You might try to get specific about a particular tribe. For example, if you are interested in the Ojibwa, use that term rather than a more general search on Indians of North America . Or you could cover several options using a keyword search to find either Indians of North America or Native Americans . Now, this is only part of the story since the computer has no idea you want books about artists. Use Boolean operators and qualifying terms described in the Guide to Advanced Searching in the Online Catalog to combine your search phrases.
Boolean operators are words like or and and .
The qualifying terms in this search are the .su. Any time you type this code you are telling the computer to look in a specific area of the record for the word or phrase you typed just before. Here it is the subject field since we know that Indians of North America is a Library of Congress Subject Heading and we want the book to be about artists. Transfer your search to other databases to get journal articles. You do not need to retype your search or change it if it was well-structured originally.