The digital medium provides a variety of useful tools to analyze historical data. The newspapers contained within the Archive have been transcribed and digitized to allow for sorting, browsing, searching, and analyzing the texts.

Visualizations:

  • Text Analysis Dashboard: Interactive visualizations of the newspaper corpus, including word frequency charts, bigram and trigram analysis, a clickable word cloud, keywords-in-context search, and document statistics. Analyze patterns in language and discourse across 94 archival documents from 1972-1973.
  • Text Analysis: Methods and Data Pipeline: A description of the corpus, data processing scripts, visualization techniques, and limitations behind the text analysis dashboard.

Maps:

  • AIM Protests and Chapters: This interactive map plots AIM protests and significant events (1970-1975) alongside AIM chapter locations throughout the United States. Toggle between layers to explore different types of locations.

Browse:

  • Archive: The digitized newspaper collection provides access to newspaper articles covering the Trail of Broken Treaties and related events from October 1972 through March 1973. Browse by publication type, date, or subject.