This collection depicts early contacts between European settlers and American Indians and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects upon American Indian life.
Manuscripts, artwork, rare printed books, photographs, and newspapers tell both the historical and the personal stories of the colonization of the Americas. Coverage:1500s-1900s.
Material digitized from the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Includes unique manuscripts, broadsides, and other ephemera, maps, and rare printed works. Topics include the frontier, westward expansion, Native American history and culture, agriculture, travel journals, railway, transportation, and the gold rush. Coverage: 1722 to 1939
Collection of FBI files providing detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism.
Formed in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) expanded from its roots in Minnesota and broadened its political agenda to include a searching analysis of the nature of social injustice in America. Provided by the UNM Law Library
This collection provides original historical documents pertaining to Native American history and life from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and other collections. Records include: Cherokee Indian Agency Records in Tennessee; Dawes Enrollment Cards and Dawes Packets from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations; Eastern Cherokee Applications; Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee; Indian Census Rolls including Indian Schools and southwestern tribes; Photos from Rinehart Collection taken during the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition; and Ratified Indian Treaties made by U.S. Coverage: 1700s to mid-1900s.
Primary source material such as letters, diaries, newspapers, maps and photographs, sound recordings of personal accounts of events, and streaming historic films. Subjects include American national and local history, African American history, world history, performing arts, government, law & politics, art & architecture, and extensive collection of New Mexico and Western materials. Coverage: 1580-current.
Collection of digitized Native American images from the American Philosophical Society Library. Drawings made on the Lewis and Clark expedition, paintings by C.B.J.F. de St. Memin, sketches by Titian Ramsay Peale, watercolors by James Otto Lewis, and more. The collection also includes photographs by Franz Boas, Frank G. Speck, Elsie Clews Parsons, and A. Irving Hallowell.