Native Americans (also see United States tab)
Most microforms are in off-site storage. Use Sooner Xpress to have materials retrieved. This guide does not include journals or magazines; please check the Local Catalog to see library holdings of periodicals.
Once you receive the microforms you requested through Sooner Xpress, there are machines on the east side of the fourth floor (see map) that will allow you to read, scan, or print from the microform. See this link for more information.
Please note: for National Archives film, finding aids may be available within their catalog. (Search for a title, and look in its catalog record to see if a PDF file is attached. The file is usually labeled "View Important Publication Details" next to an Adobe PDF icon.)
Also see the database American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 (from Proquest's "History Vault"), which consists of a variety of collections from the U.S. National Archives, the Chicago History Museum, and select first-hand accounts, including some of the microform collections below.
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1885 Choctaw-Chickasaw Freedmen RollsCall Number: Microfilm 8697RA-63, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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1894 Cherokee Payment Rolls and Index (Starr Roll)Call Number: Microfilm 8617RA-38, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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1896 Census of Choctaw-Chickasaw FreedmenCall Number: Microfilm 8717RA-66, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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1902 Payment to Destitute Cherokees; and, 1909-1910 Payment to Intermarried WhitesCall Number: Microfilm 8747RA-80, record group 75.
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1903 Chickasaw Incompetent PayrollCall Number: Microfilm 8487RA-96, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75.
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1904 Chickasaw $40 Townsite Fund Payroll and IndexCall Number: Microfilm 9927RA-97, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75.
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1910 Choctaw Equalization Payroll and IndexCall Number: Microfilm 8547RA-89, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75.
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1911 Choctaw $50 Payment Roll and IndexCall Number: Microfilm 8507RA-90, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75.
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1916 Choctaw $300 Payment Roll and IndexCall Number: Microfilm 8517RA-93, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75.
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1917 Choctaw $100 Payment Roll and IndexCall Number: Microfilm 8727RA-94, record group 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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American Indian Correspondence the Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893Call Number: Microfilm 605 and guideA collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians ... from 1833 to 1893. The collection is deposited in the library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia.
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American Indian Oral History Collection. University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest ResearchCall Number: Microfilm 1073Reel [1] Navajo 1-72 -- reel [2] Navajo 73-163 -- reel [3] Navajo 164-246 -- reel [4] Navajo 247-315 -- reel [5] Navajo 316-376 -- reel [6] Navajo 377-406 -- reel [7] Acoma 110 thru Isleta 9 -- reel [8] Isleta 10 thru Laguna 129 -- reel [9] Laguna 130 thru San Juan 202 -- reel [10] San Juan 227 thru Taos 432 -- reel [11] Taos 433 thru Zuni 511.
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American Indian Periodicals from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1884-1981Call Number: Microfilm 1078Click link for titles in the collection. Includes community newspapers in native languages, mission and church newspapers and periodicals.
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American Indian Periodicals in the Princeton University LibraryCall Number: varies, click on title for call numbersClick link for titles in the collection.
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Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (Dawes Rolls)Call Number: Microfilm 777National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1301 | More information
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Applications from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Muskogee Area Office Relating to Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes under the Act of 1896Call Number: Online and Microfilm 770 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1650.
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Approved Roll of Osage Indians in OklahomaCall Number: Microfilm 1392Index to certified roll of members of the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma of less than one-half Indian blood -- Index to certified roll of members of the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma of one-half Indian blood or more -- Certified roll of members of the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma of less than one-half Indian blood -- Certified roll of members of the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma of one-half or more Indian blood.
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Association on American Indian Affairs Archives: General and Tribal Files, 1851-1983Call Number: Microfilm 696 and guideSeries title: Native America: A Primary Record. Series Two: The Association on American Indian Affairs Archives, 1851-1983, General and Tribal Files.
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Association on American Indian Affairs Archives: Publications, Programs, and Legal and Organizational Files, 1851-1983Call Number: E 77 .N385 2005 (Law Library)Series title: Native America, A Primary Record. Series 3: The Association on American Indian Affairs Archives, 1851-1983, Publications and Legal Files.
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Benjamin Lee Whorf PapersCall Number: Microfilm 776 and guideSer. 1. Correspondence -- Ser. 2. Writings on linguistics -- Ser. 3 Writings on science and religion.
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Beynon ManuscriptsCall Number: Microfilm 1060A collection of Tsimshian texts with interlinear translations and commentaries by William Beynon.
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Brief History of the Chickasaws in OklahomaCall Number: Microfilm 1379Thesis (M.A.)--George Peabody College for Teachers, 1932.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs Records Created by the Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1918Call Number: Microfilm 1059Microfilm copy of 68 volumes and 6.5 cubic feet of unbound records created by the Santa Fe Indian School between 1890 and 1918.
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Catalogue of Manuscripts, Cheyenne Bibliography. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American EthnologyCall Number: Microfilm 1194Donald J. Berthrong Collection. 1 reel. Selected materials from the Bureau of American ethnology, Bibliography, James Mooney Manuscripts, Ben Clark Manuscripts.
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Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi and Index to the RollCall Number: Online and Microfilm 1145National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 496.
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Cherokee Census, 1883Call Number: Microfilm 866 and 8877RA-29, record group 21, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Census, 1893Call Number: Microfilm 8897RA-54, RG75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Census of 1886Call Number: Microfilm 860Record group 75, 7RA-58, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Census of 1890Call Number: Microfilm 8867RA-60, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Census of 1890 Residents of the Cherokee NationCall Number: Microfilm 882National Archives Microfilm Number: 7RA-8
Roll 1. Schedule 1, part 1, Canadian district, Cooweescoowee District -- Roll 2. Schedule 1, part 2, Delaware District, Flint District -- Roll 3. Schedule 2, part 3, Going Snake District, Illinois District, Saline District -- Roll 4. Schedule 2, part 4, Sequoyah District, Tahlequah District -- Roll 5. Schedule 2, Schedule 3, Schedule 4, Schedule 5 -- Roll 6. Schedule 6. -
Cherokee Census of 1896Call Number: Microfilm 8497RA-19, record group 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Delaware Census Roll 1867Call Number: Microfilm 8787RA-73, RG-75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Cherokee Freedmen Rolls and Indexes, 1867-1897Call Number: Microfilm 8857RA-51, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Cherokee National Records (1858-1911)Call Number: Microfilm 1088 and guideFor more information see this Oklahoma Historical Society page.
