Research Guides: HIST 284: Native North America (HC): Primary Sources from Other Institutions

Digital Collections of Primary Sources

Plateau People's Web Portal
Includes materials from a number of Indigenous nations in the Pacific Northwest. Materials can be browsed by tribe or category.
Passamaquoddy People
Includes 19th century recordings.
Indigenous Data Archive
Explores the history of US Indian boarding schools, in particular the Santa Fe Indian boarding school.
Tribal Writers Digital Archive
Features works of Native poets and writers of fiction, most of which are otherwise out of print.
National Museum of the American Indian
Many of their collection items have been digitized, and are available through their collections portal. Browsing can be done by object type and cultural area.
From English to Algonquin
This digital project explores early New England translations to Algonquin in the context of language reclamation projects.
Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection
includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940s. Most materials come from institutions in Montana.
Sherman Indian Museum collection
Sherman Indian Museum collection documents the history of the Perris Indian School, Sherman Institute, and Sherman Indian High School as well as the Native American experience in the US and within government-run American Indian boarding schools.
Indigenous Cultures, Anthropology, and Linguistics at the American Philosophical Society
Located in Old City, Philadelphia, the APS holds a wide variety of Indigenous materials, particularly related to languages.

Primary Source Databases

Indigenous Peoples of North America
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Primary source database including material from manuscripts, books, newspapers, magazines and photographs
Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
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Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series II (1801-1819). Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
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Full text versions of books, magazines, and other materials published in the 19th century. This is a collection in development. Materials now in the database cover Asia and the West, British politics and society, high and popular culture in Britain, and European literature.
American Indian Histories and Cultures
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Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.