Native American Primary Sources
- American Indian Boarding SchoolsPrimary source set and teaching guide from the Digital Public Library of America.
- American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new windowProvides access to a wide variety of primary source material from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
- The American Indian Movement, 1968-1978the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. From the Digital Public Library of America.
- American Indian Quotations(Book - available in Doheny and Grand libraries) Langer, Howard J. (ed). PN6081.4 .A43 1996
- American West This link opens in a new windowThe American West, produced by Adam Matthew Publications, is an extraordinary documentary compilation of original and unique source materials on the development of the American West.
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowIncludes 5 digitized Native American Studies primary source collections:
1) American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
2) American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
3) Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the U.S.
4) The Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company
5) The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824 - Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new windowThe collection has been compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies, including: A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924 by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn.
- Indigenous Law Portalfrom the Library of Congress
- Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new windowIncludes collections from across Canadian and American institutions, from the 17th-20th century. Includes manuscripts; books; tribe and Indian-related newspapers; Bibles, dictionaries and primers in Indigenous languages.
- The Latino American Experience The American Mosaic This link opens in a new windowDocuments the rich heritage and current culture of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Guatemalans, Cubans, Dominicans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, and other Hispanic groups in the United States. Their stories are detailed through a robust collection of primary and secondary sources, beginning with pre-16th century Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires and continuing through to the present day, with treatment also given to cultural themes including coming-of-age rituals, music, literature, and cuisine.
- Native American Constitution and Law Digitization ProjectThis project of the University of Oklahoma Law Library and the National Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund provides online access to government and tribal legal documents, including Constitutions and Tribal Codes.
- Native American History Collections from the Library of CongressIncludes 5 collections: Edward Curtis photographs; Chicago Daily News photographs, 1902-1933; Western US photographs, 1860-1920; Native American Culture, Pacific Northwest; and Traveling in American (books, c. 1750-1920)
- ProQuest History Vault: American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 This link opens in a new windowIncludes a large variety of primary source records on the interactions between American Indians and the U.S. government and settlers in the 19th and 20th century. Contains records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes (1914-1971) and records on Indian Removal to the West, 1832-1840 from the Office of Commissary General of Subsistence, and much more.
- ProQuest Indian Claims Insight This link opens in a new windowProvides access Indian Claims Commission (ICC) materials, and the ability to trace the history of Indian claims by Indian Nation. Contains court documents, treaties, related congressional publications, and maps.
- Voices of multicultural America : notable speeches delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, 1790-1995(Print) Straub, Deborah Gillan. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996
(available in Doheny Library)
- North American Indian Drama This link opens in a new windowNorth American Indian Drama brings together 250+ full-text plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is often overlooked or inaccessible. Together, the plays demonstrate Native theater’s diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama—melding conventional dramatic form with ancient storytelling and ritual performance elements, experimenting with traditional ideas of time and narrative, or challenging Western dramatic structure.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowNorth American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them. The database is an essential resource for all those interested in serious scholarly research into the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples.
- Wounded Knee Legal Defense CommitteeFinding aid for the collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. Includes digital audio and video recordings and non-digitized items such as photographs, newspaper articles, etc.