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Cherokee Nation PapersCall Number: Microfilm 403Reproduction of the Cherokee Nation papers held by the University of Oklahoma Libraries' Western History Collections. The papers contain the official documents and records of the former Cherokee Nation, as well as the personal papers of the families of James Madison Bell, Stand Watie, John Rollin Ridge, and Elias C. Boudinot. The papers date from 1830-1907. This collection is in Bizzell Memorial Library, outside the former Government Documents Collection, 4th Floor, East.
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Cherokee Payment Roll, Lipe Roll, 1880Call Number: Microfilm 8577RA-33, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Payment Roll of 1883Call Number: Microfilm 8687RA-57, record group 75, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cherokee Payment Roll of 1890Call Number: Microfilm 8887RA-59, record group 75, records of the commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency Letterpress BooksCall Number: Microfilm 1260Reels 18, 31-33.
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Chickasaw Rolls: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Records of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized TribesCall Number: Microfilm 991Record group 75, 7RA-21.
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Claims for Georgia Militia Campaigns Against Indians on the Frontier, 1792-1827Call Number: Microfilm 785National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1745.
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Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate GovernmentCall Number: Microfilm 1112 and pamphletNote: Library has reels 77-91 (Reels related to members of Five Tribes of Indian Territory who served).
National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 258.
See Internet Archive and search for “Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government” to see digital versions of this microfilm.
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Constitutions and Laws of the American IndiansCall Number: Microfilm 979Contains 157 printed constitutions, statutes, session acts and resolutions passed by Indian tribes and nations. The collection is based on A Bibliography of the Constitution and Laws of the American Indians, by Lester Hargrett.
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Contemporary Newspapers of the North American IndianCall Number: Microfilm 1093 and guideCovers nearly 50 newspapers published between 1924-1973.
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Correspondence, Field Notes, and the Census Roll of All Members or Descendants of Members Who Were on the Roll of the Ottawa and the Chippewa tribes of Michigan in 1870, and Living on March 4, 1907 (Durant Roll)Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1070See first four items in link (Field Notes and Durant Roll)
Roll 1. Durant Roll -- Roll 2. Field notes, pages 1-25 -- Roll 3. Field notes, pages 26-57 -- Roll 4. Field notes, pages 58-65, and correspondence. Part of the Special Agent Files, 1907-1948, in the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group (RG)75. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 2039. -
Correspondence of the Eastern Division Pertaining to Cherokee Removal, April-December 1838Call Number: Microfilm 1333The two rolls of this microfilm publication reproduce correspondence of the Eastern Division relating to the removal of the Cherokees from the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama to present-day eastern Oklahoma. Most of the correspondence was received or sent by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, commanding officer of the Eastern Division, and his immediate staff between April and December 1838. National Archives microfilm publications ; microcopy no. M1475
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Council Meetings of the Major American Indian Tribes, 1907-1971Call Number: Microfilm 1111 and guide
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Decisions of the Indian Claims Commission; Findings, Opinions, Orders, and Final Awards of the United States Indian Claims Commission, 1948 et seqCall Number: Microfiche 287 and indexLibrary has fiche 225-321.
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Diary of John Gregory BourkeCall Number: Microfilm 808Original at United States Military Academy Library, West Point, New York.
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Documents Relating to the Negotiations of Ratified and Unratified Treaties with Various Tribes of Indians, 1801-69Call Number: Microfilm 910 and guideNational Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 494.
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Dunn Rolls of 1867 & 1869. Citizens and Freedmen of the Creek NationCall Number: Microfilm 1376Microfilm publication 7RA5
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Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1909Call Number: Microfilm 970National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1104.
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Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 (Also known as "Dawes Rolls.")Call Number: Microfilm 784National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1186 | More information
reel 1. Index to the final rolls and final rolls -- reel 2-38. Cherokee (all reels arranged by blood, newborn by blood, minor by blood, freedmen, freedmen newborn, and freedmen minor, includes delaware Indians) -- reel 39-66. Choctaw -- reel 67-76. Chickasaw -- reel 77-91. Creek -- reel 92-93. Seminole. -
Expert Testimony Before the Indian Claims CommissionCall Number: Microfiche 288 and indexSee also Indian Claims Insight
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Expert Testimony Before the Indian Claims Commission: The Written Reports: Supplement #1, 1973-1975Call Number: Microfiche 284 and indexSee also Indian Claims Insight
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Expert Testimony Before the Indian Claims Commission: The Written Reports: Supplement #2, 1975-1978Call Number: Microfiche 285 and indexSee also Indian Claims Insight
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FBI File on the Osage Indian MurdersCall Number: Microfilm 823 and guide
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FBI Files on the American Indian Movement and Wounded KneeCall Number: Microfilm 843 and guide
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Fred Dustin Collection and Other Small Collections; Records of the War Department Office of the Quartermaster GeneralCall Number: Microfilm 1303From the Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association. Rolls 9-14: Dustin Collection. Primarily correspondence between researchers studying the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Survivors and other interested persons. Roll 17: Records of the War Department Office of the Quartermaster General. Contains items from the Cemeterial File, Reservation File, General Information Index on Little Big Horn, Medical, Special Reports, Scientific and Historical File, Letters and telegrams received and Indian interviews.
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Gilbert L. Wilson Diaries, Notebooks, and Reports, Undated and 1905-1929Call Number: Microfilm 284
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Headquarters Records, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1830-1857: Letters Sent, Jan. 5, 1842-Sept. 9, 1857Call Number: Online and Microfilm 966The records consist of letters sent and received, orders and memorandum orders issued, orders received, and proceedings of the post council of administration. These constitute all of the extant post headquarters records for the 1830-57 period except for guard reports, 1840-57, and a register of accounts, 1846-57. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1466.
