This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from 1960–1989.

A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.

The papers document Felix S. Cohen's professional career as a civil servant, private attorney, law professor, and author. From 1933-57, Cohen drafted legislation for the Department of Interior, most notably the Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. In 1939 he headed the Indian Law Survey, which compiled all federal laws regarding Native Americans. He edited the summary of that survey, known as The Handbook of Federal Indian Law.

The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, writings, memoranda and reports, research materials, and miscellanea, documenting the personal life and professional career of John Collier. His service with the American Indian Defense Association (A.I.D.A.), as United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and as a teacher and author is detailed. Correspondence files include materials with leading political, literary, and social figures.

Correspondence, writings, audio and moving image recordings, photographic materials, subject files, printed ephemera, art work, and other materials created or collected by Richard Erdoes (1912-2008), author of more than a dozen books about American Indian life.

The papers consist of correspondence, articles, reports, notes, lectures, memorabilia, and other papers of Charles Templeman Loram, educator and professor of education in South Africa and at Yale. He was a participant in seminars and conferences on the American Indian and Pacific Islanders, and there is a group of papers of the Boulder Seminar (1937) on American Indians. Included are papers on the Navajos, Hawaiians, and Indian missions.

The Luhan papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks and personal papers documenting the life and work of Mabel Dodge Luhan.Series I, Correspondence, consists chiefly of incoming letters from family, friends, fans and publishers. Luhan's activities and relationships in New York and New Mexico, with artists, writers, labor leaders and Native American Indians, are well documented.

Correspondence, writings and a few essays by others on ecology, Indians, and Darwinism. The main portion of the correspondence (1943-1958) is with John Collier on the subject of Shepard's last book, The Living Whole. His writings reflect interests in the environment and related scientific subjects, and the papers include both published and unpublished works, some of which relate to American Indians.

The collection consists of eight videotaped recordings of Native American alumni of Yale University, recorded in November 2005 and November 2008, as well as paperwork documenting the project and its purpose. Interview subjects are asked to reflect on their student experiences at Yale University. Questions explore the interview subject's tribal background, experiences at Yale, college activities, perceptions of the University, and present employment.

A collection of United States postage stamps compiled by Meade and Mildred B. Minnigerode on the topic of pioneer life in the United States. Included are stamps illustrating Indians of the Colonial Period, the French and Indian War, and the Western Pioneer Period.

Collection of approximately 570 Western filmscripts, consisting of continuity, cutting and dialogue, shooting scripts, various drafts from initial to final, and in some cases revised versions of the same draft. There are fifteen Tom Mix silent scenarios from 1919 through 1927; four scripts by Zane Grey, including Riders of the Purple Sage (1931); eleven scripts directed by John Ford, including My Darling Clementine (1946), Stagecoach (1938), Fort Apache (1947); five films featuring Gary Cooper.

The James Welch Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, and personal papers documenting the life and work of author James Welch. James Welch is well known for his fiction dealing with the histories and experiences of Native Americans, and the drafts of manuscripts, for novels and other works, together with correspondence and secondary literature, make the Welch papers a valuable resource for research in literary, American, and Native American studies.

Trustee of the Village of Batavia, N.Y., 1902-1903; Justice of the Peace of the Town of Batavia, 1904-1907; District Attorney of the County of Genesee, N.Y.,1908-1916; City historian of the City of Batavia, 1919-); City attorney of the City of Batavia; New York State Attorney for the Tonawanda Nation of the Seneca Indians, 1908-1916 and 1928-1939.

The papers of Hugh Aiken Bayne (1870-1954), a lawyer from Louisiana, include, in Volume I of his memoirs and as a separate typescript, documentation on the submission of the Creek Indians in Alabama. Also included are relations concerning the experiences of his grandfather and great-grandfather in dealing with Indians.

Vols. 62-63 detail the Menominee Indian case, 1908-1956, which covers the history of Federal management of timberlands of the Menomenee Indians of Wisconsin. Vols 79A and 79B discuss the Chippewa National Forest, 1881-1945, which includes the history of Indians in Minnesota and logging operations carried out by the Interior Department in the Cut Foot Sioux District.

Grinnell corresponded with many Indian leaders, and individuals and organizations involved with Indian affairs, and became an authority on the Blackfeet, Ceyennes, and Pawnees. Presidents Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt appointed Grinnell to negotiate with Indian tribes. In addition to his letterbooks for the period 1886-1929 are five folders filed under the heading "Indians."

Includes papers of Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page (1861-1943), Alfred Cox and Emma Wickham Roe and sister of daughter of Mary Wickham Roe, relating to her missionary activities on behalf of American indians. From about 1903 to 1913 she served as Field Secretary for the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America, and was ithe author of In Camp and Tepee (1915) which describes its work. There is an important file of letters for the period 1900-1916.

For many years, the Roes labored to improve Indian rights to land and education and travelled often to Washington, D.C. to promote Indian causes and Indian special interest groups. While lecturing at Yale in 1906, Mary Roe met henry Cloud, a Winnebago Indian, whom the Roes adopted; Cloud graduated from yale and married Elizabeth Bender, a Chippewa. Related material can be found in the Page and Wickham Family Papers.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings and other papers relating to Granville and James Stuart and the early history of Montana. Much of the correspondence is dated 1916-1918 and consists of incoming letters and typewritten carbon copies of outgoing letters relating to information on Montana history, and Native American vocabularies.

Correspondence and subject files kept by George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) as founder and chairman of the Yale Department of Drama, 1925-33. The collection includes three folders of correspondence relating to American Indian culture and art, 1929-1933, in which the major correspondent is Oqua Pi, an Indian artist.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks, clippings, printed matter, which relate to Ellsworth Huntington's professional career and his activities for a number of professional organizations with which he was associated. Beginning in 1910, Huntington spent five seasons in association with the Carnegie Foundation Desert Lab studying the deserts of the southwestern US and Mexico.

For many years, Prudden spent his summers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, exploring and mapping sites of Indian dwellings. There are eleven folders of anthropological correspondence, 1896-1924, mainly with his guides, the Wetherill brothers. They were also archaeologists, and Richard Wetherill (1858-1910) discovered the Mesa Verde ruins in Colorado and named the "basket-maker" culture. He was murdered by a Navajo Indian. Prudden was the author of several papers and a book on Indians.

The subjects for Tucker's portraiture have come principally from Native American populations. These include members of the Onondaga Nation, Shinnecock Indian Nation, Navajo Nation, and Montaukett Indians. Tucker has also documented Native American artists from pueblos throughout the southwestern United States.This collection documents the career of Toba Pato Tucker as a portrait photographer, circa 1950-2006, with the bulk of the collection from 1977 to 2000.

Mainly professional papers concerning Graves' work as a forester and first dean of Yale School of Forestry. His diaries and photographs document a trip to Alaska in 1914-15, including some material on Eskimos and notes on Indians.