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Filed under: Indians of North America

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), by Edwin James
- Volume 1: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 2: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
- Volume 3: Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852), by George Catlin
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, From Original Notes and Manuscripts (Buffalo: G.H. Derby, 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at Google; US access only)
Condition of the Indian Tribes (1867), by United States Congress Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes (page images at MOA)
The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
Excursions in North America, Described in Letters From a Gentleman and His Young Companion, to Their Friends in England (London: Darton and Harvey, 1806), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
Excursions in North America, Described in Letters From a Gentleman and His Young Companion, to Their Friends in England (second edition; London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1810), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at canadiana.org)
Indian Civilization, by Stanley Pumphrey (page images at MOA)
The Indian Miscellany, by William Wallace Beach (page images at MOA)
Indian Names, Facts and Games for Camp Fire Girls (1917), by Florence Maude Poast (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States (New York: Columbia University, 1913), by Almon Wheeler Lauber (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Indian Tribes of North America (Washington: GPO, 1953), by John Reed Swanton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indian Tribes of the United States: Their History, Antiquities, Customs, Religion, Arts, Language, Traditions, Oral Legends, and Myths (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1884), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ed. by Francis S. Drake
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier (HTML at PBS)
Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, As They Existed Previous to the Revolution (New York: G. Dearborn, 1836), by Anne MacVicar Grant (HTML and page images at LOC)
Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River, and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar, With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent (New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour, 1806), by Thomas Jefferson (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (St. Louis: Blair Publishing Co., 1895), by James Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (1903), by James Cox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: J. Whiston & B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm (multiple formats at archive.org)
On the Civilization of the Indians in British America (London: Printed by J. Brettell, ca.1816), by Thomas Douglas Selkirk (page images at canadiana.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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
The People of the Longhouse (Toronto: Church of England Pub., 1897), by Edward Marion Chadwick (multiple formats at archive.org)
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (HTML and page images at LOC)
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, by Ellsworth Huntington (Gutenberg text)
Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of This Continent (1784), by Anthony Benezet (multiple formats at archive.org)
Tales of the Indians: Being Prominent Passages of the History of the North American Natives Taken From Authentic Sources (Boston: Waitt & Dow, 1831), by B. B. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (partial serial archives)
A View of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the North-Americans: Comprehending an Accountof the Northern Indians, of the Inhabitants of Oonalashka and Nootka Sound, of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, of the Inhabitants of the United States, &c. (Philadelphia: Published by Johnson and Warner, 1810), by Richard Phillips (page images at canadiana.org)
Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians (1791), by John Long (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Alaska

An Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
The Native Tribes of Alaska: An Address Before the Section of Anthropology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, At Ann Arbor, August, 1885 (1885), by William Healey Dall (multiple formats at archive.org)
The North-West Coast of America: Being Results of Recent Ethnological Researches From the Collections of the Royal Museums At Berlin (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Anecdotes

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)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Anthropometry

On the Supposed Prevalence of One Cranial Type Throughout the American Aborigines (1858), by Daniel Wilson (page images at canadiana.org)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Antiquities

Ancient Aboriginal Trade in North America (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1873), by Charles Rau (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1892), by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Stone Ornaments Used by Indians in the United States and Canada, by Warren King Moorehead, contrib. by Arthur Caswell Parker and Edward Higginson Williams (DjVu at Georgia)
Traditions of De-coo-dah and Antiquarian Researches (New York: H. Thayer, 1852), by William Pidgeon (page images at canadiana.org)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Arizona

Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona, by Albert H. Schroeder and Homer F. Hastings (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Bibliography

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (71 volumes; English translation only), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (HTML at Creighton)
List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, With Index to Authors and Titles (electronic edition, 1997), by Smithsonian Institution (HTML at Smithsonian)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- Biography

Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (Washington : G.P.O., 1877), by William Henry Jackson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Firewater and Forked Tongues: A Sioux Chief Interprets U.S. History (Pasadena: Trail's End Pub. Co., c1947), by M. I. McCreight and Flying Hawk, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, by Charles Alexander Eastman (Gutenberg text)
Life Among the Indians: or, Personal Reminiscences and Historical Incidents Illustrative of Indian Life and Character (Cincinnati: Printed at the Methodist Book Concern for the Author, 1859), by James B. Finley, ed. by D. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
Stories of Indian Chieftains (part 2 of Husted's Indian series; Bloomington, IL: Public-School Pub. Co., 1911), by Mary Hall Husted (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Indians of North America -- British Columbia

Canada on the Pacific: Being an Account of a Journey From Edmonton to the Pacific By the Peace River Valley and of a Winter Voyage Along the Western Coast of the Dominion With Remarks on the Physical Features of the Pacific Railway Route and Notices of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia (Montreal : Dawson, 1874), by Charles Horetzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia: With a Map Illustrating Distribution (Montreal: Dawson, 1884), by William Fraser Tolmie and George M. Dawson (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Geography of the Tsimshian Indians, by George Amos Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
Klatsassan: and Other Reminiscences of Missionary Life in British Columbia (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873), by R. C. Lundin Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
The North-West Coast of America: Being Results of Recent Ethnological Researches From the Collections of the Royal Museums At Berlin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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