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Index to 1896 Cherokee Roll Not Including FreedmenCall Number: Microfilm 8777RA-71, RG 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Index to Cherokee Rejected and Doubtful Dawes Enrollment CardsCall Number: Microfilm 8627RA-24, record group 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.
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Index to Choctaw 'R' Cards (e.50)Call Number: Microfilm 8797RA-147, RG-75, records of the Five Tribes agency. Note: partially unreadable.
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Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Cherokee Disturbances and Removal in Organizations from the State of North CarolinaCall Number: Microfilm 1027 and pamphletOn the single roll of this microfilm publication is reproduced an alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer soldiers belonging to units from the state of North Carolina who served during the Cherokee disturbances and removal. In these records this operation is referred to as the Cherokee War. The index contains the names of North Carolina soldiers to which references were found in the records used in compiling the service records. The cards give the name of the soldier, his rank, and the unit in which he served. There are cross-reference cards for soldiers' names that appeared in the records under more than one spelling. National Archives Microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 256
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Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Cherokee Removal in Organizations from the State of AlabamaCall Number: Microfilm 1029 and pamphletOn the roll of this microfilm is reproduced an alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer soldiers belonging to units from the State of Alabama who served during the Cherokee Removal. This index contains most of the names of the Alabama soldiers to which references were found in the records used in compiling service records. The cards give the name of the soldier, his rank, and the unit which he served. There are cross-reference cards for soldiers' names that appeared in the records under more than one spelling. National Archives microfilm publications ; microcopy no. 243
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Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Creek War in Organizations from the State of AlabamaCall Number: Microfilm 1031 and pamphletOn the two rolls of this microfilm is reproduced an alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer soldiers of the Creek War belonging to units from the State of Alabama. The index contains most of the names of the Alabama soldiers to which references were found in the records used in compiling the service records. The cards give the name of the soldier, his rank, and the unit in which he served. There are cross-reference cards for soldiers' names that appeared in the records under more than one spelling. National Archives microfilm publications ; Microcopy no. M244
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Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Florida War in Organizations from the State of AlabamaCall Number: Microfilm 1028 and pamphletOn the roll of this microfilm publication is reproduced an alphabetical card index to the compiled service records of volunteer soldiers of the Florida War belonging to units from the State of Alabama. The index contains most of the names of the soldier, his rank, and the unit in which he served. There are cross-reference cards for soldiers' names that appeared in the records under more than one spelling. National Archives Microfilm Publications. M ; microcopy no. 245.
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Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 (U.S. National Archives)Call Number: Microfilm 771 and pamphletFor more information. | Guide online
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Indian Committee Records: Letters and Misc.Call Number: Microfilm 1140This 12 reel series contains the Indian Committee Records of the Society of Friends (Missionaries). It covers the time period from 1757 to 1974.
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Indian Documents. United States. Department of the InteriorCall Number: Microfilm 803 and guideAccompanied by guide, entitled: Indian related material, senate and house documents, reports, correspondence, etc.
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Indian Lands in New MexicoCall Number: Microfilm 1024Types of farming and ranching areas in New Mexico -- Economic, social, and educational survey of Rio Arriba and Taos counties -- Development of the partido system in the New Mexico sheep industry -- Farm housing conditions in New Mexico -- Tenancy in New Mexico -- Tax delinquency on rural real estate in New Mexico -- Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest.
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Indian Oral History Collection. Part 1Call Number: Microfilm 1126A collection of typed transcripts of taped interviews with Plains Indians and those non-Indians working actively with them; housed in the Library of the University of South Dakota, Vermillion. Library has reels 1-2.
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Indian Pioneer Papers [1860-1935]Call Number: Online and Microfiche 277 and guide
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Indian Rights Association PapersCall Number: Microfilm 1082 and guideReels 1-10, Outgoing letterbooks, 1886-1901. Reel 11, early letters, 1885-1886. Reels 12-26, incoming correspondence, 1887-1901.
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Indian Rights Association Papers, 1864-1973Call Number: Microfilm 802 and guide
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Indian Wars Index to Pension Files, 1892-1926Call Number: Microfilm 1136 and guideNational Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 318
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Indian Wars of the West and Frontier Army Life, 1862-1898. Official Histories and Personal NarrativesCall Number: OnlineInterior Department Appointment Papers: State of California 1849-1907Call Number: Microfilm 818National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 732Interior Department Territorial Papers, Arizona, 1868-1913Call Number: Microfilm 838 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 429
Search for M429 for online guideInterior Department Territorial Papers, Colorado, 1861-1888Call Number: Microfilm 839 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 431.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Dakota, 1863-1889Call Number: Microfilm 834 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 310.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Idaho, 1864-1890Call Number: Microfilm 833 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 191.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Montana, 1867-1889Call Number: Microfilm 1006 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 192.Interior Department Territorial Papers, New Mexico, 1851-1914Call Number: Microfilm 835 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 364.
Search for M364 for online guide.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Oklahoma, 1889-1912Call Number: Microfilm 996 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 828
Guide onlineInterior Department Territorial Papers, Utah, 1850-1902Call Number: Microfilm 837 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 428.
Search for M428 for online guide.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Washington, 1854-1902Call Number: Microfilm 846 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 189.
Executive proceedings, March 28, 1877-December 27, 1884; and official correspondence, March 4-June 19, 1878 -- Executive proceedings, January 2, 1885-June 29, 1889 -- Letters received, Aug 15, 1854-October 4, 1890 -- Letters received, January 28, 1867-August 9, 1902.Interior Department Territorial Papers, Wyoming, 1870-1890Call Number: Microfilm 995 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 204.
Guide onlineIroquois Indians a Documentary History of the Diplomacy of the Six Nations and Their LeagueCall Number: Microfilm 768 and guidePublished for the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at Newberry Library.Isaac McCoy Papers, 1808-1874: In the Holdings of the Kansas State Historical SocietyCall Number: Microfilm 1129 and guideJoseph S. Murrow and Bacone College CollectionCall Number: Microfilm 1395See link for reel contents.
