Research Guides: History: Native American: Websites

Websites for Native American History

American Indian History and Culture Encyclopedia Smithsonian - select American Indian History & Culture in topics
American Indian History and Related Issues
American Indian Magazine
American Indian Policy Institute
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Documents collection for over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855.
Black Hawk War of 1832 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project; Northern Illinois University
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Cal State Links to American Indian Resources
The Digital Collections - New York State Archives Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures. Along with these Includes primary source items, also contains essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.
Edward S. Curtis’s: The North American Indian The North American Indian (1907-1930). This digital collection presents all 2,228 photographs from this work.
First Nations Collection - Southern Oregon Digital Archives
Hathi Trust Digital Library Digital preservation repository 10,028,527 total volumes: 5,315,141 book titles and 264,523 serial titles
Heard Museum: American Indian Art and History
Indian Converts Collection First published in 1727 under the title Indian Converts, or Some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England, Experience Mayhew's history of the Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard provides a rare look at the lives and culture of four generations of Native Americans in colonial America. From Reed College - Digital Collections
Indian Country Today
The Indian Sentinel, 1902-1962 Marquette University Libraries: Articles about Native Americans across the United States and their evangelization by the Catholic Church. Most were first-hand accounts by lifelong missionaries in the field. Also, articles, essays, and letters by Native Americans, many of whom were students in Catholic schools.
Indians of the Midwest Newberry
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution
Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Historically significant, seven volume compilation of 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).
Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit from the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution
National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
National Museum of the American Indian : Collections Search Smithsonian
Native American Constitutions and Legal Materials
Native American Manuscript Collections - University of Oklahoma Western History Collections Focus on Indian history in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and the southwestern United States. Creek and other nations including the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw.
Native American Times Independent Indian News
News From Indian Country
The Ojibwe People's Dictionary
Omaha Indian Music
Portrayals of Native Americans Digital collection from the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Seminole Tribe of Florida - The Official Home of the Florida - Seminole Indians.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1763-1842 This collection contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
Treaties: Avalon Law Project
United States Census - 2010 American Indian and Alaskan info
VoS: Native American/American Indian, Indigenous, Aboriginal

Native American History Research Guide

Wisconsin

Newspapers: Research Databases and Websites

Christian Science Monitor Archive
Find articles from 1908 to 1980; Use Interlibrary Loan, rather than purchasing copies online.
Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
Google News Archive Search
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Lexis Nexis Library Express
New York Times Article Archive

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles in a variety of newspapers including The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and others.

Newspapers on Badgerlink
Newspaper Source Plus - Proquest
access provided through Badgerlink
Newspapers.com Library Edition - World Collection
Proquest database available through Badgerlink. Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
The Guardian