Native American Identity in U.S. Newspapers, 1820-1890

1820-1890 newspaper articles analyzing representations of Native American identity, compiled by John M. Coward of Rutgers University. The dataset likely contains textual excerpts or articles from historical U.S. newspapers. Its specific size, format, and column structure are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical media bias and representation patterns (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Train NLP models on historical text for sentiment or topic classification (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Study the evolution of social identity constructs over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on paperswithcode
• Authored by a researcher from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Focuses on a specific historical period (1820-1890)

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

John M. Coward, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Time Range

1820-1890