See also online collection.Jotham Meeker Papers, 1825-1864, in the Holdings of the Kansas State Historical SocietyCall Number: Microfilm 809 and guideJournals and Daybooks of John P. Kingsbury, Choctaw Nation, 1853-1862Call Number: Microfilm 827From the Oklahoma Historical Society.Kiowa Agency Letterpress BooksCall Number: Microfilm 1256From the Oklahoma Historical Society. Library has reels 19-20.Laws of the Cherokee Nation Passed at Tah-le-quah, Cherokee Nation, 1840, '41, '42, & '43Call Number: Microfilm 829Letter Book of the Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. United States. Bureau of Indian AffairsCall Number: Microfilm 916 and pamphletReproduction of one volume of handwritten copies of letters sent and received by the agent of the Arkansas Trading House for the entire period of operations from 1805 to 1810. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 142.Letter Book of the Creek Trading House, 1795-1816. Creek Nation. Treaties, etc. United States, 1866 June 14Call Number: Microfilm 969 and pamphlet1. Instructions to Edward Price, first authorized person to open a trading house at Colerain on St. Mary's Island. 2. Instructions to Captain William Eaton, stationed with U.S. troops at Colerain. 3. Records of the Creek Trading House--letters sent and received. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 4.Letterbook of the Natchitoches-Sulphur Fork Factory, 1809-1821. United States. Bureau of Indian AffairsCall Number: Microfilm 911Contains copies of letters sent from June 21, 1809 to December 31, 1821 to the Superintendent of Indian Trade in Washington, D.C., to military officers, merchants and other persons. National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 1029.Letters of Judge Isaac C. Parker and Records Relating to Judge Parker, 1875-96Call Number: Microfilm 391National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 2015. The records described in this microfilm publication are from two series of Department of Justice records. They include many letters, telegrams, and notes exchanged between Judge Parker and the DOJ during his service on the Federal bench. Also incorporated are a few documents concerning Parker that come from other government officials. Unless otherwise indicated, the communications in this publication are from Parker to the Department of Justice. Parker's letters reflect his work as judge in a jurisdiction that comprised not only the Western District of Arkansas, but also the Indian Territory at a time when that portion of Oklahoma was a haven for many of the country's most desperate outlaws.Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, 1794-1796Call Number: Online and Microfilm 923 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 74.Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs 1824-81Call Number: Online and Microfilm 890 (Bizzell) and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 234.
The microfilm collection is in Bizzell Memorial Library, outside the former Government Documents Collection, 4th Floor, East.Letters Received by the Office of the Secretary of War Relating to Indian Affairs, 1800-1823Call Number: Online and Microfilm 917National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 271Letters Received by the Superintendent of Indian Trade, 1806-1824Call Number: Online and Microfilm 960National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 58.Letters Sent, October 31, 1807 - April 18, 1823. United States. Superintendent of Indian TradeCall Number: Online and Microfilm 968 and guideNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 16.Letters Sent, Registers of Letters Received, and Letters Received by Headquarters, Troops in Florida, and Headquarters, Department of Florida, 1850-1858Call Number: Microfilm 1087 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1084.Letters Sent by the Indian Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849-1903Call Number: Microfilm 1051 and pamphletThe 127 rolls of this microfilm publication reproduce handwritten transcripts of communications sent by
the Indian Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior during the period March 10, 1849-July
24, 1903, and accompanying indexes for the years 1849-1897. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 606.Letters Sent to the Office of Indian Affairs by the Agents or Superintendents at the Pine Ridge Agency, 1875-1914Call Number: Microfilm 805National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1282.Listening to IndiansCall Number: Microfiche 290Transcripts of 144 interviews with Indians conducted by S.I. Myers of the Dept. of History, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley as part of the New York Times Oral History Program.List of Rejected Claiments, 1878-1880 ; List of Persons Admitted to Citizenship ; Cherokee Citizenship Commission Docket Books, 1880-1884, 1887-1889Call Number: Microfiche 853Record group 75, 7RA25, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes, records relating to Cherokee citizenship.Lists of Delaware, Shawnee, and North Carolina Cherokees, 1867-1881Call Number: Microfilm 8807RA-74, RG-75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.Major James McLaughlin Papers: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, 1855-1937Call Number: Microfilm 258 and guideMicrofilm Collection of Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology (U. of Chicago)Call Number: Microfilm Serial 817 and guideSeries has three titles: (1) Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology (No. 1-51; 1945-1956) (2) Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on American Indian Cultural Anthropology (No. 52-91; 1957- 1971) (3) Microfilm Collection of Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology (No. 92/94- 1971-).
Guide onlineMiscellaneous Letters Sent by the Agents or Superintendents at the Pine Ridge Indian Agency, 1876-1914Call Number: Microfilm 804National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1229.Miscellaneous Letters Sent by the Pueblo Indian Agency, 1874-1891Call Number: Microfilm 1076 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 941.
