Trial access to Native American Tribal Histories, series 1-4

UCL has trial access to Native American Tribal Histories, series 1-4 from Readex until 31st April 2022.

Through much of the 19th century, the education, land rights, treaty negotiations and other affairs of Native American tribes were overseen by a cadre of superintendents from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). BIA superintendents scrupulously recorded their interactions with Native American tribes, leaving behind a detailed archive that is captured here in full. Native American Tribal Histories, series 1-4 contains all the manuscript letters and reports that the superintendents sent to Washington, D.C., as well as the responses and instructions received from the nation’s capital.

These primary source documents cover not only encounters between Indigenous people and the U.S. government, but also accounts of Native American cultures during a time when disease and forced relocation were transforming their lives.

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