Government Documents

General

HOLLIS - the following subject terms may be helpful to search in HOLLIS to find government documents:

  • Government relations

Example search: Subject phrase: Indians of North America -- Government relations

The great majority of U.S. and foreign government documents and the publications of international organizations are housed in the Government Documents/Microforms Collection. Many government documents are not represented in the HOLLIS Catalog.

Hathitrust includes numerous government documents.  In the Catalog Advanced Search, you can use a government department or agency name as author. HathiTrust also offers:

There are also many government documents in the Internet Archive.  There is an Internet Archive subcollection  GovDocs Government Documents which is itself full text searchable and which contains foreign, US, state and local documents.  This may not include all government documents in the Internet Archive.

The Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the U.S (1928-1943)
--Meriam Report of 1928 (titled The Problem of Indian Administration) surveyed conditions on Indian Reservations in 26 states
--Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States was a 41-part report to the US Senate

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
HathiTrust Version 1824-1831
HathiTrust Version 1824-1830, 1836-1908  (1st in list 1809/1870) is really just 1870
ProQuest Version 1830-1845

Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
HathiTrust Version

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Annual Report, 1837-1930, 1951-1967

Department of the Interior Tribal Documents Archive

Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1826-1932

United States: Congressional

Research Guide: U.S. Congressional Publications

Research Guide: Federal Legislative History

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 with American State Papers, 1789-1838 consists of reports, documents and journals of U.S. Congress, including reports originating in Executive Departments.

Guide to American Indian documents in the Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1899 : a project of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law / Steven L. Johnson. NY: Clearwater Pub. Co., 1977, 503 p.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive full text

United States Congressional Serial Set Finding List: Agency Series Found in the Serial Set offers a list of government document series available in the Serial Set arranged by agency.

HeinOnline U.S. Congressional Documents  provides full-text access to the published debates, proceedings and speeches of the U.S. Congress, including the Annals of Congress(1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837), Congressional Globe (1833-1873) and the Congressional Record (1873 to present).

ProQuest Congressional provides indexing for Congressional publications dating from 1790 to the present. Post-1970, full-text access is often available. Publications included are Committee Hearings, House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, Senate Executive Reports, Senate Executive Treaty Documents, Legislative Histories, Serial Set Maps, Serial Set. More information. Research guides are available at the ProQuest Congressional wiki.

United States: Presidential

Research Guide: U.S. Presidential Documents

American President: A Reference Resource (Miller Center, University of Virginia). At the bottom of each president’s page is a section, Scripps Library Reference Resources, with a link to a guide to each president’s papers.

Presidential Papers. This guide lists published papers (public and private) of U.S. presidents and provides information on finding their unpublished papers.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (University of California at Santa Barbara American Presidency Project

FBI

Osage Indian murders (FBI File)
Internet Archive   --  About the Osage Indian Murders

Canada

Canada. Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990