Primary Sources: Indigenous Peoples History

A NYPL digital collection featuring digitized portraits of indigenous peoples.

Manuscripts, artwork, and rare print books from indigenous peoples' first contact with Europeans up to photos and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
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Contains 200 years worth of Indigenous print journalism from both the United States and Canada.
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Treaties made between various groups of indigenous peoples and the United States from 1778 - 1868

The Doris Duke Oral History collection provides access to transcriptions of interviews conducted between 1967 and 1972 with indigenous peoples in Oklahoma. Broadly speaking, the people interviewed speak about the history and culture of their respective nation or tribe.

Documents, books and articles pertaining to indigenous peoples of southwestern Oregon and northern California.

Kappler compiled seven volumes worth of treaties, laws, and executive orders pertaining to tribes of indigenous peoples. The documents range in date from as early as 1778 to as late as 1970.

The Indigenous Digital Archive is here to help you explore the history of US goverment Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. Explore, annotate and learn from over 500,000 archival documents about Santa Fe Indian School and others, all kinds of boarding school records, yearbooks, and letters.

Maps, images, and documents held at the University of Washington and pertaining to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

A joint project between the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and Native American tribes, this collection provides access to Constitutions, Tribal Codes, and other legal documents.

Links put together by the Library of Congress to digital collections housed by various federal government agencies (National Archives, Smithsonian, etc.)

Images, text, physical images, videos and sound clips created by and pertaining to indigenous persons, held in the Digital Public Library of America's collection.

Finding aid for a collection and general information about Native American Woman Playwrights

A collection of materials from multiple institutions pertaining to indigenous peoples from the New England area.

Intending to record the cultures of Native Americans, Curtis published this work available digitally between 1907 and 1930. The work contains twenty volumes worth of text and photogravure images.

Described as a "transitional form" of art from the Plains indigenous people, this collection houses ledgers from 1860 - 1900, which is during the time period that the Plains people were moved to reservations.