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Bureau of Indian Affairs Photographs Finding Aid & Explorer
Explore over 18,000 digitized photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Use this interactive finding aid to explore photos by Tribal Nation, Geographic Location, or Topic.”
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Image credit: All photos from Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 – 1999 Anita Archuleta, National Archives Identifier 118968155
Andrew Knife in Full Headdress, National Archives Identifier: 12469096
Two first graders playing violins,1934, National Archives Identifier 285426
Horses pulling sledge loaded with logs,1940, National Archives Identifier 285201
Selected Exhibits and Collections
Social Media 21Hide All
- The Arrow-weeds: Environmentalists, Activists, and Artists (Smithsonian)
- Blog posts related to Native American Heritage Month from the Library of Congress
- Exchanging Traditions in Bolivia: A Travelogue (Smithsonian)
- Frogs in Love: A Kumeyaay Story and Song (Smithsonian)
- History Hub: Community for Native American Records (National Archives)
- The Importance of Acknowledging our History blog series: Acknowledging the Ancestral Lands on which National Archives facilities stand. (National Archives)
- Keeping Our Words Alive (Smithsonian)
- The Kumeyaay Communities of California (Smithsonian)
- Laureate at the Library: Joy Harjo Visits the Prints and Photographs Division
- Laureate at the Library: Sharing the History and Realities of Field Recordings of Native American Songs and Narratives (Library of Congress)
- Library of Congress Pinterest board
- Meet Poet Laureate Joy Harjo: Press Roundup (Library of Congress)
- “Meet Black Bull: A Story of Blackfeet Genealogy” (National Archives)
- Native American Heritage on Film (Library of Congress)
- National Archives Flickr site for Native American Heritage Month
- Native Foodways: Roast Salmon on Sticks (Smithsonian)
- Ratified Indian Treaties Project blog series: The digitization of the Ratified Indian Treaties through the different perspectives of NARA’s archival, conservation, and digitization staff (National Archives)
- Standing Rock and Beyond: American Indians on the Move (Smithsonian)
- The Stories Behind the Names: Death at the Santa Fe Indian School, 1891–1909 (National Archives)
- There's No Business Like Show Business: Hollywood Comes to the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1922–1925 (National Archives)
- Works by American Indian Artists: From the National Gallery of Art Collection on Pinterest
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- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
- American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
- Ancestral Voices
- Atlantic World (The): America and the Netherlands
- Chronicling America – Digitized Native American Newspapers
- Dawes Act – Digitized Newspaper Resources
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
- Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools in America Project
- France in America
- Hugh Lenox Scott papers, 1582-1981 (Kiowa Collection)
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894, United States Serial Set, Number 4015
- Indigenous Law Web Archive
- Living Nations, Living Words
- Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives
- Montana Folklife Survey Collection
- Native American Constitutions and Legal Materials
- Native American Education/Indian Schools – Digitized Newspaper Resources
- Jim Thorpe (athlete) – Digitized Newspaper Resources
- Omaha Indian Music
- Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
- Rhode Island Folklife Project Collection
- Wounded Knee – Digitized Newspaper Resources
- Today in History
- -- Chief John Ross
- -- Chief Joseph Surrenders
- -- Encountering Kiska Island
- -- Indian Citizenship Act
- -- Jim Thorpe
- -- Sarah Winnemucca
- Veterans History Project
- -- Veterans History Project Field Kit and Individual Forms: Sample Native American Interview Questions
- -- Willing to Serve: American Indians
- -- David Stephen Bowers
- -- Charles Sequoyah Lee Chupco
- -- Veronica Duncan
- -- Virgil George England
- -- Art Hill Jr.
- -- Charley Johnson
- -- Paulette Yazzie
- Resource Guides/Collection Overviews (Library of Congress)
- -- America Indians in Silent Film – Finding Aid
- -- Collections Overviews - American Studies: Indians of North America
- -- Indians of North America: Selected Resources
- -- Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate: A Resource Guide
- -- Native American History and Culture: Finding Pictures
- -- Primary Documents in American History: Indian Removal Act
- -- Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium: Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin, and Intangible Cultural Heritage
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- American Indian Records at the National Archives
- American Indian Treaties
- Bradley H. Patterson Files (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs Records: Navigating Record Group 75
- Dawes Act (1887)
- The Dawes Rolls: Tutorial (Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory)
- Indigenous Digital Archive Treaties Explorer
- Native Communities Program
- Native American Heritage set on Flickr
- Native American Treaties on Loan from the National Archives
- Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting
- President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
- Researching Still Pictures of Native Americans
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
- Vision Maker Media Documentaries
National Endowment for the Humanities and NEH supported Projects 29Hide All
- Abbe Museum Mukurtu Site from Abbe Museum
- The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (California Language Archive)
- The Comparative Mission Archaeological Portal from University of Florida
- Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology DAHA from Arizona State University
- Documenting Endangered Languages Program
- The Gasuet Orleans Road from Humboldt State University
- Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project from University of Nebraska
- Guide to the Indigenous Material at the American Philisophical Society, from the American Philosophical Society
- Healing the Warrior's Heart
- Laura Gilpin's Artist Photography from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Local Contexts 2.0: Implementing Traditional Knowledge Labels
- Manuscripts Relating to Samson Occom and Eleazar Wheelock’s Early Indian Students
- Mukurtu Midwest from Wisconsin Library Services
- Muskogee (Seminole/Creek) Documentation Project (partially funded by NEH grants)
- Native Voices
- -- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art – Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950 to Now
- Poverty Point: Preservation of a Prehistoric World Heritage Site
- Plateau People's Web Portal (in partnership with Washington State University)
- Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection from University of Nebraska
- Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum awarded Preservation Assistance Grant
- Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations
- Yale Indian Papers Project
- “A Cheyenne Odyssey”
- Humanities Magazine articles
- -- “Center of the West Displays Powerful Art and Artifacts of Bison Culture”
- -- “The History of the Stamp Act Shows How Indians Led to the American Revolution”
- -- “Madam Sacho: How One Iroquois Woman Survived the American Revolution”
- -- “Modern-day Ojibwe Maintain Ties with Language, Cultural Tradition”
- -- "Uncovering Powhatan's Empire"
- -- "Whose Woods These Are . . . " The nomadic practices of the Iroquois Indians
- -- World Beaters: In the early days of basketball, the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian School took on all comers
National Gallery of Art 3Hide All
National Park Service 16Hide All
- American Indian Heritage Gateway
- American Indian History
- Bandelier National Monument
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park
- Coso Rock Art District
- Hubbell Trading Post
- Nez Perce National Historical Park
- National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
- Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands
- Sitka National Historical Park Totem Walk – VirtualTour
- Telling All Americans' Stories: Indigenous Heritage
- Tribal Preservation Program
Smithsonian Institution 12Hide All
- American Indian Powwows
- Americans
- Circle of Dance
- For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw
- Hawai'i: 1989
- Masters of Tradition: A Cultural Journey Across America
- Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
- One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage
- Patriot Nations: Native Americans in Our Nation's Armed Forces
- Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists
- A Song for the Horse Nation
- Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces