family Support Services
•	NASW Standards for Social Work Case Management
•	School-Based Case Management

Climate & Weather
•	Arizona Monsoon Readings
•	Arizona Storm Reviews
•	Arizona Supercells (NOAA)
•	Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
•	Hurricane (FEMA)
•	Hurricanes: Online Meterology Guide
•	Lightning Science
•	National Weather Service: National Hurricane Center
•	Preparing for a Changing Climate
•	Southwest Climate Outlook: Feature Articles
•	Supercell Evolution in Environments with Unusual Hodographs
•	The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment: Tribal Environmental Issues of the Border Region
•	Tohono O'odham Nation Monsoon Climatology by George Ackerman
•	Tohono O'odham Nation Monsoon Climatology by George Ackerman (Abstract)
•	Tohono O'odham Weather & Climate Guest Lecture Portfolio
•	Tucson Climate Data
•	Understanding the Southwest Monsoon

College Success Skills
•	Click here to take your Learning Styles test
•	College Circle: Free Help for College-Bound Students
•	College Student''s Guide to Career Goals
•	College Success Skills
•	Copyright Definitions (Instructional Technology Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction)
•	Copyright Guidelines (Instructional Technology Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction)
•	Copyright Information for Students (Williams College)
•	Critical Thinking
•	Critical Thinking On The Web
•	Developing Memory and Memory Skills
•	LibraryThing
•	Managing Your Time
•	Memory memorization learning techniques, improving, memory skills
•	Online Resources to Improve Your Critical Thinking
•	Overview of Learning Styles
•	Plagiarism
•	Plagiarism: Avoiding It!
•	Stop and Think About It! - Critical Thinking
•	Study Skills
•	Time Management
•	Where To Study/How To Study

Curriculum
•	Collaborative Development and Qualitative Assessment of a Rangeland Management Curriculum on the Tohono O''odham Nation
•	Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools: Health is Life in Balance

Databases
•	Agricola (see Librarian for more info)
•	AIHEC Virtual Library
•	Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
•	EthnicNewswatch (full text)
•	Facts on File (full text)
•	Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (full text)
•	FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (from Art to Zoology)
•	Global Health
•	GreenFILE (full text)
•	Health and Wellness Resource Center (full text)
•	InfoTrac Database (full text)
•	PlantsFacts (full text)
•	Science.gov (databases & websites with authoritative U.S. government science information)
•	Teacher Reference Center (TRC) (index)
•	TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network (full text)

Diabetes
•	Community Attitudes toward Traditional Tohono O''odham Foods (TOCA)
•	Community Readiness Guide for Diabetes Prevention
•	Diabetes in America, 2nd ed. (1995)
•	Diabetes in North American Indians and Alaska Natives
•	IHS Division of Diabetes Prevention & Control
•	National Diabetes Education Program (lots of full-text documents - too many to list)
•	Pima Indians: Pathfinders for Health (National Institute of Health)
•	Self-Management @ Stanford: Healthier Living with Diabetes for Native Americans
•	TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network:

Dictionaries
•	Dictionary of Cancer Terms (NCI)
•	Law Dictionary
•	Med Terms Medical Dictionary
•	NCI Drug Dictionary
•	Spanish Dictionary

Early Childhood Education
•	Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

Earth Sciences
•	USGS Native American Tribal Liaison Team Reports

Economic Development
•	American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Firms: 2002 (U.S. Census)
•	Amerind Risk Management
•	Economy of Tohono O''odham Reservation (1/2008)
•	Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development - Research and Publications
•	Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA) - Free full text PDF documents
•	REZ BIZ: Business News for Today's Native American
•	The Marana Community in the Hohokam World
•	Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
•	Two Approaches to Economic Development on American Indian Reservations
•	U.S. Small Business Administration - Native American Affairs

Education
•	Academic Freedom (American Association of University Professors)
•	Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility
•	Arizona NativeNet - Multimedia
•	BIA and DOD Schools: Student Achievement and Other Characteristics Often Differ from Public Schools
•	Dry Spell K-12 Curriculum
•	Education Indigenous to Place: Western Science Meets Native Reality
•	Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Aid Tribal Groups Developing Academic Accountability Systems
•	Indian Education: A National Tragedy - A National Challenge (Kennedy Report), 1969
•	Journal of American Indian Education (many full text)
•	National Indian Education Association
•	Native Education 101: Basic Facts about American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Education
•	State of First Nations Learning
•	TEDNA Articles and Reports
•	Testimony of Olivia Vanegas-Funcheon, TOCC, for Field hearing on
•	TOCC Website
•	Tribal College Journal (many full text)
•	Tribal Education Departments National Assembly (TEDNA)

