Native Americans / American West - History - United States

Collections

Indigenous Peoples of North America
Archive including extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical, photograph, and short film collections. Includes 52 collections from U.S. and Canadian universities, government agencies, Indian societies, religious societies, and more.
Native American tribal histories
This collection consists of official records of encounters between Indigenous peoples and American Territorial officials as chronicled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. The FBI files in this database provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
American West
A research database with original manuscripts, maps, ephemera, and printed sources from the Newberry Library, Chicago. The documents detail frontier life, Native Americans, the growth of urban centers, the environmental impact of westward expansion, and life in the borderlands.

The American Indian and the United States: A Documentary History
Davis Family Library Ref E93 .W27 (4 volumes)
Reprinted documents including reports, debates, laws, treaties, and legal decisions.
American Indian & Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817 – 1899
Open access (free), digitized U.S. Congress House and Senate reports & documents, maps & illustrations. More focused than searching the entire U.S Serial Set digital collection (Midd subscription database).

War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
From 1789 until the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824, Indian affairs were under the direct control of the Secretary of War. This collection consists of the letters received by and letters sent to the War Department.
Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the survey of conditions of the Indians in the US
This collection comprises two sets of documents that helped the response to 40 years of failed Native American policies. The first is the full text of the report entitled The Problem of Indian Administration, better known as the Meriam Report. The second comprises the 41-part report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs detailing the conditions of life and the effects of policies and programs enacted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Native Americans. Both of these collections provide unique documentary insights into many major tribes: Sioux, Navaho, Quapaw, Chickasaw, Apache, Pueblo, Ute, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kickapoo, Klamath, and many others.
Indian trade in the Southeastern Spanish borderlands: papers of Panton, Leslie & Company
Comprising the papers of the Panton, Leslie & Co., a trading firm, this collection is the most complete ethnographic collection available for the study of the American Indians of the Southeast. More than 8,000 legal, political and diplomatic documents recording the company’s operations for over half a century have been selected and organized for this collection.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
These seven volumes digitized by Oklahoma State cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970.
Native American Collection (Independent Voices)
Native American collection covers the late 1960s and early 1970s. "Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries."

American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893
A collection of almost 14,000 letters written by Presbyterian Christian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893.

John Muir Papers
From Holt-Atherton Special Collections at The University of the Pacific.