Indigenous American History Research Guide - Longview

This landmark exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing showcases 116 masterworks representing the achievements of artists from more than fifty cultures across North America.
This exhibit was on display from October 4th, 2018-January 24th, 2021

Based at Arizona State University, the American Indian Policy Institute collaborates with tribal governments and American Indian communities on issues that affect them and also works to nurture innovation for American Indian sustainability.

National Conference of State Legislatures list of both state and federally recognized tribes in the US. Listed by state and alphabetically.

The NCAI is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities. This resources covers policy issues, tribes, demographics, regional profiles, as well as a history and overview of the principles of tribal governance.

Brings together key resources for Native Americans and their advocates in the field of legal scholarship and service. Today, it remains the only entity that offers a comprehensive vision of past and present tribal governmental documents from across the United States.

Within the government-to-government relationship, Indian Affairs provides services directly or through contracts, grants, or compacts to 565 Federally recognized tribes.

Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Indian cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and photogravure images. Each volume is accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates.

This page contains links to American history relating to Native Americans.

Created to celebrate the acquisition of the University of California, Berkeley Library’s 9 millionth volume, James Otto Lewis’s The Aboriginal Port Folio, this presentation includes materials (more than 80 items) from rare books, pamphlets, journals, pulp magazines, newspapers, and original photographs.

Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's.

This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.

Compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office.

a representative sample of NMAI's object and historic photo collections.

The First Nations Tribal Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books, and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion. We have begun to collect and mount materials about many tribes in southwestern Oregon and northern California. Some of these nations include the Coos, Hupa, Karuk, Klamath, Modoc, Takelma, Shasta, Siuslaw, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, Yahooskin, and Yurok nations. In the future, we hope to expand the collection by continuing to add materials on these and other tribes whose homelands were in, or adjacent to, the Siskiyou-Cascade-Klamath bioregion.

Based at the University of Oklahoma's Western History Collection, the Native American Manuscript Collections contain over 200 documents relating to Native Americans in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and the southwestern United States.