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Aboriginal Ancestry

From the Newfoundland & Labrador.Provincial Archives. How to use the Archives' holdings to research native ancestry.

Autry National Center

Los Angeles, California. The Autry National Center, formed in 2003 by the merger of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage with the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and the Women of the West Museum, is an intercultural history center dedicated to exploring and sharing the stories, experiences, and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West.

California Indian Library Collections

Catholic Native American Indian Mission Church School Records Sources Midwest United States Guide, Index - Archives - Marquette University

Lists archival holdings in 12 Midwest states, which document Native American heritage and relationships with the Catholic Church. Institutional chronologies are included, which note events pertinent to the creation and disposition of the records. This revised guide was published in 1984 as Guide to Catholic Indian Mission and School Records in Midwest Repositories.

Cherokee Heritage Center / Museum, Village, Theater, and Legal Archive of Cherokee Nation

Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

Native American Genealogy

Guide for holdings at the Alabama Department of Archives & History.

Native American Genealogy: Records and Research

From the Library of Michigan.

Research Guide to Native American Resources at the Connecticut State Library

Includes Mohegan, Paugussett, and Pequot tribes.

Seminole Tribe of Florida: Services: Tribal Library System Services

Seneca Nation of Indians Library - Allegany Branch

Salamanca, New York.

Sherman Indian Museum

Riverside, California. The Sherman Indian High School was one of several off-reservation boarding schools opened by the United States government in the late 1800s.

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

Contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

Southwest Museum

Los Angeles, California.

Talbot Library & Museum

Colcord, Oklahoma. Research library specializing in Northeast Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, and Cherokee Territory genealogy research & history.

Tennessee State Library and Archives

Historical and Genealogical Information - Suggestions for Native American Research (Cherokee).

The Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley

The Indian and Colonial Research Center, Inc.

Connecticut. Non-profit resource center dedicated to the study of Native American and Colonial American history and genealogy.

Tulsa City-County Library

Oklahoma.