Guides: FSEM 100: The First Americans: Accessing Federal Documents

Bureau of American Ethnography Series

Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports and Bulletins
Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports and Bulletins contain detailed information about American Indian culture, folklore and languages for many North American tribes. Search by Title (which often indexes the name of the Indian Tribe) or by looking through the Table of Contents of all the bulletins to look for your specific tribe.
Stetson owns print copies of both the Annual Reports and Bulletins. To access these items please make an appointment with a librarian as they are located with other rare/delicate materials in the "cage".
Bureau of American Ethnology on the Internet Archive
Some, but not all, of the Bureau's reports and bulletins have been digitized and put online by various libraries.

Step 1. Click the "Catalog" tab on the library's homepage and then click "Advanced Search".

Step 2. Consider using the following subject terms to find Federal documents that discuss Native Americans.

Subject Terms:

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Indian Division

United States. Indian Trade Dept.

You can search all three subjects at once by recreating the screenshot of the search below.