Alaska’s Digital Archives

Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage; Alaska State Library

“Alaska's Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout our state.” Extensive content on Alaska Native History & Cultures, including sections on Education and Traditional Ways of Learning.

American Indian Ledger Art - The Walter Bone Shirt Ledger

K. Ross Toole Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana

The drawings of Walter Bone Shirt, a Lakota artist.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection

Digital Collections, University of Washington Libraries

“The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and 23 University of Washington publications in Anthropology.” Over 100 images related to Education are included in the collection. 

North American Indians Collection

Western History and Genealogy, Denver Public Library

“The Library's resources on North American Indians focus on social life and customs, religion, government relations, warfare and military life and tribal history. The collection features an extensive selection of books, academic and scientific publications, vintage travel guides and journals, newspapers and magazines, microfilm, oral histories and manuscripts that all provide deeper insight into the lives of this country's original inhabitants. In addition, our collection includes art by renowned western artists and our American Indian art collection provides unique glimpses of pre-photographic western life.”

Pictures of Native Americans in the United States

The National Archives

“The pictures listed in this leaflet portray American Indians, their homes and activities. They have been selected from pictorial records deposited in the National Archives by 15 Government agencies, principally the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the United States Army. All of the pictures described in the list are either photographs or copies of artworks.”