Elders
•	A Review of the Literature: Elder Abuse in Indian Country: Research, Policy & Practices
•	Helping Our Elders Access Health and Social Service Benefits
•	National Indian Council on Aging
•	Preventing and Responding to Abuse of Elders in Indian Country
•	Tribal Guide for Elder Care: A Primer on Long-Term Care Services & Financing for Indian Elders

Environment
•	Baboquivari Mountain Petroglyphs
•	Choulic Gravel Pit
•	GNEB 2005 Arizona Meeting Minutes
•	Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
•	Sun-Earth Day Presents: Ancient Observatories, Timeless Knowledge
•	Tohono O'odham George Ackerman at NASA
•	Tribal Environmental & Natural Resources Assistance Handbook
•	Water Rights Agreement for Tohono O'odham Nation

Fast Facts
•	American Fact Finder (U.S. Census Bureau)
•	AZ Dept of Commerce Profile: Tohono O''odham Nation
•	Federal Websites for Tribal Libraries and Tribal College Libraries
•	FedStats
•	Free Printable Calendar
•	InfoPlease.com, World Almanac
•	Internet Public Library
•	Profile of Tohono O'odham General Demographic Characteristics (2000)
•	RefDesk
•	Statistical Resources

GIS
•	Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN)
•	GIS Data Depot
•	Guide to Geographic Information Systems
•	The University of Arizona (UA) Library Geographic Information Systems (GIS): What is GIS? What is ArcView?
•	U.S. Census Bureau: Cartographic Boundary Filles
•	U.S. Census Bureau: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding & Referencing system (TIGER)
•	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service: Southwest Region
•	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Data

Group Work
•	Basic Communication Skills
•	Consensus Decision Making
•	Group Dynamics
•	Group Dynamics and Team Building
•	Group Therapies and Group Tynamics
•	Interpersonal Growth and Gender in Group: Group Dynamics
•	Operative Group Dynamics in School Settings; Structuring to Enhance Educational, Social and Emotional Progress
•	Roles in Group Communication
•	Social Psychology and Group Dynamics
•	Strengthening Communication in Groups
•	Team Behavior and Group Dynamics
•	The Group as the Therapist
•	The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy
•	What is a Group?

Health, General
•	AZHealthInfo
•	H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) alerts from CABI
•	HealthFinder.gov
•	HealthWeb: Health Statistics
•	HealthWorld Online
•	Self-Assessment for Swine Flu (Do I have it?)
•	Working in Hot Environments

Health, Indigenous
•	Health Characteristics of the American Indian and Alaska Native Adult Population: United States, 1999–2003
•	Medline Plus: Native-American Health
•	National Indian Health Board
•	National Indian Women''s Health Resource Center
•	Obesity and American Indians/Alaska Natives
•	Tribal Connections: Your American Indian / Alaska Native Community Health & Information Resource Portal on the Internet

Health, O'odham
•	AZ Historical Society: Many Health Traditions
•	Cultural Survival: Enjoying a Lowfat Desert
•	Pathfinders for Health: The Pima Indians
•	Reviving Native Foods, Health, and Culture: the Tohono O’odham Community Food System

HIV / AIDS
•	American Indians, Alaska Natives, and HIV / AIDS in the United States
•	HIV / AIDS Prevention Project: Advancing HIV / AIDS Prevention in Native Communities
•	HIV and AIDS
•	IHS HIV / AIDS Program
•	National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)

Hohokam
•	Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin

Human Rights
•	A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country
•	Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA (Amnesty International)
•	National Congress of American Indians
•	Nationality of American Indians: The Tohono O'odham Nation Case
•	Resistance and Collaboration: O''odham Responses to U.S. Invasion (J. Hendricks)
•	Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discirimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada
•	Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada
•	Violence against American Indian & Alaska Native Women

Journals
•	Ak-Chin O'odham Runner
•	American Indian Report
•	Arizona Business
•	Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (many full text)
•	Gila River Indian News
•	Indian Historian
•	Kegedonce Press
•	Mother Earth News: The Original Guide to Living Wisely
•	Multicultural Literature in the U.S.
•	Native American Journal: Tribal Leadership & Business
•	Navajo Times Online
•	Science Daily
•	Stormwater
•	Studies in American Indian Literatures
•	The Indian Sentinel
•	Tribal College Journal
•	Tribal Law Journal
•	Weber Studies--A Quarterly Journal, Informing the Culture and Evironment of the Contemporary West

