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Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. With more than unique titles and 1,, pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
This library also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online. Also listed under HeinOnline. Gale Cengage Archives Unbound. The American Indian Movement AIM expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its radical political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America.
AIM used the media to present its message to the American public. Informant reports and materials collected by the Extremist Intelligence Section of the FBI provide insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism These files offer a significant source of documentation on the intelligence and law enforcement programs of the FBI in an era of increasingly militant social activism.
Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. During the s, increasing numbers of American Indians had been forced to move away from reservations and tribal culture because of federal Indian termination policies intended to assimilate them into mainstream American culture. AIM staged a number of protest actions on historically significant sites of injustice and violence perpetrated by the federal government against Native Americans.
These protests included the occupation of Alcatraz Island in , protests at the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs in , the occupation of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in , and the Longest Walk spiritual march from Alcatraz to Washington, DC to support tribal sovereignty and bring attention to anti-Indian legislation in AIM continues its work to the present day, speaking out against injustices and working to improve conditions for Native Americans.
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, videos, and news stories to tell the story of the first decade of the American Indian Movement. American Indian Oral History: Beginning in , tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke funded seven American Indian oral history projects, including one based at the University of Oklahoma. The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes.
Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living.
Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed. American Indians of the Pacific Northwest.
This digital collection integrates over 2, photographs and 7, pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. Contains more than 18, pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies years later.
Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Travels in America, Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, , published between and after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites.
The narratives in American Notes therefore range from the unjustly neglected to the justly famous, and from classics of the genre to undiscovered gems. Together, they build a mosaic portrait of a young nation. Be sure to check the subject entry Indians of North America for 18 items of interest. Photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons, and maps tell the complex tale of the efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Black Hawk War of These Native Americans had lost their Illinois lands in a disputed treaty signed in St. Their return to northern Illinois sparked widespread panic among white settlers, and Illinois Governor Reynolds quickly called up the militia, which included a young Abraham Lincoln. Both the militia and regular army troops proved unable to locate the elusive Indians at first, but by July they had begun to pursue Black Hawk's band across northern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin, engaging them in a major conflict at Wisconsin Heights before finally routing the Indians at Bad Axe on the Mississippi River.
This project presents searchable primary source materials describing the Black Hawk War of It includes the Autobiography of Black Hawk , American soldiers' first-hand accounts and reminiscences, maps and other images, and treaties and other government documents. It is a part of the larger Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project and its attempts to use the events of Lincoln's life as a lens through which to interpret and understand broader themes of antebellum American history.
Captivity Narratives from the Archive of Americana. Note click on Captivity Narratives for a selection of captivity narratives published prior to Available to the MSU community and other subscribers. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country.
Through these resources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students who were sent there.
English-Native conflicts began as soon as the first European settlers arrived at Jamestown in , when they encountered the dominant Powhatan Confederacy and realized they must build a coalition or fight to secure the region for England. These early events created the mythic relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas, which is still interpreted in popular culture. Relations quickly broke down and ended in warfare. The same happened in New England.
Other colonies, such as Pennsylvania, sought to establish treaties with the native population. The colonists often sought to appease native leadership in order to avoid struggle, but did so with a tone of ethnic superiority. These relationships were never seen as a partnership of equals; colonists sought to dominate their extensive landholdings and to remove native threats from these areas. By exploring cross-cultural colonial conflicts between European and Native populations through the lenses of chronology, politics, religion, and society, we can understand the breakdown of fledgling alliances and the impact of colonialist expansion on the Native American way of life.
Defining Documents in American History: Salem Press, Incorporated Oct. Readers will find in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents, including speeches, letters, legislation, court cases, and other sources about Native Americans. Iroquois Thanksgiving Address, Tecumseh: Each in-depth chapter guides readers with historical insight and comprehension.
Written by historians and teachers, several elements explain the document's historical impact and provide thoughtful critical analysis, including a Summary Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Document Analysis, and Essential Themes. Plus, an historical timeline and bibliography of important supplemental readings will support readers in understanding the broader historical events covered. From the first meetings between Native Americans and European settlers to twentieth-century events, this set provides thoughtful analysis of documents and speeches allowing readers to gain a better understanding of this crucial topic in American history.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, is the definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. This resource consists of more than 37, books, pamphlets, and broadsides.
Try searching the word Indian. Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment. The collection includes both published and unpublished accounts, narratives, diaries, journals, and letters. Early Western Travels, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic. During the Period of Early American Settlement. Reuben Gold Thwaites, editor. Curtis's the North American Indian. One of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from , the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture.
Curtis said he wanted to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio, are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over portfolio plates. Type in Indian, Indians, or names of specific tribes. Also listed as Early American Imprints.
