McGraw-Page Library: Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month: Home

Events and Studies in U.S. History

Title: The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

Title: The World of Indigenous North America

Title: Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Title: Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians

Title: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Events and Studies in the U.S. South

Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs

Fiction, Poetry, Oratory, and Folktales

Arts and Entertainment

Children's Books

Playlist

Playlist for Native American Heritage Month

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Research Materials

BIA - Photographs Finding Aid
Explore over 18,000 Photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Record Group 75)

Indigenous Peoples of North America
"Enabling exploration of the political, social, and cultural history of native peoples from the sixteenth century well into the twentieth century, Indigenous Peoples of North America illustrates the fabric of the North American story with unprecedented depth and breadth. Comprehensive yet personal, the collection covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations." - website
JSTOR - Independent Voices - Native American "The late 1960s and early 1970s saw an increase of Native American activism and the rise of "Red Power" as an activist movement demanding greater educational and economic opportunities and tribal rights. At the same time, U.S. policy toward Native American tribes provided greater opportunities for indigenous people to manage local government and local issues. This led to the establishment of an active Native American press, with publications like NARP Newsletter, Many Smokes, and Native Movement, that championed such key issues as Native American rights, religious freedom, equal education, and preserving community, language and tribal sovereignty." - website
Transcribed Collections - Smithsonian Institution
Transcribed Native American and indigenous history collections housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Great primary sources include diaries, letters, journals, photos, and audio files.

Films

Archeology at Werowocomoco [Virginia]

Films on Demand

Native American Studies

Spend some time getting to know indigenous populations by watching a few of these 669 films depicting many facets of Native America.

PBS - Native America four-part series

One community's experience within the residential school system has been captured in this mini-documentary.

"In partnership with the Upper Sioux Community, NABS produced “Voices from Pezihutazizi Oyate: Boarding School Histories.” In this mini documentary, Upper Sioux Community citizens share their perspectives on the legacy of Indian boarding schools and the lasting impact it has had on them personally and culturally."

Web Links

National Museum of the American Indian
"The NMAI cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego."
Native American Heritage Month - U.S. Government
"This Web portal is a collaborative project of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and U.S. National Archives and Records Administration."
Native American History - NARA
"The National Archives holds hundreds of thousands of U.S. Government records relating to Native Americans, from as early as 1774 through the mid-1990s. These include every treaty signed with Native Americans, records from the Indian Schools, Indian Census Rolls, and Bureau of Indian Affairs records."
Native American Resources - Library of Virginia
"As the original inhabitants and caretakers of the land known today as Virginia, the influence of indigenous communities on the land, history, and culture of the commonwealth over the last 12,000 or more years cannot be understated."
Native Land Digital
"Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide."

Members of the 3rd and 4th Division Navajo code talker platoons of World War II dressed in their unit's uniform, pose for a group photo during a commemoration of the landing on Iwo Jima. - National Archives

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Mt. Edgecumbe Boarding School at Sitka, Alaska, Closure Files, 1957-1983
"There is correspondence related to the closure as well as general correspondence having to do with physical property needs, personnel management, recreation supplies and other administrative matters."