Collections taggedIndigenous History

Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1849-1880, California Superintendency

The first 30 years of California's statehood were a time of upheaval for American Indians throughout California. New state officials worked to assume control of California's affairs and boundaries, U.S. government officials unfamiliar with California and its Indians arrived to document tribal...

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Tribes of North East India and Myanmar

This Project will endeavour to transcribe documents relating to the various tribes of the North East of India and across the border in Myanmar (Burma) The first documents uploaded from the British era relating to the Patkai ranges. These documents relate in particular to the tribal groups in...

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Wawanosh Family

Indigenous records for the Chippewas of Sarnia (now known as Aamjiwnaang First Nation) are held within the Wawanosh Sands Mern Family fonds. They were band Chiefs in the 19th and early 20th century.

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First Nations Language Collection

There are over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language groups in Queensland. The Queensland State Archives Languages Project aims to support First Nations communities to record and revive traditional languages across the state. The project involves identifying, researching,...

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Rediscovering Indigenous Languages

Rediscovering Indigenous Languages These First Nations language materials are being made available to assist community access the collections which were identified in the Rediscovering Indigenous languages project. The Rediscovering Indigenous Languages site features historic word lists,...

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Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery

As a part of the process to develop a future archive and website for Native Bound Unbound, we are using the transcription software and portal developed by From the Page for transcribing primary source documents. One of the goals of Native Bound Unbound is to gather documents related to...

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Vocabulary of New South Wales Aboriginal Dialects

This collection includes word lists of Indigenous Australian to English (6 volumes), and English to Indigenous Australian (4 volumes), with map, and location index in Volume 01.

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Indigenous Episteme

The purpose of this project is to carry out research focused on the ethnohistory of the religions of the Coahuilteco-speaking indigenous people who lived in southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico, in the current Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, during the colonial period (18th...

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Colonial North America: Dumbarton Oaks

Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...

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Henry and Elizabeth Baird papers, 1798-1937

The Henry and Elizabeth Baird Papers (1798-1937) document the birth and growth of Wisconsin over the course of the 19th century. The Bairds played a key role in negotiating Indian treaties, establishing state government, and leading political and economic development Wisconsin. Their surviving...

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Cherokee Lands Salesbooks

The collection contains records of sales of former Cherokee lands in Macon County, N.C., made by Samuel Finley Patterson and Charles L. Hinton, state commissioners. Records include amount of land sold, price, name of surveyor, purchaser, and other data

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Native Bound Unbound: English Language Documents

As a part of the process to develop a future archive and website for Native Bound Unbound, we are using the transcription software and portal developed by From the Page for transcribing primary source documents. This collection houses our current English-language documents, including colonial...

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Archdeacon James Gunther papers, 1826-1878

The Archdeacon William James Gunther (1839-1918) was born on 28 May 1839 at Wellington, New South Wales, and was son of Reverend James William Gunther and his wife Lydia, née Paris. Gunther (the elder) was a German-born missionary, who worked in the Mudgee district and died circa 1879. The...

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Sir Thomas Mitchell - Papers, 1708-1855

Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855) was appointed surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1828. Between 1831 and 1846 he made four exploring expeditions into the interior of Australia. The papers held by the State Library of New South Wales include Sir Thomas Mitchell field books, sketchbooks and...

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Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia records, 1885-1914, with additional material, 1921-1926, 1991, and papers of Alan Carroll, 1886-1892

The Society's collection includes Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place names, 1899-1903, 1921-1926., and Survey forms, lists and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia...

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William Gardner - Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854

William Gardner arrived in Sydney from Leith in 1838. He lived and worked in Maitland and then in Armidale and compiled the first detailed map of the northern districts of New South Wales, published in September 1844. Both volumes of his manuscript Production and resources of the northern and...

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James Cook - A Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's Bark Endeavour on a voyage round the world, by Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, commencing the 25th of May 1768 - 23 Oct. 1770

This item, held by the State Library of New South Wales, was selected for the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project

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Select specimens from nature of the birds animals &c &c of New South Wales / collected and arranged by Thomas Skottowe Esqr. ; the drawings by T.R. Browne. N.S.W.

Thomas Skottowe was Commandant of the Newcastle penal settlement from 1811 to 1814. While in Newcastle, Skottowe organised the collection and drawing of specimens for this manuscript. He was also responsible for their arrangement and wrote the accompanying text. Richard Browne, watercolour...

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Milson family further papers, 1826 - 1960

The following parts of this collection, held by the State Library of New South Wales, were selected for the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project: -Box 14 Folder 7: James Milson, correspondence & documents of David Dunlop, 1830s-1880s -Box 20 Folder 1: James Milson, Aboriginal...

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