The Indigenous Digital Archive provides digital access to key archival series from the US National Archives and to other important historical documents such as yearbooks from a number of Indian Schools. This content is not cataloged, so the Indigenous Digital Archive has used machine methods to make documents searchable by text and browsable by key themes such as by School, by Tribe, Pueblo or Nation, or by archival Series or Roll.
Topics
The documents in the Indigenous Digital Archive have been tagged with key themes or topics using a mixture of machine learning and crowdsourcing. We have highlighted some of these types of topic below.
Collections
Navigating the site
Content on the site can be discovered both by:
* Topic: machine or crowdsourced topics that group documents by theme. These themes also include archival Series and Rolls.
* Collection: collections based around archival Series and Roll.
Collections may include additional documents that are currently being processed. These documents may not yet have thematic tags/topics or searchable text.
Image credits
The images above are taken from DBPedia and have a CC-0 license.
The photograph of pupils at Carlisle Indian School is from the US National Archives NAID: 519136
The banner image of the Cherokee Asylum is from the US National Archives NAID: 313190142