Language, English
•	A Lexicon of the Recognized American Indian Treaties
•	Bartlett''s Familiar Quotes
•	Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Language, O'odham
•	Arizona Native American Online Dictionary Project (O'odham is skimpy)
•	Enhancing Language Material Availability Using Computers
•	Ethnologue Languages of the World: Tohono O'odham
•	Native American Languages: Introduction (Encarta Encyclopedia)
•	Native American Languages: Major Languages (Encarta Encyclopedia)
•	Omniglot: O'odham (O'odham ñiok)
•	The Continuum of Literacy in American Indian Communities - Ofelia Zepeda
•	Tohono O'odham and Akimel O'odham
•	Tohono O'odham Electronic Dictionary

Law, AZ & Federal
•	American Law Sources On-Line
•	Arizona Constitution
•	Arizona Revised Statutes
•	Bill of Rights
•	Office of Tribal Justice
•	U.S. Code (Cornell University Law School: Legal Information Institute)
•	U.S. Code: Title 25 -- Indians (Cornell University Law School: Legal Information Institute)
•	U.S. Constitution

Law, Indigenous
•	Articles and Links
•	Basic Indian Law Research Tips -- Federal Indian Law
•	Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations
•	Federal Indian Law and Policy for Tribal Leaders
•	Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler
•	Indian Claims Commision Decisions
•	Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice under Public Law 280
•	National Indian Law Library
•	Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
•	Native American Rights Fund

Law, O'odham
•	Constitution and By-Laws of the Papago Tribe, Arizona (January 6, 1937)
•	Constitution of the Tohono O'odham Nation (March 6, 1986)
•	Detention Centers: Testimony by Chairwoman Juan-Saunders
•	Homeland Security: Testimony of Chairman Ned Norris, Jr. (April 1, 2009)
•	Indian Reorganization Act, 6/18/1934 (Wheeler-Howard Act). See Section 3.
•	Issue Brief: The United States' Obligation to Replace Damaged Reservation Land
•	Jails in Indian Country, 2000 (Includes Tohono O'odham)
•	Jails in Indian Country, 2002 (includes Tohono O'odham)
•	Relocation of Sil Murk Village (Public Law 88-462, 8/20/1964)
•	Resolution of the Tohono O’odham Legislative Council: In Opposition of the Proposed Arizona Initiative, Res.# 99-449
•	Tohono O'odham Code, Tohono O'odham Legislative Branch (2006)

Literature, General
•	enotes
•	Questia-The Online Library
•	Spark Notes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides
•	The Online Books Page

Literature, Indigenous
•	American Passages A Literary Survey: Native Voices
•	An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko
•	Introduction; Oral Traditions; Written Literature (Encarta Encyclopedia)
•	Leslie Marmon Silko (Encarta Encyclopedia)
•	Leslie Marmon Silko Bio (Voices from the Gap)
•	Louis Owens Essay:
•	Louis Owens Essay: Finding Gene (Weber Studies)
•	Magical Realism Definitions (Alberto Rios)
•	Mythic Realism in Native American Literature (article)
•	N. Scott Momaday (Native Peoples Magazine)
•	N. Scott Momaday Interview (Poetics and Politics)
•	Sarah Winnemucca
•	Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Bio
•	Sherman Alexie (LA Times article)
•	Sherman Alexie (Oral Interview with NPR)
•	Sherman Alexie Official Website
•	Simon J. Ortiz short bio
•	The South Corner of Time: Hopi, Navajo, Papago, Yaqui Tribal Literature

Literature, O'odham
•	Sing Down the Rain Educational Support
•	An Annotated Bibliography of the Tohono O''''odham (Papago Indians)
•	Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights: The Myths and Legends of the Pimas
•	Material Culture of the Pima, Papago, and Western Apache
•	Papago Literature
•	Tohono O''odham Authors (Internet Public Library)

Maps
•	Ecological Site Guide Map Server: Tohono O'odham Nation
•	El Gran Desierto
•	Federal Lands and Indian Reservations (printable)
•	Indian Lands, Region 9
•	National Atlas of the United States (maps about everything!)
•	Tiger Shape Files for Tohono O''odham Nation
•	Tohono O'odham Reservation Arizona
•	USGS Topographic Maps

Mathematics
•	Culturally Responsive Mathematics and Science Education for Native Students
•	Math World
•	Report on Ethnomathematics Research

Mental Health
•	Mental Health: Native American/Alaska Native Resources
•	One Sky Center

Multimedia
•	The Royalty of Tohono O'odham by Amanda Tucker
•	Tohono O''odham - Restoring Traditional Foods
•	Tohono O'odham Tradition Foods and Fruits by Davied Johnson
•	Traditional Tohono O'odham Songs (Frances Manuel, Lorenzo Pablo, Joaquin Garcia)

Natural Resources
•	Biological Resources Disipline of the USGS
•	Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan
•	United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Natural Resources & Conservation
•	Arizona NRCS Coordinated Resource Management Plan Guidance
•	Introduction: Model Plan for Tribal Resource Management
•	What is in a Natural Resource Management Plan?

