The first four parts are article abstracts and citations to reviews and dissertations, one put out every three months. Each one of these parts contains a subject, author, and title index. The fifth is a subject index for the entire year. Every five years, there is a five-year cumulation index. The citations and abstracts are listed chronologically, by era in history.
All listings have adequate bibliographic information, but only the articles have abstracts.
To find works on the Ottawa, look in the subject index under Ottawa Indians or Pontiac. American Indian Index. This appears to be a handtyped collection of periodical articles though 1954. There are a good number of articles on the Ottawa tribe, as well as a dated chronology of the history of the tribe from 1687 to 1893, with citations for each year in the chronology. In addition, there are many works listed on Pontiac and Pontiac's Conspiracy.