Southeastern Native American Documents, 1763-1842

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast. About the image at left.

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Funded in part by an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant in 1999 and 2000. The addition of documents from the LaFayette-Walker County Library in 2006 is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Cherokee Regional Library System and the Walker County Historical Society as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.