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• Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
• Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians -- Government relations
• Algonquian Indians -- Government relations
• Apache Indians -- Government relations
• Aztecs -- Government relations
• Brotherton Indians -- Government relations
• Cherokee Indians -- Government relations
• Cherokee Nation -- Government relations
• Cheyenne Indians -- Government relations
• Chickasaw Indians -- Government relations
• Choctaw Indians -- Government relations
• Creek Indians -- Government relations
• Crow Indians -- Government relations
• Dakota Indians -- Government relations
• Delaware Indians -- Government relations
• Eskimos -- Government relations
• Five Civilized Tribes -- Government relations
• Hawaiians -- Government relations
• Hopi Indians -- Government relations
• Huron Indians -- Government relations
• Indians -- Government relations
• Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Government relations
• Indians of Mexico -- Government relations
• Indians of North America -- Government relations
• Indians of South America -- Government relations
• Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
• Inuit -- Canada -- Government relations
• Inuit -- Greenland -- Government relations
• Iroquois Indians -- Government relations
• Kalispel Indians -- Government relations
• Karen (Southeast Asian people) -- Government relations
• Kiowa Indians -- Government relations
• Klamath Indians -- Government relations
• Kootenai Indians -- Government relations
• Lumbee Indians -- Government relations
• Māori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations
• Métis -- Government relations
• Mayas -- Government relations
• Menominee Indians -- Government relations
• Micmac Indians -- Maritime Provinces -- Government relations
• Mormon Church -- Government relations
• Narragansett Indians -- Government relations
• Navajo Indians -- Government relations
• Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations
• Oglala Indians -- Government relations
• Ojibwa Indians -- Government relations
• Paiute Indians -- Government relations
• Pawnee Indians -- Government relations
• Penobscot Indians -- Government relations
• Ponca Indians -- Government relations
• Potawatomi Indians -- Government relations
• Pueblo Indians -- Government relations
• Quapaw Indians -- Government relations
• Quinault Indians -- Government relations
• Religious minorities -- Turkey -- Government relations
• Salish Indians -- Government relations
• Seminole Indians -- Government relations
• Seneca Indians -- Government relations
• Shoshoni Indians -- Government relations
• Sotho (African people) -- Government relations
• Spokane Indians -- Government relations
• Taiwan -- Government relations
• Umatilla Indians -- Government relations
• Wapato Indians -- Government relations
• Winnebago Indians -- Government relations
• Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- Government relations
• Yakama Indians -- Government relations
• Yankton Indians -- Government relations
• Yaqui Indians -- Government relations
• Zuni Indians -- Government relations

• Venus Oceanica (New York: Oceanica Research Press, 1935), ed. by R. Burton, contrib. by B. Schidlof, Herbert Basedow, and Walter E. Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tropic Days, by E. J. Banfield (Gutenberg text)
• A matter of justice (Australian National University Press ;, 1978), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invasion and resistance : Aboriginal-European relations on the North Queensland frontier, 1861-1897 (Australian National University Press, 1982), by Noel Loos (page images at HathiTrust)
• White man got no dreaming : essays, 1938-1973 (Australian National University Press ;, 1979), by W. E. H. Stanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kulinma, listening to Aboriginal Australians (Australian National University Press ;, 1978), by H. C. Coombs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aboriginal policy and practice (Australian National University Press, 1970), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam in ochre; inside aboriginal Australia. (Praeger, 1953), by Colin Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Challenge of northern regions (Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1991), by Sally Roberts, Peter Jull, and Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remote possibilities : the Aboriginal domain and the administrative imagination (North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, 1992), by Tim Rowse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Will the circle be unbroken? : cycles of survival for indigenous Australians (North Australia Research Unit, 1998), by P. L. Dodson and Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Visible and invisible : Aboriginal people in the economy of Northern Australia (North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University :, 1993), by G. J. Crough, Nugget Coombs Forum for Indigenous Studies, and Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back in the stone age; the natives of central Australia (Angus & Robertson, limited, 1936), by Charles Chewings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian nationhood and outback indigenous peoples (Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit], 1991), by Peter Jull and Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aborigines of central Australia, with vocabularies of the dialects spoken by the natives of Lake Amadeus and of the Western Territory of Central Australia. (C.E. Bristow, Govt. Print., 1891), by W. H. Willshire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outcasts in white Australia (Australian National University Press, 1971), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The destruction of aboriginal society (Australian National University Press, 1970), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altered states? : federalism, sovereignty and self-government (Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1992), by Christine Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary register of Australian tribes and hordes (American Philosophical Society, 1938), by Daniel Sutherland Davidson and American Philosophical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The remote aborigines (Australian National University Press, 1971), by C. D. Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collected papers (1896-1905) ([v.p., 1896), by R. H. