Boarding School Name Authority File(s) include profile information about all identified U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. These files include information such as years of operation, operator information, geocoordinates, related schools. These files also compile all relevant featured boarding school records in an indexed search.

Personal Name Authority File(s) include profile information about individuals who were part of the boarding school system including students, institutional/school personnel, Indian agent, or other key stakeholders who recur in the historic record. These files include information such as Years in System, Biographical Note, Schools Associated with, etc. These files also compile all relevant boarding school records to the specified individual.

Student Indexes provide a listing of all known names of attendance at each school.

Tribal Nation Name Authority File(s) include profile information about the 550+ Tribal Nations in the United States. These files include information such as Schools Associated with, Contact Information, Variant Names as they appear in the historic record. These files compile all relevant boarding school records that correspond to the specified Tribal Nation.

Community Voices include oral history and testimonial recounting of the boarding school past and how it has effected Tribal nations, communities, and people.

Events contain flyers, photos, agendas, minutes regarding community healing sessions. These event entries compile material material and testimony sourced from these events for inclusion in the historic record.

Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project collections contain records of Genoa Indian School. This project is a space for telling the stories of the American Indian children who attended Genoa, the stories of their communities, and the stories of their descendants. This project contains government records of Genoa from various federal and state archives, materials which are often difficult to locate and access. Returning these records to American Indian families and tribes may be an act of archival reconciliation—of bringing history home.

Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center collections contain records of Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This project aims to develop a comprehensive searchable database of Carlisle Indian School resources. Beginning with the school records housed at the U.S. National Archives as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs papers, materials that tell the story of the school and the many thousands of students who were sent there. Desiring to add to the school's history beyond the official documentation, this project seeks partners among those institutions that hold additional records.

National Archives and Records Administration collections contain records of U.S. Indian Federal Boarding Schools. NARA is the nation's record keeper and its mission is to provide public access to Federal Government records in its custody and control. Public access to government records strengthens democracy by allowing Americans to claim their rights of citizenship, hold their government accountable, and understand their history so they can participate more effectively in their government. Records created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) document the U.S. Federal government’s interaction with American Indians are housed at NARA.

Quaker & Special Collections of Haverford College holdings reflect Quaker involvement with Indigenous boarding schools (Indian Boarding Schools) and other educational and missionary efforts by Friends on both an institutional and individual level. Collections include the records of Quaker organizations that supported boarding schools (such as the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee and the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs) as well as papers of Quakers who acted as federal agents, such as Jonathan Richards (1812-1882) and Thomas Wistar (1798-1876).

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College (FHL) holdings reflect Quaker involvement with Indigenous boarding schools (Indian Boarding Schools) on both an institutional and individual level. Collections include the records of Quaker organizations that supported boarding schools (such as the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite) on Indian Affairs and the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (Hicksite)) as well as papers of Quaker teachers (such as Mary Elizabeth Haines (1886-1920)).

American Philosophical Society collections contain photographs from the Pipestone Indian School, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Hampton Institute. The APS Library's extensive collections of the papers of anthropologists and linguists studying Indigenous people also contain some stories related by boarding school survivors. Some partial listings of attendees of particular schools from the late 19th century have also been located, along with occasional correspondence of boarding school teachers or administrators. The APS Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) works actively with Indigenous communities throughout the continent, including providing copies for free to Indigenous researchers and community entities.

Reference Resources contain pathfinders, archives resource guides, and finding aids which compile information about archival collections relevant to boarding school history.