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US History: Native Americans and the West

Resources for American History

From Our Databases

Map of the Country Inhabited by the Western Tribes of Indians (1809)
From the American West Databases

List of Federally Recognized Tribes (2015)
Compiled by the United States' Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in the US Department of the Interior

Native Resistance
Online exhibition about how indigenous peoples sought to resist the encroachment of foreign powers into their lives. From the database American Indian Histories and Culture.

Books

Turner, Frederick Jackson, and John Mack Faragher. Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History, and Other Essays. New York, N.Y., H. Holt, 1994. Check abailability in PAC Ozuna LibraryE179.5 .T9577 1994.

Cover Art image Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West. Illustrated ed. ed., New York, Sterling Innovation, 2009. Check availability at PAC Ozuna Library, E81 .B75 2009.