Primary Sources - United States: Native/Indigenous Americans

The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars takes readers back to the late 19th century to show how newspaper reporting impacted attitudes toward the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.Emphasizing primary sources and eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on eight watershed events between 1862 and 1891aethe Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Flight of the Nez Perce, the Cheyenne Outbreak, the Trial of Standing Bear, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and its aftermath. Each chapter examines an individual event, analyzing the balance and accuracy of the newspaper coverage and how the reporting of the time reinforced stereotypes about Native Americans

A Sioux Indian describes his childhood experiences and training as a warrior in the 1870s and 1880s until he was taken to live in the white man's world at age fifteen.

Native Voices is a source reader that covers the entire span of Native American history.

Anglo woman Mary Butler Renville and Dakota husband John Baptiste Renville's accounts of the Dakota War (1862).