The Newberry Library is an independent research library concentrating in the humanities with an active educational and cultural presence in Chicago. Privately funded, but free and open to the public, it houses an extensive non-circulating collection of rare books, maps and manuscripts. Subject areas within the humanities include Indian Captivities, Indian languages, Indians of Central America, Indians of North America and Mexico, and Indians of South America.
The National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
The National Portrait Gallery: Native Americans Collection (Smithsonian Institution)
This online gallery contains portraits of distinguished Native Americans with short biographies. Included are Tenskwatawa, the Ute Treaty-making Delegation of 1868, Geronimo (Goyathlay), Chief Joseph, Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak), Little Crow (Tahetan Wakawa Mini), Osceola, Peter Pitchlynn, Lewis Bennett (Deerfoot), Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka), and Chief Thundercloud.
The Library of Congress: Edward S. Curtis Collection
This is a collection of early twentieth century photographs of Native Americans that were taken by Edward Sherriff Curtis over a period of thirty years. Many of the photographs were published in 1907 in The North American Indian, a twenty-volume set.
The Beinecke Library (Yale University): Exhibition: The Illustrating Traveler
Subtitle: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean 1760-1895. From the web site, "This exhibition displays illustrated traveler's narratives and original art by travelers from the later 18th to the late 19th century. ... Native Americans were an important focus of illustration in North American travel accounts." From the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut).
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