Ethnic Studies

Digitized archive of monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections pertaining to Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.

This collection consists of official records of encounters between Indigenous peoples and American Territorial officials as chronicled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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.

A research database from the British publisher Adam Matthew 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.