An incomplete list of collections with Indigenous content include:

• George Hunt “Kwakiutl” manuscripts (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw), donated to Columbia by Franz Boas
• William Beynon and Henry Tate manuscripts (Tsimshian), also donated to Columbia by Franz Boas
• Boas's field notes, dictionary, and grammar for the Chinook language
• a set of Pliny Earle Goddard Field notebooks (Mescalero Apache; Pomo; Maple Creek; Mad River; Coquille; Chasta Costa; Tututni; Navajo; Sarsi)
• Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons collection (Hopi)
• John Howard Payne papers (Cherokee)
• audio field recordings of songs in the Speech Laboratory Archives collection (Navajo, Tewa, Hopi, Kiowa, Arapaho, Comanche, Cadoo)
• many colonial-era collections such as Philipse-Gouverneur family papers (Wappinger) and the Van Schaak family papers (Mohawk)
• University Archives collections documenting faculty involvement with Indigenous people and materials, including the Council for Research in the Social Sciences records and the Council for Research in the Humanities records.

This is not a comprehensive list, and it will be updated as we find and describe additional relevant collections. We are currently planning a project to identify tribal affiliations and potentially culturally sensitive materials across our 3,000+ archival collections. We share this partial list to make it easier for tribal officers, researchers, enrolled members, and the general public to find material that may be relevant to a given tribe, nation or community. 

All our efforts around Native American and First Nations archival material are guided by the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, and we are therefore committed to careful relationship and trust building, and to understanding the cultural sensitivity of the texts.