Research Guides: American Indian Studies: Education and Boarding Schools

Primary Sources

American Indian Boarding Schools
Primary source set and teaching guide from the Digital Public Library of America.
Assimilation through Education
Photographs and documents related to Indian boarding schools. From the Library of Congress.
Bureau of Indian Education
Government agency that oversees 183 K-12 and two secondary schools.
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
Digitized research materials from the National Archives and other repositories, including Dickinson College, Cumberland County Historical Society, and others.
Indian School Journal
Digitized issues of a magazine published by students at the United States Indian Training School in Chilocco, Oklahoma Territory, 1904-1980.
The Indigenous Digital Archive
Over 500,000 archival documents about Santa Fe Indian School and others, all kinds of boarding school records, yearbooks, and letters.