People
•	AnyWho
•	Baby Names
•	Biography.com
•	People Search-Bigfoot
•	US Census Online

Philosophy
•	History of Philosophy
•	Philosophers: Alphabetical Index
•	Philosophy Collection

Photos
•	Theodore Hetzel Photographs (use arrows on screen to scroll)

Rangelands/Plants
•	Arizona Native Plant Society
•	Arizona Range Grasses: Their Description, Forage Value, and Grazing Management
•	Bufflegrass
•	NRCS Ecological Site Information System
•	U of A Cooperative Extension wesite

Science
•	Biology Online. Life Science Refrence
•	Eric Weisstein''s World of Physics
•	Physics.org
•	The Cultural Divide in Science Education for Aboriginal Learners (2/1/2007)
•	WebElements Periodic Table

Social Work
•	Aboriginal and Indigenous Social Work
•	Child Welfare Information Gateway: Protecting Children, Strengthening Families
•	Child Welfare Values & Principles Put into Practice: From Ancient Eqypt to the Twenty-First Century (PDF)
•	Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
•	Indian Families and Child Welfare: A Training Curriculum (PDF)
•	National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Arizona Chapter
•	National Child Traumatic Stress Network
•	U.S. DHHS Administration for Children & Families: Administration for Native Americans

Statistics
•	USDA Rural Definitions (Data Sets)

Substance Abuse
•	Alcohol Abuse in Native Communities
•	Alcohol Statistics
•	Cocaine Babies
•	Cocaine Information
•	Crack Cocaine Addiction Treatment
•	Crack Information
•	Drub Abuse: Signs & Symptoms
•	Drug Abuse: Help & Treatment
•	E.L.D.E.R.S. Gathering for Native American youth: continuing Native American traditions and curbing substance abuse in Native American youth
•	Facts & Figures: Cocaine
•	Fighting Alcohol and Substance Abuse among American Indian and Alaskan Native
•	Healthy Nations(R): Reducing Substance Abuse Among Native Americans
•	National Indian Country Methamphetamine Initiative
•	National Institute of Drug Abuse
•	Prevention & Treatment of Substance Abuse in Native American Communities
•	Tribes Take a Stand Against Meth
•	Tribes Take a Stand Against Meth
•	Working Together to Combat Meth in Indian Country

Sustainable Development
•	Building the International Sonoran Desert Alliance
•	First Nations Development Institute
•	Making a Difference: The Business Community Takes on Diabetes
•	TOCA - Food Systems & Rural Development
•	TOCA - Tohono O'odham Community Action

Technology
•	Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter

TOCC Haps
•	Fulbright Journey to Turtle Island (USA)

Water
•	Central Arizona Project
•	Southwest Watershed Research Center & Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed
•	Summary of the Hydrologic Cycle: Bringing All the Pieces Together
•	Tucson Water
•	US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Meeting/ Witness Vivian Juan-Saunders, Chairwoman, Tohono O'odham Nation
•	Water Science for Schools: Water Use in the United States
•	Water Sense: Efficiency Made Easy (EPA)

WEAVE
•	TOCC Login

Wildlife
•	Arizona Game & Fish
•	Native American Fish & Wildlife Society
•	Tribes and the Endangered Species Act
•	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Arizona Endangered Species List
•	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
•	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species System

Writing
•	APA Style
•	EServer.org: Accessible Writing
•	MLA Style
•	Online Writing Lab at Purdue

Youth
•	E.L.D.E.R.S. Gathering for Native American youth: continuing Native American traditions and curbing substance abuse in Native American youth
•	Factors Associated with American Indian Teens'' Self-Rated Health
•	Girls Go Tech
•	Guide to Suicide Prevention for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
•	Indian Tribes Losing Kids Every Day to Suicide
•	Native Teen Smoking
•	Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act
•	Tohono O'odham Nation Report for the 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Study (Executive Summary)
•	T-o'odham A-B-C O''ohana
•	U.S. Senate Testimony on Indian Teen Suicide
•	United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY)
•	Voices of Indian Teens Research Project