Primary Sources: Native Americans - American Indians - Indigenous Americans

Selections from the newspaper Cherokee Phoenix, 1828-33, including contributions of S. A. Worcester and the newspaper's editor, E. Boudinot.

Documents available in appendix

"... the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." - Description from University of Nebraska Press

Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805-1843
"Gaines played a key role in Indian-white relations during the Creek War of 1813-14, served a two-year term in the Alabama Senate (1825-27), led a Choctaw exploring party to the new Choctaw lands in the West following the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830-31), and served as the superintendent for Choctaw removal (1831-32)."

"Submitted to the Board of Commissioners of the society established in Scotland for promoting Christian knowledge ... First published, as far as can be ascertained, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for the year 1798, first series, volume 5, pp. 12-32."

Primary Sources of American Political Documents