LibGuides: Primary Sources: Wars &amp; Conflicts: Indian Wars (America)

Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War - Academic Video Online Database

Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War - Academic Video Online Database

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance - Academic Video Online Database

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance - Academic Video Online Database

Online Sources: Indian Wars

Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project Presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. (a Northern Illinois University Libraries' digitization project)
The Black Hawk War (Wisconsin Historical Society) Original Documents and Other Primary Sources from the Wisconsin Historical Society
Cherokee Trail of Tears Primary Sources from the National Archives in Washington, DC Documents and reports pertaining to the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society contain a variety of letters, diaries, and other papers relating to early America and the Revolution; mainly focused on New England colonies, but other colonies are also mentioned.
Digital Public Library of America: Native Americans Includes images, texts, and sound/video clips.
Documents on the Sand Creek Massacre I. Two Editorials from the Rocky Mountain News (1864) II. Congressional testimony by John S. Smith, an eyewitness to the massacre (1865) III. Deposition by John M. Chivington (1865)
Documents Relating to Native American Affairs (UW-Madison) The collection currently includes "Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869" and the "Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs." Includes instructions to treaty commissioners, reports, letters, and in some cases copies of the treaties.
Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History "Provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living."
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian Photographic Images "The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced... In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes."
First Nations Collection The First Nations Collection of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives consists of documents, books and articles relating to the indigenous peoples of this bioregion.
General Nelson A. Miles on the "Sioux Outbreak" of 1890 The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties: Oklahoma State University Laws and treaties with Native American Tribes (1778-1971).
The Indian Ghost Dance and War Barracks Ballad by Pvt. W. H. Prather, an African-American member of the Ninth Cavalry. Composed and popular among the troops during the "Sioux Outbreak" campaign of 1890.
Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Digital Collection Includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's.
Indigenous Digital Archive Explores the history of US government Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes archival documents about Santa Fe Indian School, boarding school records, and letters.
Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Kappler's Indian Affairs is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII).
Letter of Waller Overton to Samuel Overton, Jr. 1790 "Letter relates that family is well; Sam is well; and the campaign against the Mawme [sic] Indians has been successful. From Mss. 65 Ov2, folder 36, box 3, Overton Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."
Missions of Alta California The missions of Alta California were founded for the purpose of Christianizing the American Indian population in those vicinities. The first of the Franciscan missions, San Diego de Alcala, was founded by Father Serra at a temporary location on July 16, 1769.
Mountain Meadows Massacre "This archive contains newspaper account of the event, government investigation reports, early Mountain Meadows Massacre histories in works of Western Americana, Apostate and Anti-Mormon publications, as well as works of fiction, drama, and film. By creating machine-readable electronic texts and digital objects, this collection of core documents can be searched and browsed by users, providing not only increased access to key sources, but also potential for the emergence of previously unforeseen research questions."
National Museum of the American Indian Photographs, illustrations and artifacts from various tribes.
Native American Constitution and Law Provides access to Constitutions, Tribal Codes and other legal documents.
Native American Documents Project Texts of documents, mostly from the 19th century, about the history of federal policy concerning native peoples.
Native American Heritage Month
Native American Religions Texts of Native American religion, mythology and folklore. Part of the larger Sacred Texts site.
Native Voices Interactive timeline, online exhibit and recorded interviews with Native Americans concerning the topics of health and illness. Interviews provide insight into the culture and history of various tribes.
North American Indian: Images from the Smithsonian Collection of Native American photographs by Edward Curtis.
Plains Indian Ledger Art Offers digital views of Plains drawing on paper created during the 1860-1900 period.
Reason for the Ghost Dance Uprising, 11/06/1890 Memorandum from James McLaughlin, Indian Agent at Pine Ridge Agency, Regarding the Reason for the Ghost Dance Uprising, 11/06/1890
Researching American Indians and Alaska Natives: National Archives Provides access to Native American genealogical records as well as tribal treaties.
Shadows at Dawn "The Shadows at Dawn website utilizes the rich array of primary sources generated by a single, troubling event–the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871–to illuminate the world of the mid-nineteenth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This world was home to an unusually diverse collection of human communities: Anglo Americans, Mexican Americans, Tohono O'odham and Apache Indians. The records available on this site mirror this diversity and include court cases, Indian depredation claims, calendar sticks, newspaper articles, treaty negotiations, letters, speeches, early historical accounts, and U.S. Army reports."
Southeastern Native American Documents Contains approximately 2000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
Treaties between the United States and Native Americans Text of treaties adopted between 1778 and 1868.
Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans: Avalon Project Yale Law School Transcriptions of treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans (1778-1868).
Tribal Treaties Database Includes "agreements between tribal nations and the United States (1778-1886) published in the 1904 work “Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties” (Volume II), compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. As you view the treaties in this database, editorial margin notes are included. Links to Kappler’s original text and digitized treaties held at the National Archives can also be found throughout the site. Finally, a recently updated, comprehensive index complements this work."
Walter Mason Camp Collection (BYU) "The Walter Mason Camp digital collection includes 86 photographic images, centering on Camp’s interest in the Indian Wars of North America occurring between 1865 and 1890. These images, from the larger collection of 218 photographs housed in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, are a significant contribution to further study of Native American Wars."

