Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
Native Americans
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Archives & Museums

National Museum of the American Indian [http://www.nmai.si.edu/]


Digital Collections

Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee [online]. Knoxville: McClung Museum, n.d. [cited 30 May 2002]. Available from: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/archaeol/archaeol.htm.
Includes images of artifacts and excavation sites.

GALILEO [online]. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 1995- . Available from: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/.
After selecting Digital Library of Georgia, browse the site for access to the following collections.
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1763-1842 includes 2000 digital images of original documents and visual images dated from mid-eighteenth century to 1842.
Georgia Historic Newspapers offers access to the Cherokee Phoenix.

Kapler, Charles J., comp. and ed. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904. Available online: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/intro.htm.


Microform Collections

Records of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835. Washington : National Archives, 1952. 14 microfilm reels.


Selected Books

Dale, Edward Everett, and Gaston Litton, eds. Cherokee Cavaliers: Forty Years of Cherokee History as Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1995. Originally published in 1939.

Grant, C. L., ed. Letters, Journals, and Writings of Benjamin Hawkins. Savannah, Ga.: Beehive Press, 1980.

Moulton, Gary E., ed. The Papers of Chief John Ross. 2 vols. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Perdue, Theda, ed. Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1983. 243p.

Phillips, Joyce B., and Paul Gary Phillips, eds. The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1998. 584p.

Williams, Samuel Cole, ed. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country. Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1972. 540p.



Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources