GREGORY D. SMITHERS
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Digital Resources

This page is dedicated to providing online access to resources and learning tools related to Indigenous history. The focus is on the eastern half of what is today the United States, with special attention given to the rich history and culture of the Native South

Cherokee Riverkeepers is the product of collaboration with the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield and community partners.
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Indian Country Today


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OsiyoTV

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"The Race to Save Cherokee," from the Language and Life Project

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Indigenous Languages: News and Resources

Saving an Endangered Language

Teaching Indigenous Languages

Providing Language Infrastructure to Indian Country

The Endangered Language Fund

The Native Language Immersion Initiative 

10 Ways to Boost Tribal Language Programs, from 
Indian Country Today
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Digital Library of Appalachia

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Oral & Written Resources


​The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History 

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​Theodore de Bry Engravings

American Journeys - Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

After Columbus - digital collections from the New York Public Library

James Glen Papers

Treaties with the United States

Charles J. Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

The American State Papers - Library of Congress

Edward Curtis and The North American Indian

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley - 
Filson Historical Society

Pioneering the Upper Midwest - Library of Congress

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Collection - Indiana University's Glen A Black Laboratory of Archaeology

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections - from Clarke Historical Library at CMU

Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 - George Mason University 

Jacksonian America - Digital Public Library of America

Southeastern Native American Documents - Digital Library of Georgia

The Removal Crisis

Andrew Jackson's Statement on Removal

Family Stories from the Trail of Tears - Sequoyah Research Center

Stories of the Trail of Tears - Fort Smith National Historic Site

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

The Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project

​The Smithsonian Institution 

Images of Indians of North America - Library of Congress

Images of Native Americans - Bancroft Library 

American Indian Records at the National Archives

Experience Appalachia 

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Mapping Native America

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​Rebecca Onion and Claudio Saunt, "Interactive Time-Laps Map Shows how the U.S. Took More than 1.5 Billion Acres from Native Americans," Slate, June 17, 2014

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Historical Maps

"Proclamation Line" (1763)

"A New and Accurate Map of the Provence of Georgia" (1779)

"Map showing the location of the Indian Tribes within the United States" (1868)

"Aboriginal Map of Tennessee" (1886)

"Indian Territory" (1889)

John Wesley Powell's ""Map of Linguistic Stocks of American Indians" (1890)

"Map of the Former Territorial Limits of The Cherokee Nation of Indians" (1884)

"National Atlas: Indian Tribes, Cultures, and Languages" (1967)

"Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina" (2003)
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Catawba Deerskin Map ca. 1724 - Library of Congress

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Environment & Climate History Resources


American Society for Environmental History aseh.org
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide www.globalchange.gov/indicators/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide
Environmental History: The Inclusive Historian's Handbook inclusivehistorian.com/environmental-history/
​Environmental History (Gale) www.gale.com/primary-sources/environmental-history
Environmental History Resources www.eh-resources.org
Environmental History at Yale environmentalhistory.yale.edu
Forest History Society foresthistory.org/research-explore/archives-library/environmental-history-archives-north-america/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change www.ipcc.ch
NASA - Climate Change science.nasa.gov/climate-change/
State of the Planet news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/12/07/a-new-66-million-year-history-of-carbon-dioxide-offers-little-comfort-for-today/
​United Nations Climate Action www.un.org/en/climatechange
Waterkeeper Alliance waterkeeper.org

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