Online Historical Resources
Online Historical Resources
Resources covering various topics on American Indian history.
- National Museum of the American IndianA 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.
- The Earliest Americans (National Park Service Archaeology)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 (Oklahoma State University)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.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowIncludes oral histories, personal writings, drawings, photographs, biographies, autobiographies, audio files and more related to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples. Find collections related to specific events, people, tribes, and more.
- Native American Legal Resources This link opens in a new windowNative American Constitution and Law DigitizationProject with access to constitutions, tribal codes and other legal documents, links to American Indian Tribal/Nation web sites.
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation This link opens in a new windowU.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873. Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, 1st - 42nd Congresses.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowHistorical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- North American Indian Studies Channel (AVON)Selection of streaming videos on Native American history in the US
Note: Print materials are in the box below.
Print Historical Resources
Print Historical Resources
Selected print resources covering various topics on American Indian history. Search the entire library catalog here.
American Indian History by This collection surveys Native American history from ancient times to the twentieth century. Entries cover specific topics and incidents from a Native American perspective, in categories of Pre-Columbian history, Colonial history, Eighteenth century history, Nineteenth century history, Twentieth century history, Court cases and legal decisions, Wars and battles, Reservations and relocation, Organizations, Religion and missionary activities, National government and legislation, Native government, Treaties, and Protest movements.
A Companion to American Indian History by Call Number: E77.C74 2002A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history.The essays cover a wide range of Indian experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance, identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery.
Native Historians Write Back by Call Number: E76.8.N35 2011A first-of-its-kind anthology of historical articles by Indigenous scholars, framed in assumptions and concepts derived from the authors' respective Indigenous worldviews. Writings stand in sharp contrast to works by historians who may belong to tribes but work within the Euroamerican worldview.
Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians by A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history.
