Research Guides: History of Native Nations in the U.S. &amp; Canada: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Databases of Digitized Archival Content

American West This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library.
Contains books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, and many other primary sources related to the U.S. West, covering topics such as Native Americans, the Gold Rush, fiction, outlaws, and conservation.
Sabin Americana: history of the Americas, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new window
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Based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography. Contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Includes books, pamphlets, serials, etc. providing original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and more.
Indigenous peoples of North America This link opens in a new window
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Digitized primary sources covering the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window
Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.