American Indian Studies

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Images and Films

North American Indians: Films and Videos
An alphabetical list of films and videos owned by the UA Library. Searchable by key word.

ARTstor
Includes more than 10,000 images of American Indians from the National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Institution.

Native Networks
The Smithsonian site leads to information about films, video and radio produced by the native peoples of Americas and Hawaii.

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
Part of the Library of Congress American Memories Project. Includes over 2,000 images with supporting and explanatory text.

AP Photographic Archive
Images from the archives of the Associated Press available for teaching and research. Need pictures of AIM leaders? This is the place to find them.

Portrayals of Native Americans
Images from the Bancroft Library collections; covers color plate books, foreign view, mass market appeal and early ethnography.

National Museum of the American Indian

National Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archives
Include manuscripts, fieldnotes, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.  More that 40,000 digital images are available through the Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections catalog.