Contains primary and secondary documents such as artwork, speeches, petitions, diaries, journals, correspondence, early linguistic and ethnographic accounts, photographs, maps, rare books and newspapers, ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.
Presents material from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection, an extensive archival collection on American Indian history. The content ranges from early contacts with European settlers through the expanded occupation of the American west, up through the Indian political movements of the mid-20th century. The collection covers a wide geographic area with a primary focus on North America and Mexico.
An ongoing effort of the Library of Congress to digitize fragile field recordings originally captured on wax cylinders, many dating back to the late 19th century. Many items in the collection are recordings of Native American cultural expressions.
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country.
The Library of Congress collection of Edward S. Curtis's photographs includes many that were not published as part of his multi-volume work, The North American Indian.
Includes the 374 Ratified Indian Treaties held at the US National Archives. Provides access to the digitized documents as well as tools to help put them into historical context.
Includes the decisions, transcripts, docket books, and journals of the Indian Claims Commission (a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes), and related statutes, maps and congressional publications. [1789-present]
It allows researchers to search the full text of documents related to Native American migration and resettlement throughout U.S. history, as well as U.S. Government Indian removal policies and subsequent actions to address Native American claims.
Access courtesy of the Berkeley Law Library.
An oral history collection spanning from 1861 to 1926 that includes typescripts of interviews conducted by government workers during the 1930s, regarding the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories and the condition and conduct of life there.
An interactive site that maps every Native American treaty and executive order between 1776 and 1886, as originally compiled by Charles Royce in 1899. The map contains links to the original treaty text, when available.
This series includes letterpress copies of letters sent by the Superintendent of the Sherman Institute, an off-reservation boarding school in Riverside, California. The letters were sent to government agencies, the public, former students, and students' parents.
The Law Library of Congress collection contains a variety of Native American legal materials. The Law Library holds most of the laws and constitutions from the early 19th century produced by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole who were forced to leave the Southeast for the Indian Territory after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Some of these documents are in the vernacular languages of the tribes. This collection includes 19th century items and those constitutions and charters drafted after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
Includes over 65,000 pages from 126 boxes of Bureau of Indian Affairs records (Record Group 75) held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Scanned from the Central Classified Files (CCF), 1907-1939, this collection includes letters, reports, photographs, petitions, leases, bonds, wills, and other legal documents.
This NARA series contains copies of reports prepared by the Pueblo Lands Board which was established in conformance with an act of Congress of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636), to investigate the ownership of lands within the external boundaries of lands granted or confirmed to the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
A collection of letters received and sent to the War Department, which oversaw Indian affairs from 1789 until the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824.
ProQuest History Vault
American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 is a ProQuest History Vault module, consisting of digitized content from the U.S. National Archives, the Chicago History Museum, and selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and western migration.
