One activity for college (or advanced high school) classrooms is to have students track down documents online that contain specific instances of Native American enslavement, servitude, indenture, captivity, etc. Below is a link to a sample listing of where students might find sources, but this is just a starting place.

Listing of sample places to find primary sources related to Native American slavery

Students could then write a paper or a story about the person or people they find. Individuals who have not yet been entered into the Stolen Relations database could be submitted for such addition, or students could be trained to enter the record themselves.

In addition to the listing above, students could also be encouraged to conduct research at local historical societies and archives for the following kinds of documents that often include enslaved Native Americans:

• probate records (inventories, wills)
• deeds / records of purchase and sale
• church records (baptisms, membership)
• account books and financial records of merchants and individuals
• diaries and personal correspondence and papers
• newspaper advertisements (for sale and self-emancipated/runaway)