American Indian Movement (AIM)

AIM The history of the movement as told by Vernon Bellecourt (Anishinaabe).

The American Indian occupation of Alcatraz 1969-1971

American Indian Records on Microfilm: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Bureau of Indian Affairs

1990 Census: Tribal Populations

Chronological Listing of Native American Wars

Crazy Horse Crazy Horse Archives: 1930 Interviews concerning Tasunka Witko

Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum AssociationIs there still a Custer Battlefield?

Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters: Spain, England etc.

Government-to-Government Relations with Native American Tribal Governments Clinton memorandum, 4/29/94

Hoo-Moo-Thy-Ah Autobiography of a Yavapai leader

Indian Missions in Kansas

Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets Lord Jeffrey Amherst's letters discussing germ warfare against American Indians

TheJourney of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Toedliche Verwandschaft (Native Immunity to European Disease) In German

Lakota-Nakota-Dakota


A Line in the Sand Cultural Property: The protection of the tangible and non-tangible. Cultural property belongs to the group rather than to an individual. As an individual has the right to control use of her/his property, the cultural group has that same right.

Massacre on the Marias

"Reflections on Race and Manifest Destiny" Thomas Jimson (1992)

Native Alaskan Culture and the Russian Orthodox Church

Native American History and culture

Native American Materials at Oklahoma State University

National Gallery of Art-George Catlin

The Oneida and the Birth of the American Nation: 1777

1492: An Ongoing Voyage Library of Congress Exhibition

Reading Photographs Comanche Domestic Architecture 1873: An Ethnographic Reading

Repatriation and Reburial Information Includes issues concerning: congressional acts, case studies, codes of ethics, state laws. Full text articles, bibliographies and related links.

The Trail of Tears

US Government (BIA) Definitions of Native AmericaPresident's American Indian policy, populations, trust lands, reservations, FAQs.

Indian Running: Native American History and Tradition(Text. Peter Nabokov, 1981)

Forgotten Founders: The Iroquois and Tribal Government (Text, Bruce E. Johansen)

We Must Do Their Thinking for Them (Text, Jordan S. Dill)

Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans by Fergus Bordewich, 1996 (A Review)

Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democray: An Annotated Bibliography

The Pequot War by Alfred Cave, 1996 (A Review)

Tituba- Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine Breslaw, 1996 (A Review)

Navajo Code Talkers With photographs

Choctaw, Comanche and Navajo Code Talkers

Chief Red Horse-Eyewitness Testimony to the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Hopi Oral History and Archaeology

Hopi Oral History and Archaeology 2

Lakota Oral History

Oral Histories of the Northwest Coast

Oral Traditions

An Indian On the Problems of His Race (Simon Pokagon,1895)

Indian Superstitions and Legends (Simon Pokagon, 1898)

Naming the Indians (Frank Terry, 1897)

Naming the Indians (Simon Pokagon, 1897)

Remaining Causes of Indian Discontent (John Okison,1907)

The West: A PBS Documentary 1996

The West: Pre-1806

The West: 1806-1848

The West: 1848-1856

The West: 1856-1868

The West: 1868-1874

The West: 1874-1877

The West: 1877-1887

The West: 1887-1914

Chankpe Opi

Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee 1973

Wounded Knee Oral History

Wounded Knee Site Index

Wounded Knee South Dakota

Wovoka-The Messiah The Ghost Dance

Two Views of the Greasy Grass Battle (Little BigHorn): The Native and the Non-Native

Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association

Mato Wanartaka's (Kicking Bear's) Account of the Battle

Killing Custer

Red Horse A Lakota account of the battle

Battle of the Little Big Horn

George A. Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Notes from The North American Indian E.S. Curtis

American Indian Women 19th-century commentary by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustav de Beaumont, Thomas Cather, Francesco Arese, Frederick Marryat

BIA-Classified Files

Charles Erskine Scott Wood-The Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph-Selected Speeches and Statements

Constitutional Status of American IndiansFrom the United States Commission on Civil Rights, March 1973

Database of Documents on U.S. Native American Policies

The Dawes Act (1887)

The Results of the Dawes or General Allotment Act Native American Documents Project

Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre (1864-1865)

Documents Pertaining to the Native Graves Act

Federal Treaties Made with Individual Native Nations Alphabetical Gopher Listing

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868

Iroquois Constitution

Guides to Records Relating to Native Americans

Native American Documents Project

Treaties by Nation Native American Web Services (Nawebs) has published nearly 400 downloadable full-length treaties. Excellent resource.

