Primary Sources - U.S. History Digital Collections

Rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from across Native North America, working in partnership with Tribal archives and community organizations.

An extensive digital archive of photographs, documents, maps, and essays that document the cultures and histories of Native peoples of the Northwest Coast and Plateau regions.

Documents, images, maps, and music that trace the forced relocation of the Cherokee people from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

Collection of U.S. government records (1801–1869 treaties and annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs) documenting Native American–federal relations.

Access to audio recordings, transcripts, and accompanying materials of oral history interviews that capture Native American life, culture, and historical experience.

Presents twenty volumes of text and photogravure images created between 1907 and 1930 that document Native American communities, cultures, and landscapes across North America.

Digitized materials from the Genoa Indian School, including student newspapers, letters, exams, photographs, and federal records.

Photographs, reports, and federal records that trace how the United States administered health care to Native American communities from the nineteenth century through the creation of the Indian Health Service.

Features photographs, drawings, and documents from regional libraries and museums that depict Native American communities, leaders, and daily life across the Northern Plains.

Digitized copies of all 374 Ratified Indian Treaties held by the US National Archives, along with maps and tools that connect each treaty to specific Native nations, land cessions, and geographic locations.

Full-text access to the seven-volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws, and executive orders concerning Native American tribes, including treaties from 1778–1883 and laws and executive orders from 1871–1970.

Alternative press newspapers magazines newsletters and related periodicals produced by Native communities and activists mainly from the 1960s to the 1980s documenting Red Power era organizing culture and politics.

Provides free online access to tribal constitutions codes and other legal materials along with historic treatises and research guides.

Digitized constitutions, charters, laws, and ordinances from Native nations dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with searchable records and some texts presented in Indigenous languages.

Aggregates a vast range of primary sources—including photographs manuscripts maps newspapers and curated primary source sets.

Digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and government documents that illuminate Indigenous histories and cultures across the United States, with options to refine results by format, date, and collection.

Provides digitized books, manuscripts, maps, and other historical documents spanning four centuries of Native American history in New York.

Offers digitized transcribed and annotated primary source materials by on or about Northeast Native peoples.

Offers more than 2,000 digitized items from 1730 to 1842 including letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and images that illuminate the history of Native peoples in the American Southeast.

Provides full-text transcripts of treaties from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century, including the Treaty of Greenville and the Fort Laramie Treaty.

Searchable access to U.S. treaties with Native Nations from 1778 to 1883, with browsing by tribe, treaty, or location and links to the full text in Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties.

Presents Native veterans’ perspectives on the war, with contextual materials. It includes accounts connected to efforts to honor Vietnam veterans, such as a 1981 powwow.