History of the Plains Indians: Videos and websites

Documentary film. Examines experiences of the occupation of Alcatraz island, 1969-1971.

Documentary film that chronicles a movement and recounts the life of Dennis Banks, the Native American who co-founded the American Indian Movement (1968).

Video recording of a speech made at the 40th Annual Symposium on the American Indian (4/14/2012) at the Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

World War I, when Choctaw Indians were recruited for duty as communication specialists.

Documentary film. Devastating effects of western expansion on five native American nations. (Archival photographs and historical documents)

Biography and Documentary film. Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Documentary film. Looks at Hollywood's depiction of Native Americans and how it has influenced the world's understanding and misunderstanding of Natives.

Recorded speech at the 24th Annual Symposium of the American Indian, April 12,1996 at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

a historical milestone in Native American filmmaking. Released in 1998 and based on a short-story collection by Sherman Alexie, it was the first wide-release feature film written, directed, coproduced, and acted by Native Americans.

These records offer materials about many Indian tribes in the Oklahoma territory.

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma State University Library, this site offers articles about Oklahoma history.

This serials project works with specific magazine publications dating between 1890-1910.

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Gateway is an online repository of Oklahoma History. This repository of newspaper pages, cover the span of years from the 184s to the 1920s. Researchers can browse by collection, location, resource type, dates, or publication title. Resource types include: photographs, newspapers, maps, some books and postcards.

The Indian-Pioneer Papers oral history collection ranges from 1861 to 1936. It includes typescripts of interviews conducted during the 1930s by government workers with thousands of Oklahomans regarding the settlement of Oklahoma and Indian territories, as well as the condition and conduct of life in the region.

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, these seven volumes provide U.S. Government treaties, laws, and executive orders related to Native American Indian tribes dating from 1777-1970. These seven volumes are also available for "library use only" at the John Vaughan Library, NSU Tahlequah campus, on the 2nd floor in Special Collections.

Select documents from the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The NARA documents for Oklahoma Statehood congressional records.

Official site of the National Archives.

Founded in 1898, the Oklahoma Historical Society offers impressive collections of historical information about Oklahoma that are researchable online.

Focused site for research.

Voices of Oklahoma offers oral histories of famous Oklahomans and ordinary citizens.