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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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: 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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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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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 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: 1800-1880

A collection of monographs from the Travels in the West and Southwest and Plains & Rockies microfilm collections.