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Oral History

Inuit Cultural Perspectives 

Memories Come To Us in the Rain and the Wind , (Extracts from) Oral Histories and

Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families

Oral Histories of the Mi'kmaq People 

Oral Narratives and Aboriginal Pasts:

An Interdisciplinary Review of the Literatures on Oral Traditions and Oral Histories

 

Our Elders , Interviews with Saskatchewan Elders

When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird 

An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo

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General Resources

American Society for Ethnohistory 

Guides to Catholic-Related Records about Native Americans in the United States  from Marquette University

History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman  by David Levin

Newberry Library 

Northeast

Carlisle Indian Industrial School 

Early America: the Native and Colonial Northeast 

First Peoples of the Northeast  by Esther K. Braun and David P. Braun, Moccasin Hill Press.

Guide to Records Relating to Native America 

History of the Horseneck Riots 

Hstory of the Indian King Tavern 

Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets 

Lenape Village at Waterloo Village 

Marks in Time: Delaware Treaty History 

Massachusetts State Archives Microfilm Card Index of Native Americans 

Nanticoke Indian History 

Ne-Do-Ba , Abenaki hisory

Plymouth Colony 

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 

Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779 

The Long Island Indians   by Thomas Bayless

Southeast, including Caribbean

Among the Creeks 

Archives of the Mississippi History Now online journal 

Bacon's Rebellion and the Defeat of the Saponi Tribes at Occoneechee Island 

History & Archaeology of Georgia  from the Georgia Encyclopaedia

History of the Caddo Indians 

Native American Conquest , Spanish Conquistadors in the New World

North Carolina History  a summary by the North Carolina State Library

North Georgia history 

Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery 

Seminole History  from the state of Florida

Tennessee History  from the Tennessee Blue Book (PDF files, search the index)

The Chickasaw Villages 

Virginia Council on Indians 

Virginia's First Peoples , from Virginia's Council on Indians

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Midwest including Northern Plains

Angie Debo Collection , index and a short biography

Articles on "Indians" from the Handbook of Texas Online 

Band Affiliation of Potawatomi Treaty Signatories 

BlackHawk War of 1832 , primary source materials and interpretive accounts

Chickasaw Historical Research 

Fort Phil Kearny/Bozeman Trail Association 

From Site to Story , The Upper MIssissippi's Buried Past

Great Lakes Project: 

The Geographic Location of Potawatomi Bands: 1795-1846

Grinter Place State Historic Site 

Guide to the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archive 

Illini Confederation: Lords of the Mississippi Valley 

Introduction to Dakota Culture and History 

Introduction to Ojibway Culture and History 

Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana 

Kansas History Museum 

Kaw Mission State Historic Site 

maquah.net 

Muscogee (Creek) History 

Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archives: The Miami Collection 

Oklahoma History , from Oklahoma GenWeb

Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site 

Pawnee Rock State Historic Site 

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 

From the Library of Congress

Sand Creek Massacre Documentary Film 

Shawnee Methodist Mission 

Tejas: Life and Times of the Caddo 

Texas Indians 

Texas Indians and Texas Place Names 

Tribal History 

Washita Battlefield National Historic Sit 

Southwest, Great Basin and California

Indian Country Map Buy at AllPosters.com

A Short Overview of California Indian History 

American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest 

with excerpts from the book concerning Isleta Pueblo and Indian Rights.

Brief History of Sabino Canyon , Tucson, AZ, including:

An Archaeological Survey of the Sabino Canyon Ruin Area, by Robin H. Rutherfoord
The Sabino Canyon Ruin Survey: What We Found by Allen Dart, and
Excavations at the Sabino Canyon Ruin, 1937-1950, by Don Everitt

California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 

California Mission Studies Association 

Captain Jose Panto and the San Pascual Indian Pueblo in San Diego County 1835-1878 

Glenn Farris, The Journal of San Diego History

Chronology of the Aboriginal Peoples of San Diego County 

Colorado Ute Museum 

Desert Documentary: The Spanish Years, 1767 - 1821  by Kiernan McCarty

Five Views: A History of American Indians in California 

Great Basin Indian Archive 

Great Basin Project  by Tad Beckman, Harvey Mudd College

History of Native Nevadans through Photography , from the Nevada Historical Society

History of Navajo Weaving  by Lee Anderson & Eric Anderson

Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site 

Ishi and Yahi Culture 

Part of the Native California Cultures exhibit at the Phoebe Hearts Museum, Berkeley

Legends in Sand- The Evolution of the Modern Navajo Sandpainting 

Leslie and Melicent Lee: Artist, Author and Friends of the Indian 

Bruce Kamerling, The Journal of San Diego History

Lovell's Report on the Cahuilla Indians - 1854 

Robert W. Frazer (Editor), The Journal of San Diego History

Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest 

From the University of Arizona Library Map Collection

Mission 2000 , searchable database of Spanish Mission records of the Pimería Alta

