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History 396: American Indians - Fall, 2007
Professor R. Nichols

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:


American Indian and the United States: a Documentary History,. Washburn, Wilcomb E., New York: Random House [1973] 4 volumes, E93 W27 Main Ref.

These include selected: reports of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs; congressional debates, judicial decisions, treaties and acts of Congress. These are not all that exists, but a good place to get an overview.

"The management of Indian affairs by the U.S. Government originated within the War Dept., where its existence was formalized in 1834 by the establishment of an Indian office headed by a Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In 1849 the office was transferred to the Dept. of the Interior, where it has remained ever since. Prior to 1834 personnel within the War Dept. concerned with Indian matters received the general designation “Indian Department.”… Washburn, p. 3.


Indian-white Relations in the United States, bibliography supplemented by the volume covering works published 1975-1980. E93 .P9666 1977 Main Ref. and E93 .P967 1982 Main Ref.


TREATIES:


Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. 1-3, Edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington, GOP, 1904.

Full text of the treaties provided by Oklahoma State University Library on the WEB Access Free to all. Print copy at KF8203 1972 Main Ref.

Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations. WEB Access free to all.

Contains the text of 9 additional treaties not included in the Kappler. Seven are treaties with the British. The other two are early U. S. treaties not included in the Statutes at Large.

Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions. 1775-1979 compiled by Vine Deloria, Jr., and Raymond J. DeMallie. Main Reference KF8202 1999 2 volumes. Includes material not in Kappler including treaties not made with U. S. government.

United States Serial Set Number 4015: Indian Land Cessions in the United States. Access through UA Library. This site has the full text of Serial Set volume 4015 and all of the 67 color maps which accompany the text. This volume represents the second part of the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97 by J.W. Powell, Director.

 

MAPS:

Indian Land Cessions in the United States , 1784-1894. Includes maps from the U.S. Serial Set, no. 4015. You can browse by tribe, date, or state/territory.

 

Atlas of American Indian affairs ,by Francis Paul Prucha. G1201 E1 P7 1970. Main, Special Collections and Law School. Contains maps of cessions, reservations, U.S. military posts, Indian agencies, and other material.


GOVERNMENT REPORTS:

 

Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe. Access through UA Library

Search here for information regarding the US Congress, legislative history, laws and federal regulations. Full text of the American State Papers and U. S. Serial Set is included in the data base.

 

Tips for finding these are at: http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/congruniv/index.html         

 

OTHER GOVERNMENT REPORTS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:

 

Annual Reports, U.S. Commission of Indian Affairs. 1824-1949.

Microfiche 1925

 

Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-81:

Micro-film 234:

 

 

Records of the Arizona Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1863-1873

Micro- film 1821:

 

Guide to the Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, vol. 1 p. 75-9 to 75-12 and p. 17-15 to 75-38 has a list of records for Indian Agencies and for the Superintendencies. CD3026 1995 Main Ref. The UA Library has some of these records.

 

American Indian Microforms in the UA Library are listed here: http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/how/find/microforms/history/indian.html

 


PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS:

 

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Image Gallery http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm

Free to anyone, this offers searching for the Smithsonian Libraries and the Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections which contains many digital images.

 

North American Indian Thought and Culture. WEB Access through UA Library

This database links to full text documents by and about individuals, linguistic groups, places (United States, Canada, Mexico), flora, fauna and natural events, organizations and institutions. Included are biographies and autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches and oral history.

 

Harpweek. WEB Access through UA Library

Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865.

Documents of United States Indian Policy, by Francis Paul Prucha. WEB Access through UA Library catalog.

Includes government documents, court decisions and other important primary source materials.

CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS:

 

America's Historical Newspapers. WEB access through UA Library

A digitized collection: early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states.

Includes:

 

Proquest Historical Newspapers (New York Times, 1851-2002 LA Times 1881-1985, Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1925, Chicago Tribune, 1849-1985, Washington Post, 1877-1989)
Full text and full image searching and retrieving of all these newspapers simultaneously.


18th - 19th Century U.S. Newspapers - Owned by the UA Library http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/how/find/newspapers/19c/index.html

A list organized by state of 18th and 19th century newspapers in UA collection. Lists dates covered.

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection - Free Web Access

http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org

A digitized collection of Colorado newspapers, some dating from 1859 to 1923.

 

Historic Missouri Newspapers Project - Free Web access

http://newspapers.umsystem.edu   

A collection of newspapers from around the state of Missouri. Some titles go back to the mid 1800s through the 20th century.

 

Utah Digital Newspapers - Free Web access

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/        

A digitized collection of Utah newspapers, dating from mid-1800's through early 1900s.

 

Primary Sources in the UA Library can be found by entering the official name of the Indian Agency (example: Whetstone Indian Agency) in our catalog or by doing a keyword search in the catalog using the phrase, “Indian Agency.”

Additional helpful sources can be found doing the following:

On the keyword search page, type name of the Indian Group into the top line. On the second line, change "Any Field" to "Subject."
Type any of the following into the Search Box:
Sources, Interviews, Personal Narratives, statistics, diaries, correspondence, biography, Archives

 

 

 

SECONDARY LITERATURE:

 

America: History and Life - WEB Access through UA Library

History of the United States and Canada. Excellent sources for book reviews.

 

AnthroSource - WEB Access through UA Library

Contains the full text of the current issues of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, along with access to the full text of the complete AAA journal archive in JSTOR.

 

AnthropologyPlus - WEB Access through UA Library

Anthropology, archaeology and cultural studies. Index to the literature from the late nineteenth century to the present.

 

Native Web

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/history/united_states/

Has history for the relevant time period.


For Assistance Contact: Jen Tellman, tellmanj@u.library.arizona.edu, 307-2780

 

 

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