Native American Primary Resources: Home
Land Acknowledgement Statement
We would like to begin by acknowledging the land on which the University at Buffalo operates, which is the territory of the Seneca Nation, a member of the Haudenosaunee/Six Nations Confederacy. This territory is covered by The Dish with One Spoon Treaty of Peace and Friendship, a pledge to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. It is also covered by the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, between the United States Government and the Six Nations Confederacy, which further affirmed Haudenosaunee land rights and sovereignty in the State of New York. Today, this region is still the home to the Haudenosaunee people, and we are grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and share ideas in this territory.
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Databases
- Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new windowItems from libraries, archives, and museums. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowSearch portal provided by Gale. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowHistory of the United States and Canada. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA digital repository of online books and other scholarly materials. More InfoPartial Full-Text PUBLIC
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowWorld history excluding U.S. and Canada; 1450-present. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition Online This link opens in a new windowHistorical statistics and comprehensive essays placing the data in context from colonial times through the present. More InfoData UB ONLY
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text journals in the humanities & social sciences. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
Primary Sources: Focus on U.S. History
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new windowA vast collection of American historical periodicals, 17th-20th century. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- American Periodicals Series (APS) Online This link opens in a new windowAmerican journals and periodicals from the mid-18th through the 19th centuries.
- American Slave: A Composite Autobiography This link opens in a new windowA vast compendium of American slave narratives.
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Parts 1-2: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new windowItems from libraries, archives, and museums. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
- Early American Imprints I This link opens in a new windowA definitive resource for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America.
- Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new windowLetters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Americans.
- Fannie Lou Hamer: Papers of a Civil Rights Activist, Political Activist, and Woman This link opens in a new windowPapers of a prominent voting rights activist and civil rights leader with a reputation as an electrifying speaker and fervent advocate.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part I This link opens in a new windowDiscover the background of the ideas and cultures that have defined Indigenous societies, tribal organization, and Indian-white relations. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882-1986 This link opens in a new windowDatabase centered on activities of Indian Rights Association. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
- Making of America This link opens in a new windowA digital library of primary sources in American social history.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine This link opens in a new windowPrimary source materials from the long nineteenth century revealing the rapid acceleration of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge and covering every aspect of science. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents focused on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late-eighteenth to the early twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective.
More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY - ProQuest British Parliamentary Papers Collection, 18th-21st Centuries This link opens in a new windowThe Parliamentary Papers empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.
- Sabin Americana This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the contents of a legendary bibliography covering every aspect of the history and culture of the Americas.More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery, Parts 1-4 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on all aspects of the phenomenon of slavery and its abolition in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Student Activism This link opens in a new windowUnique and essential primary sources documenting the history of student organizing in the United States.More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
- U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection This link opens in a new windowAn ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress.
- Women’s Studies Archive: Issues and Identities This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents from the 19th and 20th centuries covering the social, political, and professional aspects of women’s lives and spanning multiple regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training: Oral History CollectionThe world's largest collection of U.S. diplomatic oral history.
- New York Heritage Digital CollectionsProvides a research portal for those interested in the history of the New York State. This database brings together hundreds of digital collections which are freely accessible from libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state.
Skä•noñh
- Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace CenterThis Haudenosaunee Heritage Center is focused on telling the story of the native peoples of Central New York through the lens of the Onondaga Nation.
Skä•noñh is an Onondaga welcoming greeting meaning "Peace and Wellness."