Muwekma Ohlone History 

Rio Grande Historical Collections 

Rocky Mountain Online Archive  

San Manuel Band of Mission Indians (Serrano) History 

Short history of the Hohokam people  as a part of

the history of the Ft Lowell neighborhood in Tucson

Sociopolitical aspects of the 1775 revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala: an ethnohistorical approach 

Richard L. Carrico, The Journal of San Diego History

Southern Ute History 

Spain, United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas 

St. Anthony's Indian School in San Diego, 1886-1907 

Teresa Baksh McNeil, The Journal of San Diego History

The Costanoans, the Ohlone, and Prehistory of San Francisco Bay 

Web de Anza 

Northwest

Children of the Sun , A History of the Spokane Indians

by David C. Wynecoop

Coast Salish Maps  c.1800

First People of Clackamas County 

Native American Documents Project: 

Allotment Data & Rogue River War and Siletz Reservation Documents

Northwest Ordinance  (full text)

Timeline for the Spokane Tribe  a timeline

Uncelebrated Anniversary , the Marias Massacre in Montana

Alaska

In the Beginning Was the Word  The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures

Canada

Cedar - A Great Provider  from the Royal British Columbia Museum (PDF)

First Nations of the New France Era 

History of the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, the "Riding Mountain Band" 

History of the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree 

Indian Treaties  from the National Archives of Canada

James Squameyugs--Songhees Chief 1864-1892  1864-1892 by Grant Keddie, from the Royal British Columbia Museum

Living Memory 

Moment in Time: Fort Steele: A Historic Metaphor 

Native people of the Grand River valley 

Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields , the Wartime Contribution of Canada's First Peoples

New France, New Horizons: On French Soil in America 

Northwest Resistance(Canada) 

Database of materials held by the University of Saskatchewan Libraries and the University Archives.

Old World - New World 

Short history of the Northwest Coast  assembled from journals and other first person accounts.

Totem Poles 

Victoria Belcourt Callihoo  (1861-1966) Métis Historian

Who Killed William Robinson? , Justice and Settling the Land

Mexico

Artes e Historia México 

Documents on Mexican Politics 

Latin American Library, Tulane University see esp. the photographic

collections, the treasures of the collection, and the manuscripts.

Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection 

Timelines

Lakota Winter Counts 

On This Date In North American Indian History  

Plains Indian Timeline  since 1795

Time Line: 1673 - 1800 for the European presence in Illinois 

Timeline covering pre-Columbian times to the early twentieth century  from the PBS special The West.

On Photographs & Photographic Archives

Posters of Edward S. Curtis photographs

After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture 

American Historical Images On File: The Native American Experience 

American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island 

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection 

Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus 

Colorado and Western History Photographs 

Dawn of a New Day , photograph collections at the Arizona State University Library

Early Photographers Of First Peoples In British Columbia 

Edward Harvey Davis Photo Gallery - San Diego Historical Society 

Edward S. Curtis Photographs : The Cardozo Gallery

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images 

from the Library of Congress

Gallery of the Open Frontier , University of Nebraska Press and the National Archives

Glimpses into Upper St’át’imc History through Photographs 

Heritage Colorado People Photographs 

Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains 

Indians near Warner Springs - San Diego Historical Society 

James K. Moore, post trader at the Wind River Reservation 

Mi'kmaq Portraits 

Nancy Bellzona's Picture Book , 1896 Oklahoma

National Anthropological Archives 

Native American images at American Photochromes 

Native American Photographs : Nineteenth Century Images, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Panoramic photographs  from the National Archives, including one of a large group on Indians.

Photographs from the Union Pacific Railroad Archives 

Picture Collection Online  from the New York Public Library

Pictures of Indians in the United States , in the National Archives

Prints and Photographs Reading Room , Library of Congress

Reading Photographs  including :

Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance: James Mooney's Illustrations and Photographs, 1891-93 by Thomas W. Kavanagh

Reading Photographs by Thomas W. Kavanagh

on the examination of the Wanamaker Collection of American Indian photographs

Domestic Architecture in the Comanche Village on Medicine Creek, Indian Territory, Winter by Thomas W. Kavanagh

Reading Historic Photographs: Photographers of the Pawnee by Thomas W. Kavanagh

Richard Throssel: Photographer of the Crows 

Selected Photographs  from the Helios exhibition at the National Museum of American Art

Smithsonian Photographs 

Special Collections and Archives Department, Cline Library , Northern Arizona University

Stereotyping Native America 

The Outsider and the Native Eye: The Photographs of Richard Throssel 

Visual Records Collections , British Columbia Archives

Wisconsin Historical Images 

Our Book Recommendation

We recommend:

The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic,

by John Demos
Knopf

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