Book Sources: Indian Wars

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Adventure in the Wilderness by Louis A. Bougainville; Edward P. Hamilton (Editor, Translator); Colin G. Calloway (Foreword by)
Call Number: View Online
ISBN: 080612248X
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 by Jerome A. Greene
Call Number: E83.876 .B3 1993
ISBN: 9780806126692
Publication Date: 1996-04-15
The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832 : v. II, Letters and Papers; part I, April 30, 1831-June 23, 1832 by Ellen M Whitney; Illinois State Historical Library
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
A Brief History of the Pequot War by John Mason and Thomas Prince
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Correspondence between Gen. Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun by Andrew Jackson; John C. Calhoun
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
President and Vice-President of the U. States, on the subject of the course of the latter, in the deliberations of the cabinet of Mr. Monroe, on the occurrences in the Seminole War.
Custer's fall : the Indian side of the story by David H. Miller
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E83.876 .M6 1985
ISBN: 0803230982
Publication Date: 1985-09-01
A History of the Pequot War by Lion Gardiner
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
or, A relation of the war between the powerful nation of Pequot Indians, once inhabiting the coast of New-England, westerly from near Narraganset Bay and the English inhabitants, in the year 1638. Written and left in manuscript by Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, an actor in that war who resided in the midst of those Indians.
History of the Pequot War
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent and Gardener. Reprinted from the Collections of the Massachusetts historical society, with additional notes and an introduction by Charles Orr ...
Indian War in the Pacific Northwest by Lawrence Kip; Clifford E. Trafzer (Introduction by)
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E83.84 .K57 1999
ISBN: 0803277911
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh by John L. Hardenbergh
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
of the Second New York continental regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779 in General Sullivan's campaign against the western Indians
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 by Jerome A. Greene (Editor)
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E83.876 .L25 1994
ISBN: 9780585170152
My Life on the Plains : or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George A. Custer
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699 by Charles Henry Lincoln
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Other Authors: Easton, John, 1617-1705., S., N. , Hutchinson, Richard. , Rowlandson, Mary White, approximately 1635-1711., Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728
Nevves from America by John Underhill
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
By Captaine Iohn Underhill, a commander in the warres there. London, 1638.
Notices of Florida and the Campaigns
Call Number: Online - free - Open Library
History of the early campaigns of the Second Seminole War, by an officer with Brisbane's regiment in the Left Wing of Scott's attempt to march on the Seminoles.
The Old Indian Chronicle by S. G. Drake
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
being a collection of exceeding rare tracts written and published in the time of King Philip's war, by persons residing in the country; to which are now added marginal notes and Chronicles of the Indians from the discovery of America to the present time
On the Border with Crook by John G. Bourke
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E83.866 .B78 1971
ISBN: 0803257414
Publication Date: 1971-09-01
On the Plains with Custer and Hancock by W. J. Kennedy
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E83.866 .C63 1996
ISBN: 9781555661847
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles by Nelson Miles
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Powder River Expedition Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge by Wayne R. Kime (Editor); Richard Irving Dodge
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E83.876.D64 A3 1997
ISBN: 9780806129839
Publication Date: 1997-12-15
The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico by J. Manuel Espinosa
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E99.P9 P86 1988
ISBN: 9780806123653
Publication Date: 1991-09-15
Sagebrush soldier : Private William Earl Smith's view of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L. Smith
Call Number: View Online & Boca Raton General Collection E83.876.S65 S65 1989
ISBN: 9780806122090
Publication Date: 1989-10-01
Sioux War dispatches : reports from the field, 1876-1877 by Marc H. Abrams
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E83.876 .A27 2012
ISBN: 9781594161568
Publication Date: 2012-05-11
The Story of the Little Big Horn; Custer's Last Fight by Lieut. Col. W. A. Graham
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
A Warrior who fought Custer by interpreted by Thomas B. Marquis
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare (ebook version) by George A. Custer
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
With Custer on the Little Bighorn : a newly discovered first-person account by William O. Taylor; Greg Martin (Editor)
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection E83.876 .T39 1996
ISBN: 0670868035