Search for M941 for online guide.Mississippi Choctaw Townsite Payroll and Index, 1908Call Number: Microfilm 8837RA-107, record group 75Moravian Mission Records among the North American Indians, from the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, PennsylvaniaCall Number: Microfilm 806 (Indexes: Microfilm 894)Native Americans and the New Deal the Office Files of John Collier, 1933-1945Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1053 and guideOld Settler Cherokee Census Roll, 1895, and Index to Payment Roll, 1896Call Number: Microfilm 961National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 985.Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus Indian Language Collection. Alaska Native LanguagesCall Number: Microfilm 895 and guideReproduces 27,263 pages of Alaskan native language materials, consisting mostly of manuscripts and some printed material annotated by a Jesuit language expert, arranged into the following language groups: Central Yupik and Inupiag; Ingalik and Koyukon.Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus Indian Language Collection the Pacific Northwest TribesCall Number: Microfilm 896 and guideReproduces 27,263 pages of Alaskan native language materials, consisting mostly of manuscripts and some printed material annotated by a Jesuit language expert, arranged into the following language groups: Central Yupik and Inupiag; Ingalik and Koyukon.Papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D. Including the Papers of Maria Keller Montezuma Moore and the Papers of Joseph W. LatimerCall Number: Microfilm 807 (Guides: Microfilm 892 and Microfilm 893)Papers of Henry Hastings Sibley Fur Trader, Politician, and GeneralCall Number: Microfilm 1366 and guidePapers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957Call Number: Microfilm 175 and guidev. 1. Native American history, language, and culture of Alaska/Northwest Coast (30 reels) -- v. 2. Native American history, language, and culture of Northern and Central California (101 reels) -- v. 3. Native American history, language, and culture of Southern California/Basin (182 reels) -- v. 4. Native American history, language, and culture of the Southwest (58 reels) -- v. 5. Native American history, language, and culture of the Plains (17 reels) -- v. 6. Native American history, language, and culture of the Northeast/Southeast (18 reels) -- v. 7. Native American history, language, and culture of Mexico/Central America/South America (36 reels) -- v. 8. Notes and writings on special linguistic studies (35 reels) -- v. 9. Correspondence (17 reels).Papers of Panton, Leslie and Co.Call Number: Microfilm 800 and guidePapers of Philip Henry Sheridan [Partial]Call Number: Microfilm 1163Library owns reels 2-15; reels 17-22. reels 1-16. General correspondence, 1853-1888 -- reel 17. Autograph letters, 1865-1887 -- reels 18-42. Letterbooks, 1871-1888Papers of the Society of American IndiansCall Number: Microfilm 842 and guideThese papers include roughly 5,600 items of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, legal documents, news clippings and personal jottings.Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry Concerning the Conduct of Major Marcus Reno at the Battle of the Little Big Horn River on June 25 & 26, 1876Call Number: Microfilm 918National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 592. Reel 1. Nov. 25, 1878-Jan. 31, 1879.--Reel 2. Feb. 1-11, 1879. Also see Library of Congress exhibitRatified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869Call Number: Online and Microfilm 263 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 668.Records Created by the Pueblo and the Pueblo and Jicarilla Indian Agencies, 1874-1900Call Number: Microfilm 1058 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1304.Records of Fort Hays, Kansas (U.S. Army Post), 1866-89Call Number: Microfilm 988National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 713.
Fort Hays, KS, was established on October 18, 1865, to protect the employees of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company from Indian attacks. First called Fort Fletcher, the War Department renamed the installation Fort Hays on November 17, 1866, in honor of Brig. Gen. Alexander Hays. Fort Hays was abandoned on November 8, 1889. Letters sent by post commander: 1 Nov. 28, 1866-Dec. 27, 1873; 2 Jan. 3, 1874-Feb. 18, 1883; 3 Feb. 20, 1883-Dec. 13, 1886; 4 Dec. 14, 1886-Nov. 4, 1869; Letters received at post headquarters: 5 Jan. 1867-Sept. 1868; 6 Oct. 1868-May 1870; 7 June 1870-Aug. 1871; 8 Sept. 1871-Dec. 1872; 9 Jan. 1873-Dec. 1874; 10 Jan. 1875-June 1876; 11 July 1876-Sept. 1878; 12 Oct. 1878-Oct. 1880Records of the Arizona Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1863-1873Call Number: Microfilm 927 and pamphletreel 1. Registers of letters received, 1868-72 -- reel 1-7. Letters received, 1863-73 -- reel 8. Letterbook of Charles D. Poston, 1863-64. Letters sent, 1865-73. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 734.Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Procedural Issuances, Orders and Circulars, 1854-1955Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1043 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1121.Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Selected Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relating to the Enrollment of Indians on the Flathead Reservation, 1903-08Call Number: Online and Microfilm 821National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1350.
This microfilm publication reproduces records relating to Special Agent Thomas Downs’s enrollment of the Indians at the Flathead Reservation, 1903-08. The records have been arranged in three parts: census rolls, administrative documents, and documents relating to contested applications. On January 12, 1905, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs instructed Special Agent Thomas Downs to investigate questionable applications to the 1903 roll and to compile a new roll of the members of the Flathead, Kutenai, Pend d’Oreille, Kalispel, and Spokane tribes who lived on the Flathead Reservation. Most of the records reproduced in the publication were created during Downs’s investigation, but the 1903 McNichols roll and the documents submitted with the suspended applications are also included along with supplements to the Downs roll.Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior. Selected Documents Relating to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, 1859-1939Call Number: Microfilm 1186Donald J. Berthrong Collection. 2 reelsRecords of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Central Classified Files, 1907-1939Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1023 and guideFor online collections, click title.
Microfilm: Library has series B. Indian customs and social relations (23 reels) -- series C. Indian health and medical affairs. pt. 1.Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Selected Documents from Among the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relating to the Cheyenne and Arapaho IndiansCall Number: Microfilm 1188Donald J. Berthrong Collection, 4 reelsRecords of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813-1878Call Number: Online and Microfilm 937 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microfilm no. 856.
On this series of microcopy are reproduced the records of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1878, and some of its predecessors, the St. Louis Superintendency, 1823-1850. Also included are a few of the records principally related to the Osage Indians dated to as early as 1813.Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835Call Number: Microfilm 972 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 208.
Search M208 for online guide.Records of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Citizenship CourtCall Number: Microfilm 8677RA-27, record group 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.Records of the Choctaw Trading House under the Office of Indian Trade, 1803-1824Call Number: Online and Microfilm 822National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 500.Records of the Creek Factory of the Office of Indian Trade of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1795-1821Call Number: Microfilm 1110National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1334. The factory, actually a trading house, for the Creek Indians was one of the two original factories established in November, 1795. It was not usually called the Creek factory. Sometimes it was referred to as the Georgia factory, but it was better known by the names of its successive locations: Colerian on St. Mary's River, 1795-97; Fort Wilkinson, 1797-1806; Ocmulgee Old Fields, 1806-09; Fort Hawkins, 1809-16; and Fort Mitchell, 1816-20.Records of the Dakota Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1861-1870 and 1877-1878Call Number: Online and Microfilm 290National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1016.Records of the Idaho Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1863-1870Call Number: Microfilm 928 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 832.Records of the Michigan Superintendency of Indian Affairs [1814-51]Call Number: Microfilm 926 and guideNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1.
