Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month

"The annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs summarize the agency's activities for a given year. These reports can be useful for tracking changes in federal Indian policy and spending, outlining the agency's organizational structure, and identifying offices with jurisdiction over Indian affairs." - search.library.wisc.edu/ website

"This collection presents United States government records that document debate and decisions related to Native American affairs." - search.library.wisc.edu/ website

"Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, this historically significant, seven volume compilation contains U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes." - library.okstate.edu website

"The Indian Claims Commission Decisions is a 43-volume set documenting the claims of American Indian groups against the United States from 1946 to 1978." - library.okstate.edu/ website

"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." - go.gale.com website

"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." - jstor.org website

"Life Along the River: The Pamunkey Indian Tribe of Virginia is a digital storybook that explores the history and contemporary lives of the Pamunkey peoples. The content of the storybook is organized into four chapters. Each chapter explores a particular theme that is important to the Pamunkey Indian Tribe: place, community and culture, history, and the future." - from "About This Resource."

"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." - website

"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." - https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov website

"The Native Northeast Portal contains primary source materials by, on, or about Northeast Indians from repositories around the world." - https://www.nativenortheastportal.com/ website

"The Bell Route, one of several routes used during Cherokee Removal, was traveled by a group of about 650 Cherokee people from October 1838 to January 1839. This database includes sources about the Bell Route for research and reference." - https://cherokee-bell-route.org/ website

Transcribed Native American and indigenous history collections housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Great primary sources include diaries, letters, journals, photos, and audio files.