North American Indian Thought and Culture

North American Indian Thought and Culture is a collection of digitized primary sources covering the histories of Indigenous peoples of North America. Many are firsthand accounts created by Indigenous peoples, but the collection also includes some materials created by U.S. government employees and historical materials created by other authors intended to provide context. Please note that some digitized items may contain views, imagery, or terminology now considered to be inaccurate, biased, or offensive. 

The collection includes autobiographies, biographies, publications by Indigenous peoples, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files. Highlights include:

• 18th & 19th century books, including books by Cadwallader Colden, William Apes, Samuel G. Drake, and Benjamin Drake; autobiographies by Black Hawk, Okah Tubbee, Kah-Ga-Gah-Bowh; and many others.  
• Biographies of prominent people, including Pocahontas, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Plenty Coups.
• Biographies from more than 100 Indian publications, such as The Arrow, the Cherokee Phoenix, and the Chickasaw Intelligencer.
• Writings by King Philip, Red Jacket, Sequoyah, Thayendanegea, Tomochichi, Standing Bear, Red Cloud, John Ross, and Geronimo.
• Materials about many North American groups, including the Inuit of the Arctic; the sub-Arctic Cree; the Pacific Coastal Salish; the Ojibwa, Cheyenne, and Sioux of the Plains; the Luiseno, Pomo, and Miwok of California; the Apache, Navajo, and Hopi of the Southwest; the Creek and Cherokee of the Southeast; the Peqout, Iroquois, and Seneca of the Northeast; the Metis and Nez Perce of the Great Plateau; and others.
• Oral histories
• Photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Edward Curtis, and many rare collections.

This collection may be searched along with some primary source collections covering U.S. history in U.S. History Collection (Alexander Street).