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man tracks (Angus and Robertson, 1900), by Ion Llewellyn Idriess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les institutions des primitifs Australiens. (M. Lamertin, 1922), by Nadine Ivanitzky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the aborigines of Australia. (Published for the Ethnological Society by J. Murray, 1865), by Augustus Oldfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tropic days (T. F. Unwin, ltd., 1919), by E. J. Banfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oceania (F. Vallardi, 1900), by G. Pennesi, F. Musone, and Gabriele Grasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Aborigines, together with the proceedings of committee, minutes of evidence, and appendices. (J. Ferres, Govt. Printer, 1859), by Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Council. Select Committee on the Aborigines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. (Melbourne, 1861), by Victoria. Central Board for Aborigines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Sexualleben der Australier und Ozeanier. (Leipziger Verlag, 1908), by B. Schidlof (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De mensch van den australischen bodem, of De Neen-Neen's en de Ja-Ja's. Een Studie van vergelijkende volkenkunde. (J. Sterringa, 1898), by Élie Reclus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty years among the blacks of Australia; the life and adventures of William Buckley, the runaway convict. (Routledge, 1904), by William T. Pyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Towards a National Aboriginal Congress : extracts from a report to the Hon. Clyde Holding, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, April 1984 (The Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 1986), by H. C. Coombs and Australian National University. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Economic and social issues affecting the northwest tribes : field hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, August 12, 2010 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England (Pilgrim Press, 1899), by William DeLoss Love (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peace with the Apaches of New Mexico and Arizona (Territorial Press, 1964), by United States. Board of Indian Commissioners and Vincent Colyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México : códice en geroglíficos mexicanos y en lenguas castellana y azteca, existente en la biblioteca del Exmo. señor duque de Osuna (Madrid : Imprenta de Manuel G. Hernández, San Miguel, 23, bajo, 1878., 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yntemoca yntlacamecayo, yn tlahtoque yn teteuhctin yn ompa tlaca ypan altepetl culhuacan yhuan nican tlahtoque teteuhctin yn ipan in tlaca huey altepetl mexico tenochtitlan: Oquitlallitiaque yn tlahtoque teteuhctin culhuacan (in Nahuatl), by Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin (Gutenberg ebook)

• Claim of Brotherton tribe of Indians. : Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report in reference to the claim of the Brotherton tribe of Indians. ([publisher not identified], 1855), by United States Department of the Interior and United States. Congress 1854-1855) House (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letter from John Ross, The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, to a Gentleman of Philadelphia (1838), by John Ross
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• List of Cherokee General Fund Warrants Unpaid August 20, 1898, by Cherokee Nation
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• Memorial of the Eastern Cherokees Submitting a Certain Proposed Amendment to the Indian Appropriation Bill (Washington: GPO, 1907), by Eastern Cherokees in the Indian Territory, contrib. by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
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• Reply of the Delegates of the Cherokee Nation to the Demands of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, May, 1866 (Washington: Gibson Bros., printers, 1866), by Cherokee Nation
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• The Cherokee Question: Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President of the United States, June 15, 1866, by Dennis N. Cooley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorial of the Delegates of the Cherokee Nation to the President of the United States, and the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress (Washington Chronicle Print, 1866), by Cherokee Nation
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• Reply of the Delegates of the Cherokee Nation to the Pamphlet of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, 1866), by Cherokee Nation
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• Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1863), by Confederate States of America Bureau of Indian Affairs
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• Letter from John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee nation of Indians, in answer to inquiries from a friend regarding the Cherokee affairs with the United States. Followed by a copy of the protest of the Cherokee delegation, laid before the Senate and House of representatives at the city of Washington, on the 21st day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. ([Washington, 1836), by John Ross and Oklahoma Cherokee Nation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Turney, of Tennessee, on the bill to suppress Indian hostilities. (s.n., 1838), by Hopkins Lacy Turney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select Committee of the Senate upon the late resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. (Dutton and Wentworth, 1831), by Massachusetts Senate and Alexander Hill Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Sprague, of Maine : delivered in the Senate of the United States, 16th April, 1830, in reply to Messrs. White, McKinley, and Forsyth, upon the subject of the removal of the Indians. (Pub. at the Office of the National Journal, 1830), by Peleg Sprague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of John Ross and others, representatives of the Cherokee nation of Indians, on the subject of the existing difficulties in that nation, and their relations with the United States. (Ritchie & Heiss, 1846), by Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relief of the heirs of the Eastern Cherokee Indians. (Govt. print. off., 1916), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• In re claim of Harvey M. Dickson, William T. Mason, the Dickson-Mason lumber company, and D.L. Boyd, against the United States. (Gov't print. off., 1908), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinion on the right of the state of Georgia to extend her laws over the Cherokee nation. (F. Lucas, jr., 1830), by William Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee Indians. ([Washington, 1838), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Cherokees... (Gov't print. off., 1907), by Charles Poe, Samuel A. Putman, and 2d session United States. 59th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moses Whitmire, trustee for the freedmen of the Cherokee nation, v. the Cherokee nation and the United States. (Govt. print. off., 1909), by United States. Dept. of justice, George M. Anderson, Moses Whitmire, Cherokee Nation, and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. James Graham, of North Carolina, on the bill making an appropriation to prevent and suppress Indian hostilities. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1838), by James Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Payment of interest in Cherokee judgment. (Govt. print. off., 1916), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Andrew Taylor, to the Hon. Edwin Hardin and Benjamin H. Brewster, commissioners under the Cherokee treaty of 1835, now in session in Washington city. ([Washington?, 1846), by Andrew Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to the Hon. George E. Badger, of the United States Senate, in vindication of the rights of the Cherokees in North Carolina to the neutral lands (W. H. Moore, printer, 1854), by James Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee reservations. ([Washington, 1858), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Governor's message to the General assembly of the state of Georgia, at the opening of the extra session, May 23, 1825, with a part of the documents accompanying the same ... (Camak & Ragland, printers, 1825), by Georgia. Governor (1823-1827 : George Michael Troup) and George Michael Troup (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. 1684--S. 1724--S. 1728 : hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 1684, To declare that the United States holds certain Chilocco Indian school lands ... S. 1724, To authorize the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to design and construct hydroelectric power facilities at W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam; S. 1728, To authorize the Cherokee Nation ... October 23, 1985, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply of the Cherokee National Council to the propositions of the Dawes Commission in regard to change of government for the Cherokee Nation (Gibson Bros., 1894), by Oklahoma Cherokee Nation and United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the select committee appointed on the 17th ultimo, to consider of certain treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and the Articles of Agreement and Cession entered into on the 24th April, 1802, between the United States and the state of Georgia; accompanied with resolutions making appropriations for carrying into effect the Articles of Agreement and Cession entered into between the United States and the state of Georgia, on the 24th of April, 1802, and for other purposes. (G.P.O., 1822), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Appointed to Consider of Certain Treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians and United States. Congress 1821-1822). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Senate of the United States, February 22, 1830. (G.P.O., 1830), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Hugh Lawson White, and United States. Congress 1829-1830). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, and a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the Cherokee Indians (G.P.O.], 1848), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, James K. Polk, United States. War Dept, United States. President (1845-1849 : Polk), United States Office of Indian Affairs, and United States. Congress 1847-1848). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Cherokee Indians (G.P.O.], 1886), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. Dept. of the Interior, and United States. Congress 1885-1886). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee government : message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House ... of the 3d instant, in relation to the formation of a new government by the Cherokee tribe of Indians, within the states of North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, &c. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828), by United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams), United States. War Dept, and United States. Congress 1827-1828). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rep. no. 683 (Ritchie & Heiss, printers, 1846), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Jacob Thompson, and United States. Congress 1845-1846). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the United States government's dealings with some of the Indian tribes (Roberts, 1895), by Helen Hunt Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws, decisions, and regulations affecting the work of the commissioner to the five civilized tribes, 1893-1906, together with maps showing classification of lands in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations, and recording districts, railroads, and principal towns of the Indian Territory. (Government Printing Office, 1906), by United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• A faithful history of the Cherokee tribes of Indians from the period of our first intercourse with them, down to the present time. The reasons and considerations which produced a separation of the tribe at an early period; organizing a nation east and a nation west of the Mississippi River. With full exposition of the causes which led to their subsequent division into three parties and involved them in their present deplorable condition and of the nature and extent of their present claims. (Printed by J. E. Dow, 1846), by Samuel C. Stambaugh, M. St. Clair Clarke, George W. Paschal, and Amos Kendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgia and the Supreme Court : an examination of the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January term, 1832 : delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Samuel A. Worcester, plaintiff in error, versus the state of Georgia. (Augusta [Ga.] : [publisher not identified], 1832., 1832), by Alfred Cumming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cherokee question : report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President of the United States, June 15, 1866 : being supplementary to the report of the commissioners appointed by the President to treat with the Indians south of Kansas, and which assembled at Fort Smith, Ark., in September, 1865. (G.P.O., 1866), by United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee Indians, North Carolina : hearing before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs ... Eighty-fourth Congress, first session pursuant to H. Res. 30, to authorize the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to make investigtions into any matter within its jurisdiction, and for other purposes. September 17, 1955. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1955), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee neutral lands controversy (The Girard Press, 1931), by Lula Lemmon Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Cherokee delegation of their mission to Washington in 1868 and 1869. ([n.p., 1869), by Oklahoma Cherokee Nation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of a delegation from the Cherokee Indians. : Presented to Congress January 18, 1831. (publisher not identified, 1831), by Cherokee Nation, Henry Dearborn, William Shorey Coodey, John Ridge, Richard Taylor, United States. Congress 1830-1831), and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cherokee claims ([publisher not identified], 1830), by Robert Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws, decisions, and regulations affecting the work of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1906 : together with maps showing classification of lands in the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole nations, and recording districts, railroads, and principal towns of the Indian Territory (Dept. of the Interior, 1906), by United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, United States, and United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cherokee Nation of Indians. (1887 N 05 / 1883-1884 (pages 121-378)), by Charles C. Royce (Gutenberg ebook)

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