Exploration of the Americas by Kerry Dunne. Although conventional narratives often have begun this topic with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in , it is critical to note the presence of an estimated 37 million inhabitants in North and South America at the time of European exploration. The historical details of European exploration of the Americas are many, and difficult to summarize. There is archaeological evidence of Viking exploration and temporary settlement in Eastern Canada and New England around the year Unconfirmed tales of Irish, African, and Polynesian exploration of the Americas prior to also exist.
But, without a doubt, the onslaught of European colonization began in with the arrival of Christopher Columbus, and quickly accelerated as the Spanish claimed land in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and South America, the French claimed land in the Caribbean and the central and northern portions of North America, and the British claimed land in what is today the eastern United States as well as Canada. The consequences of this period of exploration and early colonization are many.
European nations gained wealth, power, and vast lands in which to re-settle excess populations. But surely, the largest consequences were felt by the native peoples of the Americas, who experienced a genocide that diminished their populations by more than 90 percent within a century of European arrival, and on the peoples of West Africa, who were enslaved by the millions to build a captive labor force in the newly colonized Americas.
Family Stories from the Trail of Tears. A collection of writing by American Indians who were involved with the removal of Indigenous Nations from their traditional homelands in the nineteenth century. While the term Trails of Tears has been applied to the removal of tribal groups from the American Southeast to Indian Territory, we use it to apply to the forced resettlement of Indian nations from other parts of the country as well. The writings include narratives by survivors, family stories, memoirs, poetry, and essays concerning removal policy.
We have excluded accounts from non-Indian sources, as these are available elsewhere. Additional texts will be added as they become available. The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, Provides digital access to 15, pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
The collection documents the travels of the first Europeans to enter the trans-Appalachian West, the maps tracing their explorations, their relations with Native Americans , and their theories about the region's mounds and other ancient earthworks. Naturalists and other scientists describe Western bird life and bones of prehistoric animals. Documents also reveal the lives of trans-Appalachian African Americans, nearly all of them slaves; the position of women; and the roles of churches, schools, and other institutions.
Be sure to browse through the 66 items compiled under Native Americans.
One can search the collections for particular authors and titles. Since the American Revolution, American Indian law has evolved into a complex web of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This collection contains more than 1, titles and 1,, pages. Click here for more information. History of the American West, Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library. P rovides users with an opportunity to study western agriculture, mining, and the railroad, as well as their impact on the settlement of the West and the development of U.
The collection also contains numerous photographs pertaining to Native Americans of the West, and to the wars fought between Native Americans and the U. Labor unions of the early twentieth century as well as the two World Wars are also represented. Native Americans were an important focus of illustration in North American travel accounts.
Any traveler-artist on the fringes of the frontier was likely to consider Indians an exotic and interesting theme for illustration, although most of the images shown here were created by artists with some serious anthropological motives. Artists such as George Catlin or Paul Kane traveled solely for the purpose of depicting Native Americans, believing they were witnesses to a civilization nearing extinction.
Others, such as Walter McClintock, set out to live among the Indians and ended up compiling an impressive photographic archive. The digital collection was created in consultation with Native Americans, educators, librarians, and historians. The overall organization of the database is by tribe, including: The collection consists primarily of images, but includes some text to give context. Most of the images are photographs, but there are also ledger drawings, serigraphs, paintings and other media.
Images of Indians of North America The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division preserves and makes available more than 17, pictorial records of native peoples made chiefly by European and Euro- American artists and photographers. Most of these have documentary importance; some are also important to the artistic development of graphic art and photography. More than three-quarters of the Division's images are photographs. Other material includes drawings, engravings, lithographs, posters, and architectural drawings.
While pictorial material relating to the American Indian was produced as early as the fifteenth century, the Prints and Photographs Division's holdings in this area are strongest for the period to Many of these images came to the Library through copyright. Other works have been obtained through gift, purchase, transfer from other federal agencies, and exchange. All of the material can be viewed in the Reading Room. Hundreds of these images--which represent only a portion of the holdings--can be viewed on the World Wide Web through the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
Search by "Indians of North America" or by keyword to access some of the images and records from the vast collections. For lists or summaries of the Division's complete holdings, consult the reference works listed at the end of this document.
For thematic overviews and sample images, consult the sections immediately following. Images of Native Americans. The Bancroft Library presents "Images of Native Americans," a digital companion to an exhibit of rare books, photographs, illustrations, and other archival and manuscript materials that debuted in the Fall of , to celebrate the acquisition of the University of California, Berkeley Library's nine millionth volume.
Courtesy of the University of California Bancroft Library. The Indian-Pioneer Papers oral history collection spans from to Black Laboratory of Archaeology is an independent research unit within the Bloomington campus of Indiana University Provides a robust, diverse, and appealing search experience and enables intelligent inquiry into the culture and heritage of indigenous people. North America is sourced from both American and Canadian institutions, as well as direct-from-source from newspapers from various tribes and Indian-related organizations.
