Resources related to Native and Indigenous peoples

Research and databases

 

HY 300 Native American History: Start Here

Start Here - HY 300 Native American History - LibGuides at University of Alabama

UA library guide for HY 300 Native American History.

 

 

 

Yale Indian Papers Project  “Exploring 400 years of New England Native American history, community, culture, sovereignty, land, gender, race, identity, migration, law, and politics.”

Indian Mariners Project “Explores the history of and ongoing relationship between Native people and the sea.”

Peabody Museum Collections Online  Access 600,000 database records and 300,000 associated digital photographs in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Maps

Pan Inuit Trails Atlas “Provides a synoptic view (although certainly incomplete) of Inuit mobility and occupancy of Arctic waters, coasts and lands, including its icescapes, as documented in written historical records (maps of trails and place names).”

Map of Tenochtitlán, ca. 1550, by Indigenous artists

News and blogs

Indigenous Food Revolutionary  This link is to a specific post about the Kanyen’kéha Language and Food Project, but take some time to look around the blog’s many resources, including some Mohawk language recordings.

Indigenous History

Indian Country Today Media Network

Native Appropriations

Native Women’s Collective–Northwest Coast Regalia Stories Project  A digital humanities exhibit that “explores the life of cultural regalia pieces for Northwest California Native peoples.” And be sure to fill out the evaluation form! You can enter for a chance to win a thank you gift from the collective!

Project 562  Matika Wilbur’s photographs of individuals from all federally recognized Native tribes (there are now 566)

Tribal government websites

Poarch Band of Creek Indians