Subject Headings
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869 -- Sources
United States. Board of Indian Commissioners
Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Sources
Indians of North America -- Missions -- Archives
Examples of Primary Sources
- Documents of Native American Political Development 1500s to 1933Primarily from the 19th-century, these sources document ways that Native nations governed themselves prior to 1934.
- Caitin, George (1796-1872)Books written by Catlin documenting his observations of the Indian tribes of North America; in Regenstein or online.
- Records of the Moravian Mission among the Indians of North America, 1735-1900Moravian Mission was influential through its Indian leaders, many of whom were educated by the missions and even converted to Christianity. Request on Interlibrary Loan from the Center for Research Libraries
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window1665-present. Hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Beyond the Univeristy of Chicago
- Indian removal to the West, 1832-1840 files of the Office of the Commissary General of Subsistence (19 reels)
All of these microfilm collections my be ordered using Interlibrary Loan.
- Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869
- Records of the Indian Division, Office of the Secretary of the Interior, special files, 1848-1907
- Documents relating to the negotiation of ratified and unratified treaties with various tribes of Indians, 1801-69
- Indian wars of the West and frontier army life, 1862-1898 [microform]: official histories and personal narratives
Subject Guide
Nancy Spiegel
she/her
Contact:
Regenstein 413 (not accessible during the renovation-- pls. email for an appointment)