The collection also features indigenous-language materials, including dictionaries, bibles, and primers.
Topics of interest include trade and communication, Arctic exploration and tribes, the Iroquois Confederation, Canadian Catholic Indian missions, Indian removal, Indian wars and the frontier army, establishment of the Canadian Indian and Aboriginal Department, Indian delegations and Indian-federal relations, Canadian Indian treaty policy, government boarding and missionary schools and curricula, Dawes Severalty and the allotment system, dances and festivals, Alaskan Indian policies, Indian languages and linguistics, assimilation and the Indian New Deal, relocation, termination, and the Indian Claims Commission, water and fishing rights, civil rights, radicalism, poverty, and the American Indian movement.
More information about some of the collections drawn from Wichita State University Libraries. Jackson vetoed twelve pieces of legislation, including the Maysville Road Bill and the rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States. This era also saw the rise of American Democratic Party. However, recent scholarship argues that the s was a time of staunch nationalism as the Southern cottonocracy spread its plantation system further west. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Though the project is now only in its beginning stages, it aims to make available the entire text of the journals -- almost pages. Besides the text the website features images as well as audio files of readings of passages from the journals. The Lewis and Clark expedition was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore and map the newly purchased Louisiana Territory, to identify a practical route to the Pacific Ocean, and to learn more about the native peoples who lived in the region. Lewis and Clark and the rest of the exploration party were the first Americans to travel through what became the western United States.
The expedition included a Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who served as a translator, guide, and diplomat to the many native tribes they encountered. Jefferson was also interested in the flora and fauna of the European-untraveled West, and had hundreds of specimens sent back to Virginia during the two-year undertaking.
This collection of images, letters, and maps provides information about the expedition leaders, the president that made the expedition possible, and the people they encountered along the way. Manifest Destiny by Jamie Lathan. Belief in the God-ordained right of European-Americans to settle and colonize the continental United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast is known as manifest destiny.
From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time. North American Indian Thought and Culture. This online compilation is dedicated to telling the life stories of both the well-known historical figures such as Pocahontas and Sitting Bull, and also the lesser-known men and women whose day-to-day experiences give an equally valuable portrayal of Indian culture The collection is comprised of material that covers the entire history of North America; from 17th century accounts of the first encounters involving Indians and European colonists to the stories of aboriginals living in a 21st century world.
Every stage of life is represented—birth, adolescence, adulthood, and death The collection presents the entire spectrum of native peoples' experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced; and how they struggled to maintain their cultures while living in a society that often expects them to abandon it for acculturation.
Many of the biographies are about Indians pursuing their everyday lives and reflecting on what was happening to them. These accounts offer a direct window on Indian attitudes toward the earliest European settlers and the resultant transformations that took place, first as trade was established and later as displacement forced tribes into unfamiliar territories North American Indian Thought and Culture integrates these writings, images, and oral histories for the first time, providing a comprehensive representation of key events as described by the people directly involved.
As such, it is an essential resource for all those interested in serious, scholarly research into the history of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Peoples Still expanding, this compilation now includes volumes from the Indian Pioneer History Collection compiled by the U.
More than twenty volumes covering chiefs of various nations are now included, as well as a modern edition of the collected speeches of Sitting Bull. Norman Heard's five volumes of the Handbook of the American Frontier. Nearly nations are represented in all. Papers of the War Department, to War Department that are physically scattered in repositories across the nation. It also provides information about documents that are cited in existing records but appear not to have survived. Browsable by year, author, and recipient and searchable by author, recipient, location, year, and topic, the site includes documents on Indian affairs, veteran affairs, assistance to widows and children, military issues, and the establishment of the federal government.
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. The collection's volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women.
The Illinois Country Before In , the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first Europeans to visit the land that came to be called the Illinois Country. In the succeeding century Europeans and Native Americans lived together there in a state of uneasy coexistence.
The Illinois Country became a part of the United States' Northwest Territory in , and native Americans fought a series of bloody wars in an unsuccessful attempt to stem the tide of white settlement. In , Illinois became the twenty-first state, and by , authorities had pushed the last Native Americans Beyond its borders The Illinois Country Before " presents historical texts and images from the period of first white settlement of the Illinois Country to the Black Hawk War of These materials focus on life in the area originally known as the Old Northwest, which now includes Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as Illinois.
The site includes letters, travelogues, and memoirs of white explorers, trappers, and settlers, as well as such Native American materials as are available. Interpretive materials telling the story of the Illinois Country and the Old Northwest in the years before the removal of the Illinois' Native Americans assist users in interpreting and searching the site. It features President Andrew Jackson's December 6, , message calling for the relocation of eastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River, in order to open new land for settlement by citizens of the United States.
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