Research Guides
Access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, magazines, and archival materials from across Native North America.
Coverage: 1809-1971
Included in ProQuest's History Vault database, this resource consists of a large variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as well as selected first-hand accounts of interactions between the U.S. Army and American Indian tribes in the west.
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Coverage: 18th-20th centuries
Provides access to the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Includes a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, artwork, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources. Subjects include frontier life, Native American history and culture, vigilantes and outlaws, the gold rush, the growth of urban centers and railways, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands, and much more.
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This open access collection provides access to the digitized histories of civil rights activism by Black, Latine, Indigenous, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities. Materials are drawn from universities, public libraries, community archives, and historical societies and include photographs, unofficial letters, correspondence, demonstration plan outlines, meeting minutes, newsreels, interviews, and musical recordings.
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Provides access to materials that cover early encounters between the Indigenous People of North America and the rest of the world from 1534 to 1850. This collection focuses on present-day Canada and the United States with limited coverage of Mexico. Resources include letters, diaries, memoirs, and illustrations. The collection provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, enslaved peoples, missionaries, soldiers, Indigenous Peoples, and officials. Highlights include John James Audubon's Birds of America and George Catlin's early illustrations capturing the traditions and customs of various North American tribes.
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Coverage: 1959-present
Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Subject coverage includes culture, religion, independent press, and ethnic studies. The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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This open access database provides content covering important issues related to race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness in today's society. Resources include essays, journal articles, government agency reports, photographs, speeches, and other primary sources. A wide range of topics are covered, including affirmative action, food insecurity, environmental racism and environmental justice, the black lives matter movement, voting rights and voter suppression, police use of force, sports team branding changes, neighborhood gentrification, and much more.
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Coverage: 1650-1920
A digital collection of primary source documents covering the lives of immigrants and Indigenous Peoples in various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia. Topics covered include land and property, women's history, religion, the natural world, warfare, health and medicine, family, business and trade, agriculture, arts and entertainment, politics, and more. Resources include correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books, and pamphlets.
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An online repository of Oklahoma history maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society. This resource includes historic newspapers, publications, maps, photographs, and other documents. Includes access to the Oklahoma Daily (1916-2017) the official University of Oklahoma student newspaper, covering local and campus news. Also includes access to The Oklahoman's pre-1984 evening supplemental edition, The Oklahoma City Times.
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Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes access to the Black American Series and the Native American Series.
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Coverage: 1789-present
Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.
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Coverage: 16th-20th centuries
Four centuries of history, from early contact to the modern era, are featured in this resource. Coverage includes peoples of North and Central America and materials include manuscripts, illustrations, newspapers, books, photos and maps. This resource is also cross-searchable with the American West database.
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Coverage: 2017 - present
This comprehensive news archive is a collection of primary source documents related to Indigenous history, daily life, traumas, and triumphs.
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Coverage: 1828-2016
This database offers a diverse collection of print journalism from Indigenous Peoples of the US and Canada. Resources include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. This collection is also bi-lingual and features editions in Indigenous-languages, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo. Subjects covered include the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, language revitalization, environmentalism, tribal laws, public health and welfare, and rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.
This resource has been developed with the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.
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Coverage: 1665-1958
Indigenous Peoples of North America I provides access to diverse information sources to enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, traditions, innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples of the United States and Canada. Resources include manuscripts, books, newspapers, photographs, motion pictures, and artwork.
Indigenous Peoples of North America II: The Indian Rights Association 1882-1986 provides a record of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights. Resources include correspondence, pamphlets, draft legislation, administrative files, the papers of Indian Rights Association founder Herbert Welsh, photographs, manuscripts, and research notes.
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With nearly 3,900 titles and more than 2.3 million total pages dedicated to indigenous American life and law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. This collection also features rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen.
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North American Indian Thought and Culture is a database on Indigenous Peoples from all areas of North America. This collection presents the life stories and historical events of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples as told in their own words. Resources include autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Biographies include works on Quanah Parker, Dennis Banks, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Crowfoot, Peter Pitchlynn, Sacajawea, Black Elk, Standing Buffalo, and others.
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Provides full text plays from American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. More than half of the works are previously unpublished, and hard to find, representing tribes such as Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and others.
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Access over 40 digitized collections from OU Libraries Special Collections. Resources include images, correspondence, newspaper articles, rare books, and audio. Highlights include broadcasts from the Indians for Indians Radio Show, a 1598 edition of Chaucer's works from the Nichols Rare Book Collection, and images from the American School Collection.
Coverage: 1800-1880
A collection of monographs from the Travels in the West and Southwest and Plains & Rockies microfilm collections.
Provides access to an electronic library of resources made available to Oklahomans through a collaboration between the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Resources include images, state archive materials, Oklahoma legal documents, governor biographies, Oklahoma almanacs, and documents related to events in Oklahoma history, such as women's suffrage, the Osage Murders, and the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Coverage: 1500-1926
Sabin Americana contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Resources include books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, and military actions.
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Coverage: 1867-1970
Provides access to detailed maps of Oklahoma cities from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. View street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use and physical features, house and block numbers, pipelines, railroads, wells, and dumps. Special features include the ability to manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Dates vary by city.