Databases
- Colonial America (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowThis online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the period 1606-1822. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more. Images of the original documents and searchable full text, also searchable by date, name, theme, region and more.
- Accessible Archives (History Commons) This link opens in a new windowAccessible Archives includes diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views of United States history and culture, especially African American history and women's history and historical newspapers. The date scope focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- American Indian Newspapers (BPL)From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowDigitized primary source material from the Newberry Library's extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection, dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-twentieth century.
- What this includes: manuscripts, art work, newspapers, treaties, speeches,diaries, historic maps,photographs.
Online Resources
- American Indians of the Pacific NorthwestThis site provides an 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.
- Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource CenterA collection of digitized student records, school documents, and images of the former Carlisle Indian School in PA.
- The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral HistoryThe Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes.
- Family Stories from the Trail of TearsA machine-readable transcription of stories taken from the Indian-Pioneer History Collection, Grant Foreman, editor
- List of Tribal Entities recognized by the Bureau of Indian AffairsCurrent (2021) list of 574 tribal entities recognized by the U.S. government.
- Native American Documents ProjectThis collection currently includes the narrative reports of the commissioner of Indian affairs for 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, and 1876, and three additional reports for 1871. It also includes a map of western reservations published with the 1875 report, allotment data from 1887-1915, and documents from the Rogue River War.
- Native American Materials (NY State Library)The New York State Library holds a wealth of first hand descriptions of the Native American experience in New York. These resources span four centuries, beginning with the Dutch colony of New Netherland and continuing to the close of the American frontier in western New York and beyond.
- Smithsonian Nation Museum of the American IndianBrowse online exhibits and search the collections database including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
- Statutes of the U.S. Concerning Native Americans (Yale)Part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School, this is a collection of government acts from 1789 -1887.
- Treaties Between the U.S. and Native AmericansPart of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School, this is a collection of government treaties from 1778-1868.