U.S. Goverment Bills Concerning American Indians

Western Historical Manuscript Collection

The Lewis and Clark Expedition A Washington State University Project

The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: Native American Objects and the Quest for Commerce and ScienceText and Photographs provided by the Peabody Museum

Native Nations Encountered by Lewis and Clark Arikaras, Assinoboines, Blackfeet, Chinooks, Clatsops, Hidatsas, Mandans, Missouris, Nez Perces, Otos, Shoshones, Teton Sioux, Tillamocks, Walla Wallas, Wishrams, Yankton Sioux

Real Audio Commentary On How Lewis and Clark Dealt With Native Americans A PBS sponsored site. Interview with

Gerard Baker (Mandan-Hidatsa) on the significance of Lewis and Clark

A Native American Timeline

This Week in American Indian History

Timeline: Developed for the PBS Documentary: The West (1996)

Timeline:Northern Plains Native Americans

19th-Century Timeline of Native Americans A Native American Navigator Project with important links to history

All U.S. Tribes Main Access Map

  • Data Map for 1990 U.S. Census Statistics

    Exploration and Settlement of the US (1850-1890) Large JPEG map of the US provided by the University of Texas (1966)

    Indian Removals Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw

    Federally Non-Recognized U.S. Indian Tribes-Index By State

    Federally Recognized U.S. Indian Tribes-Index by State

    Historical Map Showing the Western Tribes

    Indian Lands Judicially Established 1978

    Indian Land Cessions by Tribe-Study Guide

    Maps: GIS Windows on Native Lands, Current Places, and History

    A Map of the traditional location of the Blackfeet and Cheyenne Nations (Smithsonian Institution, 1967)

    Maps Made or Derived from Native American Sources

    Cultural Area Map With Tribe Finder

    Navajo Reservation Rug Map

    U.S. Indian Reservation Map

    The American West: Native Americans

    First Nations Compact Histories

    History of American Indian Tribes

    Statistics for all American Indian Reservations and Trust Lands

    Tribal Revitalization-Federal Recognition

    When is a Tribe a Tribe?

    History of the Abenaki Nation

    History of the Delaware Nation

    The Lenni Lenape Historical Society

    History of the Ilinois Nation

    History of the Kickapoo Nation

    History of the Mahican Nation

    History of the Mahican Nation 2

    History of the Massachusett Nation

    History of the Mattabesic Nation

    History of the Menominee Nation

    History of the Metoac Nation

    History of the Miami Nation

    History of the Mohegan Nation

    History of the Narragansett Nation

    History of the Nauset Nation

    History of the Niantic Nation

    History of the Nipissing Nation

    History of the Nipmuc Nation

    History of the Pennacook Nation

    History of the Pequot Nation

    History of the Pocumtuc Nation

    History of the Sauk and Fox Nation

    History of the Shawnee Nation

    History of the Wampanoag Nation

    The Illini Confederation of the Missisippi

    The Six Nations of the Iroquois

    History of the Cawtaba Nation

    History of the Cherokee History, Images and Maps, Geneology, Books and Newspapers, Related Links

    History of the Cherokee Nation (I)

    History of the Cherokee Nation (II)

    Chickasaw Historical Research Census Rolls, Letters, Government Documents

    Choctaw Removal

    History of the Creek Nation

    Cheyene River Sioux Tribe History

    History of the Comanche Nation (I)

    History of the Comanche Nation (II)

    The Lipan Apache (Tinde) of Texas

    Baxoje Ukich'e(The Ioway Nation) and The Iowa(Oklahoma) and The Iowa (Kansas Nebraska)

    Numunuu: The Comanche

    Oglala Lakota Tribal Historical Research Center

    The Pawnee Mathers Museum, University of Indiana

    History of the Maidu Mechoopda Indian Tribe

    Navajo History (1776-1996)

    Northern and Central California Indians Tribal and linguistic groups, maps, tribal bibliographies (University of California at Berkeley)

    Pomo History

    History of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians