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Bibliography
• List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, With Index to Authors and Titles by Smithsonian Institution (HTML at Smithsonian)
• Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (Washington : G.P.O., 1877) by William Henry Jackson (page images at canadiana.org)
Biography
• Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles Alexander Eastman (Gutenberg text)
• Lives of Celebrated American Indians (Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849) by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (page images at canadiana.org)
• Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet : With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841) by Benjamin Drake (page images at canadiana.org)
• Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (1833 edition) by Black Hawk (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation (1847) by George Copway (page images at canadiana.org)
History
General
• Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of This Continent (1784) by Anthony Benezet (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington (Gutenberg text)
• The Indian Races of North and South America (1864 edition) by Charles De Wolf Brownell (page images at MOA)
• Indian Life and Indian History By an Indian Author (Boston: A. Colby, 1858) by George Copway (page images at canadiana.org)
• Indian Migrations, As Evidenced By Language: Comprising the Huron-Cherokee Stock, the Dakota Stock, the Algonkins, the Chahta-Muskoki Stock, the Moundbuilders, the Iberians (1883) by Horatio Hale (page images at canadiana.org)
Early Theories of the Origins of the North American Indians
• New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (first edition, 1797) by Benjamin Smith Barton (page images at canadiana.org)
• An Essay on the Propagation of the Gospel: In Which There Are Numerous Facts and Arguments Adduced to Prove That Many of the Indians in America Are Descended From the Ten Tribes (1801) by Charles Crawford (page images at canadiana.org)
• View of the Hebrews: or The Tribes of Israel in America (second edition, 1825) by Ethan Smith (HTML at Primenet)
• Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper, 1871) by John Dennison Baldwin (page images at canadiana.org)
• Discovery of Stone Implements in Glacial Drift in North America (1878) by Thomas Belt (page images at canadiana.org)
• Asiatic Tribes in North America (c. 1881) by John Campbell (page images at canadiana.org)
• On the Origin of the Native Races of America: A Dissertation By Hugo Grotius; A Treatise of Foreign Languages and Unknown Islands By Peter Albinus (1884) by Hugo Grotius and Peter Albinus, trans. by Edmund Goldsmid (page images at canadiana.org)
Chronological Accounts
• Jesuit Missions Among the Cayugas, From 1656 to 1684 (1876) by Charles Hawley (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Iroquois Trail, Or, Footprints of the Six Nations : in Customs, Traditions and History, By W.M. Beauchamp; in Which Are Included David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1892) by William M. Beauchamp and David Cusick (page images at canadiana.org)
• Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts: and Sketches of Other Indian Tribes of North America, True Traditional Stories of Tecumseh and His League, in the Years 1811 and 1812 (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1870) by Peter Dooyentate Clarke (page images at canadiana.org)
• History of the Ojebway Indians: With Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity (London: A.W. Bennett, 1861) by Peter Jones (page images at canadiana.org)
• History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan by Andrew J. Blackbird HTML and page images at LOC
• The Last of the Illinois, and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies (1870) by John Dean Caton (page images at canadiana.org)
• History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863 by Isaac V. D. Heard (page images at MOA)
• Chief Flying Hawk's Tales; The True Story of Custer's Last Fight by Chief Flying Hawk and Major Israel McCreight (at webtv.net)
• Account of the Death of Sitting Bull and of the Circumstances Attending It by James McLaughlin (at PBS)
• Alaska, and Missions on the North Pacific Coast (New York: Dodd Mead and Company, c1880) by Sheldon Jackson (page images at LOC)
The Government and the Indian Peoples
• Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians (Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1829) by Jeremiah Evarts (page images at canadiana.org)
• Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs Appointed By Law for the Extinguishment of Indian Titles in the State of New York: Published From the Original Manuscript in the Library of the Albany Institute (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1861) by Franklin Benjamin Hough
  • volume I: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume II: page images at canadiana.org
• Condition of the Indian Tribes by United States Congress Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes (page images at MOA)
• The Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California by Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (HTML at LOC)
• Are the Indians Dying Out? Preliminary Observations Relating to Indian Civilization and Education (1877), ed. by John Eaton (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Indian Question by Francis Amasa Walker (page images at MOA)
• The Indian's Side of the Indian Question (Boston : D. Lothrop, c1887) by William Barrows (page images at canadiana.org)
• Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894 (LOC)
Life and Customs of the North American Indian Peoples
General
• Indian Civilization by Stanley Pumphrey (page images at MOA)
Captivity Narratives
• A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson: Containing an Account of Her Sufferings During Four Years With the Indians and French (Walpole, NH: Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire, by David Carlisle,1796) by Mrs. Susannah Willard Johnson (page images at canadiana.org)
• A Narrative of the Capitivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family: Who Were Surprised By the Indians and Taken From Their Farms on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania in the Spring, 1780 by Benjamin Gilbert (page images at canadiana.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London : Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760) by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (page images at canadiana.org)
• Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ohme, Brown, and Green, 1824) by John Dunn Hunter (illustrated at merrycoz.org)
• Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq., Commander of the Garrison on St. George's River (1736) by John Gyles (page images at canadiana.org)
• Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny (Wiggins) Kelly (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856) by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson (Gutenberg text)
• True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars (1897) by Charlotte Alice Baker (page images at canadiana.org)
• Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota by Wilhelmina Buce Carrigan (page images at LOC)
Accounts by White Residents and Travellers Among North American Indian Peoples
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiersby Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at LOC)
• The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio by Joseph Mitchell (at UNC)
• Woodward's Reminiscenses of the Creek, or Muscogee Indians, Contained in Letters to Friends in Georgia and Alabama by Thomas S. Woodward, 1859
• Life Among the Indians by George Catlin (page images at canadiana.org)
• Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Year's Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 (1841) by George Catlin
  • volume I: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume II: page images at canadiana.org
• Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman (at University of Virginia)
• Old Indian Days by Charles Alexander Eastman (illustrated at University of Virginia)
• Report of Mr. Wood's Visit to the Choctaw and Cherokee missions (1855) by George W. Wood (page images at MOA)
• Belden, the White Chief: or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains by George P. Belden (page images at MOA)
• The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852 by Hugo Reid, ed. by Robert F. Heizer (Library of Congress)
Accounts of Specific Regions or People
• A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Hau De No Sau Nee Address to the Western World by Six Nations (at ratical.org)
• By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima by Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (illustrated at Arizona)
• Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians by Washington Matthews (page images at MOA)
• Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin by Linda M. Gregonis and Karl J. Reinhard (illustrated at Arizona)
• Indian Life in the Great North-West (London: S.W. Partridge, ca. 1900) by Egerton Ryerson Young (page images at canadiana.org)
Legends, Myths and Stories
General
• The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America (New York : Leypoldt & Holt, 1868) by Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at canadiana.org)
• Tales of the North American Indians, and Adventures of the Early Settlers in America (London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844) by Barbara Hawes (page images at canadiana.org)
• American Indian Stories (Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921) by Zitkala-Sa (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Indian Why Stories by Frank B. Linderman illustrated HTML at Virginia.
• Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Traditions of the North American Indians: Being a Second and Revised Edition of Tales of an Indian Camp (London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830) by James Athearn Jones
  • volume I: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume II: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume III: page images at canadiana.org
• The Indian Miscellany by William Wallace Beach (page images at MOA)
By Regions
The Northeast
• The Lenâpe and Their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walum Olum, a New Translation, and an Inquiry Into Its Authenticity (Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1885) by Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at canadiana.org)
• In Indian Tents : Stories Told By Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Mimac Indians to Abby L. Alger (Boston: Roberts, 1897) by Abby Langdon Alger (page images at canadiana.org)
• Legends, Traditions and Laws, of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians (Lockport, NY: Union Print. and Pub. Co., 1881) by Elias Johnson (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Iroquois Book of Rites (Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1883) by Horatio Hale page images at canadiana.org
The Plains
• Dahcotah, Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling by Mary Henderson Eastman, contrib. by C.M. Kirkland (page images at canadiana.org)
• Legends of the Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie De Voe (illustrated HTML at Kansas)
The Southwest
• The Dîné: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians by Aileen O'Bryan (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Traditions of the Hopi by H. R. Voth (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Zuni Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
The West and Northwest
• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (Gutenberg text)
• Legends of the Northwest (1881) by Hanford Lennox Gordon (page images at canadiana.org)
• Tales From the Totems of the Hidery (1899) by James Deans, ed. by Oscar Lovell Triggs (page images at canadiana.org)
• Taytay's Tales (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1922) by Elizabeth Willis De Huff, illust. by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Religion, Ritual and Ceremony
• The Worship and Traditions of the Aborigines of America, Or, Their Testimony to the Religion of the Bible by Myron Eells (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet by Arthur C. Parker (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Zuni Ceremonialism (as originally published by the Smithsonian) by Ruth Leah Bunzel (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Indians of Southern California in 1852 by Benjamin Davis Wilson, ed. by John Walton Caughey (at LOC)
• The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians by Franz Boas (page images at canadiana.org)
Work and Play
• Primitive Industry, Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America (Salem, Mass.: G.A. Bates, 1881.) by Charles Conrad Abbott (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Franz Boas (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington : G.P.O., 1897) by Walter James Hoffman (page images at canadiana.org)
• Indian Games: An Historical Research (1886) by Andrew McFarland Davis (page images at canadiana.org)


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