Native American Boarding School Research Resource List

Boarding School Initiatives

US National Archives
- Chilocco papers and school newspaper
- Documentation on Indian schools in the entire US including photographs, enrollment records, census records, student case files
  - Many are only available as physical records but digitization efforts are ongoing to digitize
- School records from National Archives
- The Indian School Journal archive
Kansas Historical Open Content
- Newspapers.com (part of Ancestry.com)
- Haskell school newspapers
- The Indian Leader archive
HathiTrust
- Haskell school newspapers
- The Indian Leader archive
- Other miscellaneous Native newspaper sources that I’ve found while browsing, a lot to look through
Oklahoma State University digital collections
- Chilocco papers
- Oklahoma State University Library Digital Collections
- Chilocco oral histories and other materials
Oklahoma Historical Society
- Chilocco yearbooks, photographs
- Native newspapers with insights into boarding schools
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
- Newspapers, photographs, records, and more
- Carlisle papers
- Small collections of materials from other institutions like Haskell
Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project (Nebraska)
- Records, photographs, newspapers, and much much more
Historic Oregon Newspapers
- University of Oregon
- Chemawa Indian School newspaper archive
Chronicling America, National Digital Newspaper Program
- Some Native newspapers with insights into boarding schools

Continuing the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation project (NEH)
College of St. Benedict (Minnesota) awarded in 2022 (NEH)
University of Minnesota, Morris, including Native school archives awarded in 2023 (NEH)
Intermountain Intertribal Boarding School (Utah) awarded in 2023 (NEH)
National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive

Please see the collaborative Native American Boarding School Resources bibliography Zotero Group, and add sources as you see fit!