This collection offers detailed contemporaneous documentation of political, military, and governmental activities related to indigenous peoples of the continental United States and Alaskan territory during the 19th century.
This resource is an archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence, comprising nearly 1,000 unique titles and more than 1.2 million total pages dedicated to American Indian Law.
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This resource is one of several History Vault modules, and consists of a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and westward migration. The two major collections on the 20th Century in this module are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and records from the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes. In addition to these 20th Century records, American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 features a number of excellent collections on American Indians in the 19th Century, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.
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The Civil Rights and Social Justice collection contains 650+ titles from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, nearly 1,000 congressional hearings, civil rights legislative histories, and nearly 1,400 books, reports, and publications.
Ethnic Diversity Source pulls from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies, and primary source documents to cover culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of:
African Americans
Arab Americans
Asian Americans
European Americans
Jewish Americans
Latinx Americans
Native Americans
Multiracial Americans
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Provides access Indian Claims Commission (ICC) materials, and the ability to trace the history of Indian claims by Indian Nation. Contains court documents, treaties, related congressional publications, and maps.
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American Indian Histories and Cultures is a digital collection providing insight into American Indians and European/American relations from first contact through the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. Users can explore primary source materials including: manuscripts, artwork, photographs, interactive maps, printed materials and newspapers.
American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
Covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations. The collection brings together primary source archival documents from sources like the US Department of the Interior, missions, and manuscripts collections. Part 2 is a never before digitized collection of papers from the Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986.
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North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages of autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files to create a comprehensive representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.
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