Native American & Indigenous Studies Research Guide

A digital history cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.

Features significant original materials on the history of native peoples of the Western hemisphere.

Four sets of exhibits, and related essays and lesson plans from the collections of the University of California.

The indigenous languages of California belong to as many as 20 major language families. Some of the languages shown below are chains or sets of closely related dialects. The names of languages may also change, or vary from dialect to dialect, or from community to community.

Calisphere provides access to more than 2,000 collections contributed by more than 300 cultural heritage organizations (libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies) in California. Use > keywords in a title search to find relevant collections.

Typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Content on this site is drawn from a historical source which includes materials that may contain offensive images or language reflecting the nature of Settler Colonialism in America. Such materials should be viewed in the context of the time and place in which they were created. The images and text in this site are presented as specific, original artifacts recording the attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of a different era.

Find information about and resources for Native Americans and Alaska Native entities.

The only museum in the U.S. for exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists. (IAIA = Institute of American Indian Arts)

Includes typological collections of Southwestern textiles, pottery, baskets, jewelry, contemporary art, and artifacts that depict the everyday life during New Mexico's extensive period of human habitation.

One of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts, including objects, photographs, archives, and media covering the entire Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.

Established in 1976, through the passage of AB 4239, the Native American Heritage Commission is the primary California government agency responsible for identifying and cataloging Native American cultural resources.

An introduction to the cultures and histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States,

Items digitized from the New York State Library's collection.

Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide.

A scholarly critical edition of New England Native American primary source materials gathered into one robust virtual collection.

Multiple collections with Native American digitized photograps, manuscripts, posters, oral histories, videos, maps, and books from libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the state.