History

1492: An Ongoing Voyage

An excellent historical site from the Library of Congress Exhibitions page. Insight and analysis on the first encounters of Native Americans and Europeans.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

This site honors the students and documents the history of the former Pennsylvania school designed to "civilize" Native American students..

Indian Settlements

An anonymous French map of eastern Wisconsin from the colonial period showing the location of several Native American tribes. From the Library of Congress's American Treasures Collection.

A Narrative of Uncommon Suffering

The first published slave narrative is also an early captivity narrative. Among the adventures of an escaped slave is capture by "cannibalis tic Indians." From Library of Congress pages.

Samuel De Champlain's 1607 Map

Samuel De Champlain's 1607 Map of New England and Canada. Interviews with Native Americans were a source for this map. From the Library of Congress pages.

The Voices of America

The first field recordings of Native American music contain Passamaquoddy songs, tales, and vocabulary, sung and spoken by Noel Josephs and Peter Selmore, as recorded by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) at Calais, Maine, in mid-March 1890. From Librar y of Congress pages.

Rare Books and Special Collections: An Illustrated Guide: American History

A guide to the Library of Congress's collections on American History. Contains material on Native Americans.

Native Americans in Indiana

The resistance and removal of Indians in Indiana.