Indigenous History in the Borderlands

The materials located on this page contain resources external to the University of Arizona. The repositories listed include both digital and physical collections that explore Indigenous communities in the U.S./Mexico borderlands and beyond. You can find additional resources in the American Indian Studies guide and the Arizona's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, & Two-Spirit People guide. 

Arizona Memory Project

A project supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records division of the Secretary of State that works to provide access to primary sources of many Arizona archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions. 

Library of Congress Native American Resources in Local History and Geology

A series of guides from the Library of Congress that highlight Indigenous history throughout the U.S.

Indigenous Digital Archive

An online resource that compiles digital archival resources for students, educators, researchers, and families. 

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

A cultural institution that offers information about Pueblo life and culture in New Mexico over a large span of time. 

American Indian Treaties Portal

An online resource from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that offers information and analyses of Indigenous treaties. 

Tribal Writers Digital Library

An online library from the Sequoyah National Research Center that offers a trove of texts from Indigenous writers, including out-of-print materials. 

American Philosophical Society Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

An organization that offers an extensive number of manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings, and highlights a wide range of Indigenous cultures.

The Bob Fitch Photography Archive: New Mexico Navajo Protest, 1971

A digital collection of photographs from Stanford Libraries that showcases Bob Fitch's photographic documentation of the New Mexico Navajo Protests in 1974. 

American Indian Digital History Project

A digital project that works to preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, manuscripts, and other archival materials across all of North America.

Amerind Museum

An Arizona museum dedicated to fostering and supporting knowledge about U.S. Indigenous communities. 

Heard Museum

An Arizona museum dedicated to preserving and advancing Indigenous art, specifically from Indigenous communities of the Southwest. 

Project STAND

An online resource dedicated to assisting researchers, archivists, and student activists in locating materials about the histories of student organizing, specifically for historically underdocumented student populations. 

Through Our Parent's Eyes

An online resource offering research materials and teaching resources about the history and culture of many Southern Arizona ethnic groups.