Atrocities Against Native Americans

1500 - 1900

Websites

Timeline - History Through a Native Lens: Native Philanthropy

"Explore this chronological timeline written by Dr. Karina Walters, containing historically traumatic events, settler colonial policies, and Native resistance movements. "

Home Page | National Museum of the American Indian

View online exhibitions, the Museum's Archive Center, and more.

Digital Public Library of America

American Indian Boarding SchoolsThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Native American Boarding Schools | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress Photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons, and maps tell the complex tale of the efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education

The Wounded Knee MassacreThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Digital Public Library of America

Cross-Cultural Colonial ConflictsThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Native Voices: Digital History

This is an archive of sources by and about America's Indigenous People and their history.

Bureau of Indian Affairs RecordsBureau of Indian Affairs Allotment Records, Applications, Case Files, Correspondence, Rolls Background on the Bureau of Indian Affairs Photograph from an industrial survey report of Fort Bidwell Agency, California. The photograph presumably depicts Bieber Quinn, Leroy Quinn, Sally Ann Quinn, and Sally Jack sitting on a front porch., ca. 1924.

Native American Heritage Month

The Native American Heritage Month website has a large number of links to various resources that relate to Native American history.

Videos

Learn about why many Native Americans call Thanksgiving the National Day of Mourning,

NBC reports on the Native American Boarding Schools in the United States.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian explains how Indigenous people were treated and displaced throughout American history.

This video discusses how the US Government created and broke many treaties with Native Nations throughout history, and explains what the United States would look like if it honored these treaties.

Crash Course tackles the history between the European settlers and the Native People of America from the first English colonists to approximately 1678.

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