| Description | A collection of (re-keyed) primary documents related to early encounters of North American Indian, European, American, and African peoples and cultures in North America, as well as descriptions of the natural features of North America at the time. The documents include: letters, diaries, memoirs, accounts of early encounters, as well as images. "The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico." Currently (in 2006) encompasses 100,000 pages by 1,482 authors. About Early Encounters in North America The following sources were used to compile the database: A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924, by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins; Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn; The French image of America: a chronological and subject bibliography of French books printed before 1816 relating to the British North American colonies and the United States by Durand Echeverria and Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.; Wagner & Camp's The Plains and the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1800-1865; Robert Rogers Hubach's Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850; and Canadiana.org, (www.canadiana.org), a full-text online collection that contains documents about Canada?s history rom the first European contact to the nineteenth century. |
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| Subjects | Early encounters between North American Indians, Europeans, Africans, and Americans in North America. |
| Coverage | 1534 - 1860 |
| Publisher | Alexander Street Press |
| Vendor | Gibson Library Connections |
| Interface | PhiloLogic |
| License | This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowlege Network. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access to Early Encounters in North America is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law. |
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