Indigenous Peoples Studies

Photographs of North American Indians, 1850-1900: An AAS Illustrated Inventory

This illustrated inventory highlights a small collection of nineteenth-century photographs of Native Americans. The collection was compiled as a resource decades ago, long before the creation of the Society’s online catalog, and represents just a fraction of the resources documenting Native people in AAS collections

Native Performances of Christianity

In this program, William Hart will discuss with David Silverman the significance and meaning of eighteenth-century Mohawks who performed Christianity and why. Hart’s findings, published in his 2020 book, “For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country, indicate that the old soubriquet of “faithful Mohawks” is no longer useful.

Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literature
To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State
Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Native American Whalemen and the World: The Contingency of Race
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England