U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online

Report on the transfer of Native American territory to the United States, including numerous maps.

(New York Public Library)

Typescripts of interviews conducted 1967–72 with Indians in Oklahoma regarding their history and culture. It focuses on four areas: traditional way of life, changes in life and culture since the end of the reservation, contemporary life and culture, and beliefs about the past. (Univ. of Oklahoma)

(Univ. of Washington & Library of Congress)

(Smithsonian Institute)

Materials related to the Trail of Tears, including eyewitness accounts, letters, and more. (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock)

Over 32,000 letters, diaries, and ledgers; vintage and contemporary photographs; oral history interviews; films; and maps. Collection covers the past century and addresses topics such as Colorado River and Grand Canyon; Native American history and culture (Four Corners area); Land use and the environment; and Economic development. (Northern Arizona Univ.)

(Northwestern Univ.)

Treaties, dictionaries, books, articles, and government publications documenting the historical, cultural, and ecological impact of the First (Indian) Nations of Southern Oregon and Northern California. (Southern Oregon Univ.)

(National Archives, via Flickr)

First published in 1727, "Indian Converts, or Some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard" was written by Experience Mayhew and provides insights into the lives and culture of four generations of Native Americans in colonial America. (Reed College)

(Bancroft Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley)

7-volume compilation contains U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders related to Native American tribes. The volumes cover treaties 1778-1883 (Volume II) and laws and executive orders 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). (Oklahoma State Univ.)

16th-century engravings. (Birmingham Public Library)

(Translated) Documents relations between Jesuits and Native Americans. (Creighton Univ.)

Photographs on glass taken by Julian A. Dimock (1873-1945) in the United States in the early part of the 20th century from about 1904 to 1911. Includes hundreds of photographs of the Seminole Indians of Florida, preserving their glorious traditional dress and customs on film. (American Museum of Natural History)

(Smithsonian Institute)

(Library of Congress, National Archives, et al.)

(National Library of Medicine)

(Smithsonian Institute, via Flickr)

More than 500 digitized photographs by James W. Schultz, showing Montana's Native American people (including the Arapaho tribe) and places in and around Browning, Montana and Glacier National Park during the early 20th century. (Univ. of Montana)

(Yale Univ. Avalon Project)