Search for M1 for online guide.Records of the Minnesota Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1856Call Number: Microfilm 929 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 842.Records of the Montana Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1867-1873Call Number: Microfilm 932 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 833. roll 1. Letters received from the Commissioner, 1867-73, the Blackfeet Agency, 1867-73, and the Crow Agency, 1869-73 -- roll 2. Letters received from the Flathead Agency, 1869-73, the Milk River Agency, 1869-73, the Lemhi Agency, 1873, and miscellaneous sources, 1867-73 -- roll 3. Letters sent: unbound pages, 1867-73, bound volume 1869-70, and miscellaneous records, 1867-73.Records of the Nevada Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1869-70Call Number: Microfilm 930 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 837. Letters received, sent, and miscellaneous records (1869-1870). Account book of disbursements and receipts (1869-1870).Records of the New Mexico Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-80Call Number: Microfilm 936National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 21.
Search for T21 for online guide.Records of the Northern Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1851-1876Call Number: Microfilm 1052National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1166.Records of the Office of Indian Affairs. Registers of Letters Received, 1824-1880Call Number: Microfilm 1037 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 18. This series contains registered communications received by the Office of Indian Affairs, between 1824, when it was a bureau within the War Department and 1880.
Search for M18 for online guide.Records of the Office of Indian Affairs Letters Sent. United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.Call Number: Online and Microfilm 953 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 21. The contents of this series are transcripts of communications sent by the Office of Indian Affairs. The letters include instructions to superintendents, agents and other field officials of the Office, reports to the Secretary of War, acknowledgment of and replies to incoming letters, notices of appointment, etc.Records of the Office of the Secretary of War, Letters sent, Indian Affairs, [1800-1824]Call Number: Online and Microfilm 902National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 15. This series contains letterbooks holding transcripts of outgoing communications written during the period when the War Department was entrusted with Indian relations.Records of the Oregon Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1848-1873Call Number: Online and Microfilm 935 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 2.Records of the Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1832-70Call Number: Microfilm 938 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 640. The contents of this series are the records of the Southern Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1851-1870, and of its predecessor, the Western Superintendency, 1834-1851. There are also a few records of the Choctaw Agency, West.
Search for M640 for online guide.Records of the States of the United States of America. A Microfilm Compilation. Okla. M.2a A.1aCall Number: Microfilm 788Records of American Indian nations. Tribe government records. Cherokee Nation. Legislative records. Journals, minutes, and proceedings. Journals of the upper house. reel 1. Book of the National Council, Oct. 10, 1865-Nov. 26, 1869. Journals of the Senate, Nov. 4, 1867-Dec. 11, 1880 -- reel 2. Journals of the Senate, Nov. 7, 1881-Jan. 2, 1892 -- reel 3. Journals of the Senate, Nov. 7, 1892-Sept. 29, 1905.Records of the States of the United States of America. A Microfilm Compilation. Okla. M.2a A.1bCall Number: Microfilm 789Records of American Indian nations. Tribe government records. Cherokee Nation. Legislative records. Journals, minutes, and proceedings. Journals of the lower house. Contents: reel 1. Dec. 1, 1869-Dec. 8, 1888 -- reel 2. Nov. 4, 1889-Dec. 6, 1902.Records of the States of the United States of America. A Microfilm Compilation. Okla. M.2a D.1Call Number: Microfilm 790Records of American Indian nations. Tribe government records. Cherokee Nation. Collected public documents.Records of the States of the United States of America. A Microfilm Compilation. Okla. M.2a D.2Call Number: Microfilm 791Records of American Indian nations. Tribe government records. Cherokee Nation. Reports and papers of permanent agencies.Records of the U.S. Court of Claims, Indian Depredation Case no. 1564Call Number: Microfilm 1377Records from a court case in 1890 regarding Richard F. Blinn's claims from a Cheyenne Indian raid in Kansas in 1868.Records of the United States Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, Missouri (William Clark Papers)Call Number: Microfilm 1130The materials pertain primarily to legislation of the activities of Indians in the area designated as Indian Territory. Survey results, treaties, expenditures, etc. are included within this series. Volumes 1-33: The Kansas Historical Society.
For more information and a link to the online version (via the Kansas Memory project) .Records of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1870Call Number: Online and Microfilm 931 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 834. reel 1. Letters received from the Commissioner (1859-70). Miscellaneous sources (1858-70). Letters sent (1857-67) -- reel 2. Miscellaneous records (1853-70).Records of the Washington Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-74Call Number: Online and Microfilm 941 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 5.Records of the Wisconsin Superintendency of Indian affairs, 1836-1848, and the Green Bay Subagency, 1850Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1020National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 951.Records Relating to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee, by Guion Miller, 1908-1910.Call Number: Online and Microfilm 769 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 685.Records Relating to the Investigation of the Fort Philip Kearney (or Fetterman) Massacre, 1866-1867Call Number: Online and Microfilm 920 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 740.Records Relating to the Trial of Medicine Bottle and Little Six, [ca. 1862]-1865Call Number: Microfilm 1396Proceedings, with related letters, depositions, charges, specifications, and orders, of a military commission that met at Fort Snelling (Minn.) in November-December, 1864, to try Dakota Indian leaders Little Six (Shakopee) and Medicine Bottle for the murder of several whites during the 1862 Dakota Conflict. The two men were executed in November 1865.Report Books of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1838-1885Call Number: Online and Microfilm 924 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 348. The report books microfilmed in this series contain manuscript copies of communications sent by the Office of Indian Affairs to the members of the President's cabinet having supervisory responsibility for Indian Affairs.Reports and Correspondence Relating to the Army Investigations of the Battle at Wounded Knee and to the Sioux Campaign of 1890-1891Call Number: Microfilm 1040National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 983.
