American Indian Newspapers

American Indian Newspapers presents the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada from 1828 to 2016.

Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. This digital collection provides research opportunities into a range of subjects from an Indigenous perspective, including the civil rights era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation.

Highlights:

• Ak-Chin O’odham Runner (published by the Ak-Chin Indian Community, Maricopa, Arizona)
• Bacone Indian and the Baconian (published by Bacone College, Muskogee, Oklahoma)
• Cherokee Phoenix (Cherokee Advocate) and Cherokee Voices (published in Tahlequah, Oklahoma)
• Hocak Worak (published by the Ho-Chunk Nation, Black River Falls, Wisconsin)
• Hopi Action News (published by the Hopi Tribe in Hopitutskwa, Arizona)
• Native Nevadan (published by the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada)
• Navajo Times (published in Window Rock, Arizona)
• Osage News (published in Pawhuska, Oklahoma)
• Rawhide Press (published by the Spokane Tribe, City of Spokane, Washington)
• Win Awenen Nisitotung (published by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan)

Provider: Adam Matthew
Coverage: 1828-2016 (bulk of material from 1970-2016)