Digitized from the Newberry Library's Edward E. Ayer Collection, American Indian Histories and Cultures contains both published and unpublished primary sources that document the American Indian experience from first contact with Europeans through the mid-20th century.

Treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence, much of it historical. Includes rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online. Part of HeinOnline.

59 newspapers, most of which are digitized in full color. Few are already available on our various microfilm collections, so the collection includes many sources that our new to our Library. Collection includes issues from nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Click here to view a complete title list for American Indian Newspapers. Formerly titled American Indian Newspapers.

Tavel narratives, manuscripts, personal papers, printed books, maps, city directories, store catalogs, newspapers, company records, and ephemera (e.g. trade cards, posters, photos, claim certificates, city prospectuses, and more) that document the American west in its frontier period.

20 record series from multiple repositories in Britain: Series 1, Records Relating to the Slave Trade at the Liverpool Record Office; Series 2, American Material in the Archives of the USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel); Series 3, Papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797; Series 4, Jamaican Materials in the Slebech Papers; Series 5, Papers Relating to the Jamaican Estates of the Goulburn Family of Betchworth; Series 6, Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694- ; Series 7, Journal, Annual Sermons and Reports of the SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), 1701-1870; Series 8, South American Missionary Society Records, 1844-1919; Series 9, Liverpool Street and Trade Directories, 1766-1900; Series 10, Early Colonial and Missionary Records for West Africa; Series 11, West Indies Material in the Archives of the USPG, 1710-1950; Series 12, Archives of the Associates of Dr. Bray to 1900; Series 13, Collected Papers of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship; Series 14, Canadian Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto; Series 15, American Material from the Tarleton Papers; Series 16, Liverpool Customs Bills of Entry, 1820-1900; Series 17, Tudway of Wells Antiguan Estate Papers, 1689-1907; Series 18, Bristol Presentments, 1770-1917; Series 19, Annual British Army Lists, 1740-1784; and Series 20, American Prisoners of War, 1812-1815.

When complete, this digital collection will comprise all 1,450 volumes/bundles of the British National Archives Record Series CO 5 (Records of the Colonial Office: Board of Trade and Secretaries of State: America and West Indies, Original Correspondence). The collection will be released in modules, with the first three modules currently available: Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries; Module 2: Towards Revolution; and Module 3: The American Revolution.

Personal accounts from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. Includes multiple indexes for exploring the collection in different ways. Includes a complete, transcribed edition of the Jesuit Relations.

1959-present. Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from ethnic, minority and native presses.

Identifies ethnographic information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Topics include how the people of the culture live their daily lives, solve their conflicts, and raise their children, their religious beliefs and practices, and their history. Every paragraph of the full text source (book, article, dissertation) is subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information.

Books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscript sources, and photographs that document American Indian experience in North America.

Collection of photographs taken from 1900-1910 on the Indian reservations of Montana.

Photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, along with contextualizing essays written by anthropologists and historians.

Photographs documenting westward expansion through 1912, with coverage of American Indians. From the National Archives and Records Administration.

Books, magazines and government records, all in complete sets where possible, documenting early Canadian history. Includes over 900 titles relating to Indians (First Nations Peoples) of Canada.

Twenty volumes of description and photogravure images about North American Indians.

Full text historical documents on Native American issues. No longer available as of 2007. Some texts might still be accessible through the VIRGO catalog.

Books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

Published by the Women's Executive Committee of Home Missions. From the collections of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Sound recordings digitized from 44 wax cylinder recordings made in the 1890s of the Omaha Indians. From the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

Photographs and artifacts documenting American Indian history. Covers both the Indians of North America and the Indians of South America.

Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820 to 1910.

The actual documents listed in Steven Johnson's bibliography Guide to American Indian documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899, a major reference work in the field of American Indian studies.

Complete, transcribed texts of treaties from 1778 to 1868.

Fully searchable, highly accurate transcribed text of Kappler's complete seven volume set.

This project is a cooperative effort among the University of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library (NILL), and Native American tribes providing access to the constitutions, tribal codes, and other legal documents. It offers the user access

Unavailable as of Feb 17, 2023. Reports of the Commissioner of Indian affairs for 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, and 1876, as well as three additional reports for 1871. Also includes a map of western reservations published with the 1875 report, and detailed information on allotment and the Dawes Act.

Digitized from 962 reels of microfilm (M234) from RG 75 (Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs).

Digitized from 174 reels of microfilm (M1011) from RG 75 (Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs).

1968-1979 . FBI Files on the American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee. Digitized from the 26 reel microfilm collection, FBI Files on the American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee. Part of Archives Unbound.

Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Geographic coverage: United States.
Date range: 1970s-1990s.
Document types: Personal papers.
Topical coverage: Native American lesbian writer, speaker, photographer, and political activist Barbara Cameron.
Source institution: San Francisco Public Library.

Geographic coverage: North America (emphasis on Kansas and American Southwest)
Date range: 1966-2007.
Document types: scrapbooks, images, newspaper clippings, travel guides, museum brochures, publications, and other writings.
Topical coverage: Native American art and culture.
Source Institution: Wichita State University Libraries.
Part of Indigenous Peoples: North America.

Geographic coverage: North America (especially upper Mississippi Valley, Ozarks, and Northwest Territory).
Date range: 1788-1906 (bulk, 1820-1856).
Document types: Personal correspondence; expedition notes; manuscript magazines; literary works; lectures; government reports; financial records; genealogical notes; maps; statistical compendia; and newspaper clippings.
Topical coverage: American Indian affairs; American Indian history; American Indian culture; exploration; geology, ethnology, American Indian vocabularies and grammars; and personal life.
Source Institution: Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Part of Indigenous Peoples of North America
NOTE: This digital collection does not include the contents of Box 91, the so-called "Outsize Material, ca. 1822-1856". For the contents of that box, please consult the microfilm edition of this collection.

Geographic coverage: North America.
Date range: 1968-2002.
Document types: Personal papers, professional papers, research, clippings, correspondence, academic papers, correspondence and memos, fact sheets, statistics, flyers, meeting minutes, newsletters, programs, and reports.
Topical coverage: LGBTQ Native American communities.
Source Institution: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society.
Part of The Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

Geographic coverage: North America.
Date range: 1970-2007.
Document types: Personal and professional papers of Will Roscoe, founder of Gay American Indians (GAI), organizational records of GAI, clippings, correspondence, research related to gay American Indians, newsletters, member directories, zines, poetry chapbooks, pamphlets about radical politics, organizational records of the San Francisco Queer Club and Circuit Party Outreach Project, interview transcripts, publicity and grant documents, business reports, newsletters, and AIDS outreach materials.
Topical coverage: Native American LGBTQ experience.
Source Institution: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Historical Society.
Part of The Archives of Sexuality and Gender.

TRIAL. Almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians. From the Library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. Part of Archives Unbound.

1826-1891. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Publications and annual reports of the IRA, ca. 1884-1932. This collection is not the same as the microfilm collection, Indian Rights Association Papers, which reproduces the collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.