Coverage: 1534 - 1850
Online collection of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. It has been indexed to allow for unique browsing and searching (e.g. by type of flora or fauna, encounters between groups of peoples, specific events or places, etc.).
Compilation of U.S. treaties, laws, and executive orders pertaining to Indigenous peoples and tribes from 1778 to 1971.
Primary sources relating to indigenous history in the United States, Canada and Mexico from earliest contact with Europeans through the late twentieth century. From the Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library. Can be searched jointly with the American West collection.
Coverage: 1828-2016
Collection of 42 newspapers from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada covering 1828-2016.
Large collection of primary sources split into two parts. Part I covers the documented history, sociology, and culture of Indigenous peoples across the US and Canada from the age of invasion and colonization through western settlement and forced displacement. Part II presents the record and sometimes-troubled history of the Indian Rights Association, an organization founded by White philanthropists that attempted to advocate for Indigenous rights.
Provides access to over four hundred constitutions and over two hundred and forty codes/ordinances of the federally-recognized tribes and Alaska Native villages in the United States.
Searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties. The map also provides external links to specific Native nation’s websites.
Primary sources, including audio-visual materials, relating to key events in the history of European maritime exploration from c.1420-1920.
Digital collection of over 2,200 photographs and 1,500 textual documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indigenous cultures. Several maps are also included.
A subcollection of Archives Unbound which contains over 14,000 FBI documents in “American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism."
Documents covering the U.S. government’s interactions with Indigenous people, dating from 1774 through the mid-1990s.
Online home of the NMAI collections. Particularly strong for images of objects/artifacts, but also good for searching by peoples/cultures and specific locations.
Current news articles covering Indigenous life and culture in the United States.
“Contains primary source materials by, on, or about Northeast Indians from repositories around the world.”