American Studies

Hundreds of portraits across what is now called the United States from 17th to 20th century.

Access rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.

Eyewitness accounts of North American exploration and colonization. Coverage: 1000-1800's.

Historical photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Browse by topics, Tribal Nations, or U.S. states represented.

Articles presented on this site were originally published between 1828 and 1834 in the Cherokee Phoenix, the national newspaper of the Cherokee Nation.

Historical documents and other materials housed at the National Archives throughout the country include information relating to Native Americans from the 18th through the 21st century

Transcripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of Native Americans regarding the histories and cultures of their respective Nations and Tribes. Browse by Tribal names on left hand side or search transcripts. Dates: 1967-1972.

Context and connection to the National Archives' holdings of the Ratified Indian Treaties, newly conserved and scanned for the first time.

Primary source set of photographs and newspaper articles from Library of Congress collections. Most materials created by non-Native people.

Literary resource hub on Native American literature includes biographies, primary sources, and literary criticism.

Alternative publications from the 1960's and 1970's "Red Power" activist movement. Includes publications like NARP Newsletter, Many Smokes, and Native Movement, that championed such key issues as Native American rights, religious freedom, equal education, and preserving community, language and tribal sovereignty.

Digital Public Library of America's primary source sets filtered by subject: Native Americans. Topics include: American Indian Movement, boarding schools, manifest destiny, and more.

3600+ transcripts and audio recordings of University of Florida's oral history program with a focus on Indigenous peoples of the Southeast. 900 interviews with members of Seminoles, Cherokees, Creeks.

American Indian Quarterly has earned its reputation as one of the dominant journals in American Indian studies by presenting the best and most thought-provoking scholarship in the field. It is a forum for diverse voices and perspectives spanning a variety of academic disciplines.

As the journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) is based in North America but seeks to bridge the distances across the Indigenous world.

Native South challenges scholars of southern history to expand their conception of the field to include more than the black and white post-colonial south that colors much of the historical literature of the region. The journal focuses on the investigation of Southeastern Indian history with the goals of encouraging further study and exposing the influences of Indian people on the wider South.

Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL) is the only journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literatures.