A story with interactive timeline discussion the history of native nations in the area that is now Chicagoland. From WBEZ's Curious City.

Details how and why to offer a land acknowledgment while at Northwestern. Includes pronunciations and images.

An effort to advocate for the full and respectful inclusion of rules for citation to tribal materials in the Bluebook.

A one-hour documentary featuring the personal and professional stories of American Indian Attorneys and Tribal Judges. (NOTE: access limited to NLaw community, email the reference desk law-reference@law.northwestern... for access to this title)

(available on Lexis). A regularly updated and highly regarded treatise on federal Indian law.

A restatement from the American Law Institute, in its final proposed draft form as of March 30, 2021. Hein's library also contains some earlier drafts as well.

From Westlaw: "a concise, direct, and easy-to-understand handbook on Indian law." This would be a good source for starting points on issues of American Indian Law.

A gigantic collection of primary and secondary sources on American Indian law ranging from the treaties of the Kappler Report to legislative histories of federal legislation and Indian tribal codes. Hein will let you search across the whole collection.

NILL is an essential source for researching American Indian Law. In addition to their valuable collection of Indian law resources, NILL also assists people with their Indian law-related research needs. They have a number of online research guides and offer research assistance via email.

A good source for basic facts and starting points on questions of history. Groups information by historical eras, major themes (like "treaties and treaty making"), as well as by geography.

A good starting point. Essays on historical and contemporary topics including colonial conflict, trade economies, decisive wars, parsing of Native American land enabled by American policy, assimilation, and native claims to land, among other topics.

Gathers explanatory essays and primary source materials (mainly published books and articles, and some unpublished manuscripts) on selected cultures or societies around the world. Organized by culture and by subject.

(choose Northwestern University as your institution) Provides biographies, photos, first person accounts, and other primary source documents.

This database allows users to trace the history of Native Peoples in North America from colonial relations in the 1600s to twentieth-century issues such as civil rights. Includes manuscript collections, rare books and monographs, newspapers, periodicals, census records, legal documents, maps, drawings and sketches, oral histories, and photos, as well as video content from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A recent addition adds a near complete record of the Indian Rights Association, 1882–1986, an advocacy organization founded to address Native American interests and rights. The organization was founded by non-natives and has a complicated history involving assimilationist efforts.

Billed as "Every Major Book Printed in North America about Native Peoples," this database of "More than 1,600 publications about the relationship between Native Americans and European settlers" lets you search across these works and includes author biographies in order to examine the author's perspective. From a limited timeframe and a Eurocentric perspective.

This resource provides researchers with the opportunity to understand and analyze Native American migration and resettlement throughout U.S. history, as well as U.S. Government Indian removal policies and subsequent actions to address Native American claims. Content includes decisions, transcripts, docket books, journals of the Indian Claims Commission, a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes; and related statutes and congressional publications.

A Library of Congress article explaining more about settlement acts and offering a research strategy.

American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971 features a number of excellent collections on American Indians in the 19th and 20thCentury, with a focus on the interaction among white settlers, the U.S. federal government, and Indian tribes.Included are Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Major Council Meetings of American Indian Tribes.

The wide range of material included in American Indian Histories and Cultures presents a unique insight into interactions between American Indians and Europeans from their earliest contact, continuing through the turbulence of the American Civil War, the on-going repercussions of government legislation, right up to the civil rights movement of the mid- to late-twentieth century. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.

Presents a realistic depiction of removal as a complicated process that was deeply affected by political, economic, and tribal factors. May be helpful for parsing the history and movement behind the treaties involving a particular nation.

A historical collection of materials from the State Department and Department of the Interior from when the states were territories. Includes treaty negotiations with native peoples.

Historical primary source documents written by Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendents about the people they worked with and observed.