Historians, scholars, and readers with an interest in Native American history may want to check out the Indigenous Digital Archive (IDA). Launched in 2017, this ongoing project enables visitors to "explore the history of US government Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th centuries." Also known as residential schools, these government-run boarding schools were created to forcibly assimilate young Native Americans into mainstream American culture by separating them from their own traditions, cultural practices, and languages. The archive provides access to more than 500,000 primary source documents related to these schools, including letters, school records, yearbooks, and more. Readers can browse the IDA by categories such as school names, tribes, themes, and series, and they can also search the collections by keyword. Directed by archivist Dr. Anna Naruta-Moya, the IDA is a collaboration between the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, the New Mexico State Library's Tribal Libraries Program, and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. It is supported by funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and from the Knight Foundation.