American Indian History

General Guides

George Remsburg Papers, 1891-1941Remsburg identified all of the important Indian village sites of the Kaw, Kickapoo and other prominent Indian tribes in Eastern Kansas.

Indian Mission Schools, 1837-1879 (MF)
Indian Missions and Missionaries: a bibliography
Johnston Lykins PapersLykins helped found the Potawatomi and Shawnee Baptist Indian Missions in the present-day Johnson County, Kansas area.
Isaac McCoy Papers (MF) partially microfilmedBaptist Missionary and proponent of the Indian Removal Act
Jotham Meeker Papers,1825-1864 (MF)Missionary to the Ottawa and Potawatomi who published Native American language materials
John G. Pratt Papers, 1834-1899 (MF)Missionary to the Delaware Indians

Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940
James Burnett Abbott, 1815-1899 (MF)Shawnee Indian Agent, 1861-1866
William Clark Papers, 1807-1855 (MF)Records of Superintendent of Indian Affairs in St. Louis, commonly called the "Clark Papers" after William Clark, who was superintendent from 1807-1838. This collection documents the removal of tribes east of the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory, which included present-day Kansas.
Samuel Johnson Crawford, 1867-1910Kansas Governor Samuel Crawford resigned from office in 1868 to organize the 19th Kansas Cavalry and join General Sheridan on his winter campaign.
Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1907-1939
Records of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813-1878, microfilm rolls MF 6903 - MF 7010, National Archives microfilm publication M856

First Cherokee Regiment Day Book, Nov. 10, 1862-Mar. 31, 1863Journal of Captain Robert Parks, Company B, of Colonel Stand Watie's Confederate Indian regiment