Tomaquag Museum (United States)

The Tomaquag Museum Archival Collection is dedicated to acquiring and preserving cultural materials of historical significance specifically related to Indigenous culture, history, storytelling, ecology, politics and sovereignty. The archive focuses on the Indigenous people of the Northeast United States and Southern New England, primarily the Narragansett/Niantic people, but the museum also collects relevant materials related to Indigenous people throughout the Western Hemisphere. The Archive contains over 100,000 physical items which encompass a wide variety of materials and resources, as well as individual collections. These individual collections include: original, primary documents such as correspondence, business records, photographs, artwork, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, language resources, oral history recordings, audiovisual materials, a small reference library and growing collection of digital assets.