Search for M983 for online guide.Reports of Inspection of the Field Jurisdictions of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1873-1900Call Number: Microfilm 28160 reels. National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1070.
Guide onlineReports of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes [1893/94- 1919/20]Call Number: Microfilm 1338 and guideGuide online. Some titles are also available through Congressional Publications database.Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916Call Number: Microfilm 606 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 617. Library does not own entire set. Click on title for catalog record and holdings. Most of these records include monthly post returns which reported general information about a military post as well as a record of events. Also included are morning reports, field returns, rosters of officers, and related papers. Also has information on history of various posts, including establishment and abandonment, with some information on wars and skirmishes with Indians.
Guide onlineRobert S. Stevens Collection (1824-1893) : [containing letters and telegrams], 1856-1875Call Number: Microfilm 1282 and pamphletRoll 1 (MS 2890). Letters, 1860 May-1862 Jan. -- roll 2 (MS 2891). Letters, 1862 Feb.-1873 Jan. -- roll 3 (MS 2892). Letters, 1873 Feb.-1875 June.Typescripts of papers relating to his supervising the construction of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (M-K-T) Railway through Kansas in the 1870s. The papers give valuable insights into pre-Civil War Kansas but are especially valuable concerning the origins and construction of the M-K-T Railway and related facilities such as the towns of Parsons, Kan., & Denison, Tex. There is also information on his work at the Sac & Fox Indian Agency, Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kan., and the Atlantic & Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. Correspondents include George Denison and Levi Parsons.
Guide onlineRolls of the Delaware Tribe and Shawnee TribeCall Number: Microfilm 859Record group 75, 7RA-26, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, records of the Commissioner to the Five Tribes.Rolls of the Eastern Cherokee, 1848-1852Call Number: Microfilm 1298Contains the names of Cherokee Indians who remained East of the Mississippi River after the majority of the tribe moved to the West under the terms of the Treaty of New Echota. Microfilm publication 7RA6.Rupert Costo Archive of the American Indian Filmed from the Holdings of the Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian in the Department of Special Collections at the University of California at RiversideCall Number: Microfilm 793 and guideSeries Title: Native America: A Primary Record. Series One.
Guide onlineSac and Fox Agency Letterpress BooksCall Number: Microfilm 1258Oklahoma Historical Society. Library has reels 11-14.Schedules of a Special Census of Indians, 1880Call Number: Online and Microfilm 964National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1791. The five rolls contain reproduced schedules of the special census of Indians enumerated in 1880. Section 8 of the census act of March 3, 1879 (20 stat. 475), authorized the superintendent of the census to “employ special agents or other means to make an enumeration of all Indians not taxed, within the jurisdiction of the United States, with such information as to their condition as may be obtainable.” A special enumeration therefore was taken of Indians living near military reservations.
Roll 1. Tulalip; Port Madison. -- Roll 2. Swinhomish; Muckleshoot; Lummi; Indians not on a reservation. -- Roll 3. Yakama. -- Roll 4. Standing Rock. -- Roll 5. Round Valley.Selected Classes of Letters Received by the Indian Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849-1880Call Number: Microfilm 1071National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 825. Reel 1-2. Executive Office, May 25, 1852-Dec. 4, 1880 -- Reel 3. State Department, Dec. 8, 1857-Nov. 10, 1880 -- Reel 4-5. Treasury Department, Sept. 23, 1850-Dec. 16, 1880 -- Reel 6-11. War Department, May 3, 1849-Dec. 20, 1880 -- Reel 12-13. Attorney General, Aug. 30, 1852-Dec.27, 1880 -- Reel 14. Commissioner of the General Land Office, Sept. 10, 1862-Dec. 30, 1880 -- Reel 15. Board of Indian Commissioners, Dec. 17, 1873-June 4, 1880 -- Reel 16-17. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Jan. 8, 1869-Dec. 14, 1877 -- Reel 18-32. Miscellaneous, Mar. 7, 1849-May 8, 1880Sioux War Trial Transcripts, 1862-1863Call Number: Microfilm 1195The Sioux War trial transcripts contain records of the United States Senate hearings regarding the Dakota Conflict of 1862. The collection includes original transcripts and a message from Abraham Lincoln dated 11 December 1862. The first reel contains Lincoln's message and transcripts for trails 1 through 127. The second reel includes cases 128 through 295. The third reel provides the transcripts for cases 296 through 392. Furthermore, this reel contains the names and information regarding penalties or acquittals for 326 American Indians imprisoned in Mankato.
