American Indian Studies

A diverse and multifaceted cultural and educational enterprise, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is an active and visible component of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex. The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.

This website highlights historic contexts related to Early American archeological sites for regions east of the Mississippi. The contexts—which synthesize the latest science in ways that can be quickly grasped by nonspecialists—are consensus statements rigorously reviewed by scholars, avocationalists, preservationists, and public land managers. NPS and SAA invite archeologists, avocationalists, and others to use the theme study's contexts as guides for nominating new landmarks and properties for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an 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). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins.

A guide to museums, art galleries, art associations, tribes, publications and professional associations of Indigenous art.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project with access to constitutions, tribal codes and other legal documents, links to American Indian Tribal/Nation web sites.

Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, 1st - 42nd Congresses.

Very comprehensive and informative guides to the history and cultures of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sanish, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Standing Rock Oyate, and Mini Wakan Oyate (Spirit Lake) communities.