Government and Tribal information resources

Government agencies, archives, tribal and state governments       

The following institutions, agencies, and websites comprise a partial list of sources for primary and secondary research materials.  It is by no means complete, but these are good places to start with any research project, or simply gather more information than we could provide here.

 

United States Government

 

Bureau of Indian Affairs

http://www.bia.gov/

 

Bureau of Land Management

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html

 

Department of the Interior

http://www.doi.gov/bureaus/index.cfm

 

Fort Laramie National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/fola/index.htm

 

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

(LOC's American Memory Collection)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

 

National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/

 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

http://www.usace.army.mil/

 

Tribal Governments

Apache (Yavapai)

http://www.yavapai-apache.org/

Apache (Chiricahua)

http://www.chiricahuaapache.org/

Arapaho (Northern)

http://www.northernarapaho.com/

Anishinabeg (Ojibwe) Nation

http://www.whiteearth.com/programs/?program_id=8

Blackfeet Nation

http://www.blackfeetnation.com/

Cherokee Nation (Eastern Band)

http://www.cherokee-nc.com/

Chickasaw Nation

http://www.chickasaw.net/

Choctaw Nation

http://www.choctawnation.com/

Cheyenne (Northern) Nation

http://www.cheyennenation.com/

Chippewa Nation

(See Anishinabe)

Comanche Nation

http://www.comanchenation.com/

Creek Nation

http://ngeorgia.com/history/creek.html

Crow Nation

http://www.crowtribe.com

Delaware Nation

http://www.delawarenation.com/

Fort Mojave Nation

http://mojaveindiantribe.com/

Gros Ventre Nation

http://www.engg.ksu.edu/CHSR/outreach/tosnac/sites/Fort_Belknap.html

Hopi Nation

http://www.hopi-nsn.gov/

Hunkpapa Sioux

http://www.standingrock.org/

Kiowa Nation

http://www.kiowatribe.org/

Lakota Sioux (Cheyenne River)

http://www.sioux.org/

Lower Brule Sioux

http://www.lbst.org/newsite/files/ourhomeland.htm

Menominee Nation

http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/

Mohawk Nation

http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/mohawk.htm

Navajo Nation

http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/

Nez Perce

http://www.nezperce.org/

Oglala Sioux

http://www.oglalalakotanation.org/OLN/Home.html

Oneida Nations

http://www.oneidaindiannation.com/

Ojibwe Nation

(See Anishinabe)

Pawnee Nation

http://www.pawneenation.org/

Pequot Nation

http://www.mashantucket.com/

Ponca Nation

http://www.poncatribe-ne.org/start.php

Potawatomi Nation

http://www.potawatomi.org/

Salish and Kootenai (confederated)

http://www.cskt.org/

Sauk and Fox

http://www.sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov/

Seminole Nation

http://www.sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov/

Snohomish (Tulalip Tribes)

http://www.tulaliptribes-nsn.gov/

Teton Sioux

http://www.snowwowl.com/peoplesioux.html

Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)

http://www.mhanation.com/main/main.html

Umatilla Nation

http://www.umatilla.nsn.us/

Western Shoshone

http://www.nodirtygold.org/western_shoshone_nation_usa.cfm

Yankton Sioux

http://lewisandclarktrail.com/sponsors/yanktonsioux/sect1.htm

 

 

Institutions, battlefields, museums, heritage centers

 

Big Hole National Battlefield (Monument)

http://www.nps.gov/biho/index.htm

 

Buffalo Bill Historical Center

http://www.bbhc.org/

 

Custer Battlefield Trading Post

http://www.laststand.com/

 

Fort Benton Museum

http://www.fortbenton.com/museums/

 

Fort Buford State Historic Site

http://history.nd.gov/historicsites/buford/index.html

 

Fort Laramie National Monument

http://www.nps.gov/fola/index.htm

 

Fort Abraham Lincoln

http://www.parkrec.nd.gov/parks/falsp/falsp.html

 

Fort Union National Monument

http://www.nps.gov/foun/index.htm

 

Joslyn Museum (Omaha, Nebraska)

http://www.joslyn.org/

 

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/knri/index.htm

 

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

http://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm

 

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

http://www.siouxcitylcic.com/

 

Midwest Jesuit Archives

http://www.jesuitsmissouri.org/arch/

 

North Dakota Heritage Center

http://history.nd.gov/exhibits/heritagecenter.html

 

Oregon Trail Interpretive Center

http://www.blm.gov/or/oregontrail/

 

Peabody Museum

http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/477

 

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/sand/index.htm

 

Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

 

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

http://www.nps.gov/thro/index.htm

 

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

http://www.npca.org/parks/washita-battlefield-national-historic-site.html