More informationSpecial Files of Headquarters, Division of the Missouri, Relating to Military Operations and Administration, 1863-1885Call Number: Microfilm 1101 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1495. The 16 rolls of this microfilm publication reproduce 35 "special files," 1863-85, created by the Military Division of the Missouri. The files relate largely to Indian engagements and campaigns in the Northern and Southern Plains, Colorado, and New Mexico; military expeditions and surveys; civil problems involving Indians and settlers in the Indian Territory; border disturbances and problems along the Rio Grande in Texas; military reservations and posts; the employment of Indian scouts; and other administrative matters affecting the division and its departments.Special Files of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1807-1904Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1034 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 574. These files consist of correspondence, reports, accounts, affidavits, and other records that were brought together for easier reference. The records relate principally to claims and investigations but include some other subjects.Spiro Studies First part of the Second Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology, Spiro Focus ResearchCall Number: Microfilm 830v. 1. Description of the mound group -- v. 2. The graves and their contents. "Cooperating institutions: Stovall Museum of Science and History, University of Oklahoma, The University of Oklahoma Research Institute."Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), Papers, 1841-88Call Number: Microfilm 681Archaeologist, diplomat, and businessman. Correspondence, business records, MSS., a bibliography of Squier's writings (1876), and other papers relating to his diplomatic career, particularly in Honduras, and his interest in archeology and ethnology. Includes material concerning the Honduras Legation at Washington, D. C.; Squier's service as Honduran consul general; the Honduras Interoceanic Railway, ltd.; his diplomatic posts as charge d'affairs to Central America and U. S. Commissioner to Peru; the American Ethnological Society; the New York Anthropological Society; together with MSS. and drafts of articles, chapters from a abook on Nicaragua, and his book, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848).State Department Territorial Papers, Arizona, 1864-72Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1015 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 342. On the single roll of this microfilm publication is reproduced that part of a bound volume of records of the Department of State relating to the administration of affairs in Arizona Territory, 1864-72. The records consist mainly of communications received by the Secretary of State from the Governor and the Secretary of the Territory, April 4, 1864 - February 13, 1872.State Department Territorial Papers, Colorado SeriesCall Number: Online and Microfilm 1008 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 3. One reel consisting of two volumes: v. 1. Incoming letters and their enclosures, proclamations, petitions, and memorials, Dec. 28, 1859-April 22, 1874.--v. 2. Transcripts of the executive proceedings of Governor Gilpin and printed documents, July 8-November 18, 1861.State Department Territorial Papers, Dakota, 1861-73Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1017 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 309. On the single roll of this microfilm publication is reproduced that part of a bound volume of records of the Department of State relating to the administration of affairs in Dakota Territory, 1861-73. The records consist mainly of communications received by the Secretary of State from the Governor and the Secretary of the Territory, March 28, 1861 - January 7, 1873.State Department Territorial Papers, Florida Series, 1777-1824Call Number: Online and Microfilm 993National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 116.These records include correspondence, reports, copies of journals of proceedings of legislative assemblies, and other records relating to territorial administration.State Department Territorial Papers, Idaho, 1863-1872Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1014 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 445. On the single roll of this microfilm publication are reproduced two volumes of records of the Department of State relating to the administration of affairs in Idaho Territory. The records consist mainly of communications received by the Secretary of State from the Governor and the Secretary of the Territory, July 11, 1863 - December 1, 1872. There are also some letters from the Departments of the Interior, Justice, and War.State Department Territorial Papers, Kansas, 1854-61Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1013 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 218.
reel 1. Official correspondence, May 30, 1854-April 30, 1861 -- reel 2. Executive minutes, June 29-December 26,1854, and September 9, 1856-January 13, 1859.State Department Territorial Papers, Missouri, 1812-1820Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1021National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1134. These records include correspondence, reports, copies of journals of proceedings of legislative assemblies, and other records relating to territorial administration.State Department Territorial Papers, Montana, 1864-72Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1018 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 356. On the two rolls of this microcopy are reproduced four bound volumes of records of the Department of State relating to the administration of affairs in Montana Territory, 1864-72. The records consist mainly of communications received by the Secretary of State from the Governor and the Secretary of the Territory, October 14, 1864 - July 16, 1872.State Department Territorial Papers, Nebraska December 31, 1854 - March 27, 1867Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1016 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 228.State Department Territorial Papers, Nevada SeriesCall Number: Online and Microfilm 1009National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 13. Letters and other documents relating to the brief period, 1861-1864, of Nevada's Territorial existence. The papers concern such subjects as the boundary dispute with California, the early years of mining, the presence of disloyal influences in the Territory, and the movement for statehood, as well as more routine administrative and legislative matters.State Department Territorial Papers, New Mexico, 1851-1872Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1012National Archives microfilm publications. T ; microcopy no. 17.State Department Territorial Papers, Oregon, 1848-58Call Number: Online and Microfilm 836National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 419. 1 reel. Part 1: Correspondence May 28, 1792 – June 24, 1858. Part 2: Executive Proceedings.State Department Territorial Papers, Utah SeriesCall Number: Online and Microfilm 1005 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 12State Department Territorial Papers, Washington SeriesCall Number: Online and Microfilm 1004National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 26. reel 1. July 1, 1854-January 8, 1859 -- reel 2. February 18, 1859-December 4, 1872.State Department Territorial Papers, Wyoming Series July 25, 1868 - January 9, 1873Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1007National Archives microfilm publications. M ; Microcopy no. 85.State Department Territorial Papers. Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, 1787-1801Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1011 and pamphletNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 470. On the single roll of this microfilm publication are reproduced three bound volumes of records of the Department of State relating to the administration of affairs in the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, 1787-1801. The records consist mainly of communications received by the Secretary of State from the Governor and the Secretary of the territory between July 13, 1787 and June 10, 1801. The arrangement of the records in the volumes is basically chronological.State Department Territorial Papers. Territory Southwest of the River Ohio, 1790-1795Call Number: Online and Microfilm 1010National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 471. Bound volume of papers of the Department of State relating to the Territory Southwest of the River Ohio. Consists primarily of executive proceedings, but two documents at the beginning of the volume concern pre-Revolutionary land grants and loyalty to the British Crown.Superintendent's Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports from Field Jurisdictions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1907-1938Call Number: Online and Microfilm 270 and guideNational Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 1011.Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States [Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate]Call Number: Online and Microfilm 262 and guideSurvey of Indian Reservations, 1935. South Dakota. Emergency Relief Administration.Call Number: Online and Microfilm 832 and guideUniversity of South Dakota American Indian Oral History Research ProjectCall Number: Microfiche 281New York Times Oral History Program.War Department Records of the Division and Department of the Pacific, 1847-1873Call Number: Microfilm 1332National Archives microfilm publications. M ; microcopy no. 2114.
Library owns reel 1-5, 12-89. These records comprise general headquarters records, records of staff officers, and field records of the Colorado Expedition, 1858-59.
For guide, look up M2114 and click on PDF in NARA Microfilm Catalog record.Washington Matthews Papers. A Microfilm Project of the Wheelwright Museum of the American IndianCall Number: Microfilm 954 and guideConsists of field notes, notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence, vocabulary cards, and biographical material, chiefly from the Matthews Collection of the Wheeler Museum, with supplementary material from other sources. Contents includes: Washington Matthews : an intellectual biography / by Robert Marshall Poor. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, 1975. (Reel 1) Sponsored by the U.S. National Historical Publications and Records Commission.Western Americana, 1550-1900: Frontier History of the Trans-Mississippi WestCall Number: Microfilm 313 and guideBased primarily on the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and the Newberry Library.
Guide online, look for Western American Frontier History, 1550-1900