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American Philosophical Society Library

The American Philosophical Society Library is a major national center for research in the history of the sciences, medicine, and technology. With its roots extending back to the founding of the Society in 1743, it houses over 350,000 volumes and bound periodicals, eleven million manuscripts, 250,000 images, and thousands of hours of audio tape. The collections include Early American History, Maps, Native American Materials, Naval History, Recordings, and more. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Dedicated to preserving and advancing the language, history, culture, and lifeways of indigenous peoples. Located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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.

Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley

California State Library - Research Guides - California Native Americans

A guide to the California Native American history and genealogy resources at the California State Library, California History Section.

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

Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.

Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives

Phoenix Indian School Historic Photographs, Native American Artists Collection, Indian Education and Boarding Schools, and much more. The Digital Library represents a virtual selection from the Heard Museum archives and art collection. The Heard Museum has an extensive collection of art, documentary and photographic works on American Indians with an emphasis on Indigenous people in the Greater Southwest. The Heard Museum, founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1929, is a non-profit cultural institution dedicated to educating the public about the arts, heritage and life ways of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with an emphasis on American Indian tribes of the Southwest.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

Indian & Colonial Research Center

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

Indian Family History Collection | Clarke Historical Library | Central Michigan University

Because of its strong collection of Native American material, the Clarke Library has long served as an important resource for individuals of Native American ancestry seeking to discover their family history. These resources, however, have often been difficult to use. Many are federal records that are found on microfilm. Others are documents that lack a formal title and over time have accrued several "common" names, leading to considerable confusion when they are requested. By bringing these resources online in a searchable format we hope to solve some of these problems and make the documents easier for researchers to explore.

Library of Congress - Native American Resources in the Manuscript Division

This guide provides curated manuscript resources at the Library of Congress for researching Native American history and cultures, including personal papers and organizational records in addition to related resources and discovery tools.

Library of Congress Search - Indian Nations

Library of Congress Search - Indian Tribes

Library of Congress Search - Native Americans

Marquette University - Native America Collections

Post-Columbian collections encompassing Indians/ Indigenous peoples of North, South and Central America, the bulk of which pertain to the Catholic Church and Native American people in the United States since 1874.

Marquette University- Archives - Guide to Catholic Records about Native Americans in the United States

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.

Maryland State Archives Mayis Indigenous Records

Museum of Indian Culture

Home of the Clair A. Carbonell Native American Research Library in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

NARA - Native American Heritage - Navigating Record Group 75

Records created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) document the U.S. federal government’s interaction with American Indians.

National Museum of the American Indian

Part of the Smithsonian.