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First Peoples Research: Home

This guide is designed to help you successfully conduct research for your First Peoples course projects and assignments

Historical Newspaper Collections

EBooks

Academic Databases

Internet Resources

American Indian Digital History Project 

A "digital history cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs and archival materuals"

Denver Public Library Western History Division 

These digital collections are excellent resources for those doing research on Westward Expansion, Native American History and other such areas of study.

Huntington Free Library Native Amercan Collection

Maintained by Cornell University, this digotal collection contains many interesting pieces of Native American history

Index of Native American Historiy Resources on the Internet

This links to the 'history' tab of the Index and features a variety of resources on many tribal nations. 

Lakota/Dakota Language and Culture Resources

This is an excellent compendium of Lakpta specific resources compiled by Sitting Bull College 

Native American Traditions

Part of Harvard's Pluralism Project, this is a collectoon of essays on Native traditions and experiences 

Newberry Library's Digital Collection of Amerrcan Indain & Indigenous Studies

This is a link to the digitized collections of Indigenous Studies Research collected by the Newberry's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Our Documents (NARA)

The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) have compiled 100 Milestone Documents that have shaped American History from 1776 to 1965. This collection includes: The Treaty of Fort Laramie and the Dawes Act among other relevant Native American historical documents.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian--Online Collections

This is the portal for the National Musuem of the American Indian's onine resources. 

Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American Perspectives 

This is a page of Native news and social media commentary on Standing Rock curated by UC-Berkley

Tribal Nations and the United States: An Introduction 

This is a link to a 2020 report compiled by the National Congress of American Indians. The site also includes other helpful resources

Tribal Writer's Digital Library

Compiled by the University of Arkansas-Little Rock's Sequoyah National Research Center, this resource contains a lot of excellent examples of Native writings

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American University Library Catalog

Ellison Library has an institutional borrowing account with American University (AU). This means that you have access to millions of books outside of our own library collection. This catalog will help you see if AU has whatever book you may need. To request it, simply contact Mr. Kantz or Mr. Seese.

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