Digital Primary Source Collections
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Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new windowIndigenous Peoples of North America explores the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century, illustrating the fabric of the North American story with unprecedented depth and breadth. Comprehensive yet personal, the collection covers the history of American tribes and supporting organizations.
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law (formerly American Indian Law Collection) This link opens in a new windowWith more than 1,000 unique titles and more than 1,000,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This library also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online.
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American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new windowDeclassified FBI files on the evolution of the American Indian Movement and the growth of Native American protest and radicalism.
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest CollectionAn extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.
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American Philosophical Society Center for Indigenous ResearchThe goal of CNAIR is to assist people in discovering and utilizing the American Philosophical Society Library’s extensive archival collections in innovative ways that honor Indigenous knowledge, cultivate scholarship, and strengthen languages and cultural traditions.
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Documents Relating to Indian AffairsUnited States government records that document debate and decisions related to Native American affairs. The collection currently includes Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869 and the Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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Doris Duke Native American Oral History InterviewsOver 1,000 audio recordings and transcripts from interviews conducted by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program with Indigenous peoples throughout the Southeastern United States.
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Edward S. Curtis's The North American IndianEdward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Indian cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images.
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Indigenous Law ResourcesA Law Library of Congress guide to Native legal issues.
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Indian Affairs: Laws and TreatiesCompiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, this historically significant, seven volume compilation contains U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII).
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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital CollectionPhotographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's, drawn from the library collections of three of the Montana State University campuses (Billings, Bozeman and Havre), the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, and Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana.
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Indians of North America: Selected ResourcesMaps, photographs and document collections from the Library of Congress.
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Journals of the Lewis & Clark ExpeditionFrom 1803 to 1806 Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the people of western North America.
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National Museum of the American IndianThe National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.
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Native Northeast PortalA collection of manuscripts documenting the history of Native-colonial encounters in New England.
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Radio AlcatrazBroadcast by KPFA (and KPFK and WBAI) from December 22, 1969 to September 3, 1970, live from the main cell block of Alcatraz prison, during the Indians of All Tribes occupation. Consists chiefly of interviews, discussions, and news.
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Southeastern Native American DocumentsOver 2,000 documents and images dating from 1730 to 1842 on the history of Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S., letters, legal proceedings, military orders, and more.
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Plateau Peoples' Web PortalA collaboratively curated and reciprocally managed archive of Plateau cultural materials.
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Tribal Writers Digital LibraryThe Native Writers Digital Text Project brings the works of Native writers to readers world wide. Featuring out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources and the periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by Natives.
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Archive of Native American Recorded HistoryCollections from seven universities of first-person narratives from Native people across the United States. The project resulted in more than 6,000 oral histories and hundreds of supporting documents.
