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• The Algonquin Legends of New England, Or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes (Boston and Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; Riverside Press, 1884), by Charles Godfrey Leland
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• The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott; London: Trubner, 1856), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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• Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algonquin Indian tales (Eaton & Mains;, 1903), by Egerton Ryerson Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian hero tales (American Book Company, 1916), by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and mythological traditions of the Algonquins ([s.n.], 1849), by E. G. Squier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonquin legends of New England; or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes (Singing Tree Press, 1968), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The life and traditions of the red man (C.H. Glass, 1893), by Joseph Nicolar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian hero tales (American Book Company, 1916), by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schoolcraft's Indian legends from Algic researches : the myth of Hiawatha, Oneóta, the Red Race in America, and historical and statistical information respecting ... the Indian tribes of the United States (Michigan State University Press, 1956), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and Mentor L. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• By Cheyenne campfires (Yale University Press, 1926), by George Bird Grinnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some early Cheyenne tales (Published for the American Folk-lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.], 1907), by George Bird Grinnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian Why Stories, by Frank Bird Linderman
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• Indian Old-man stories; more sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire (C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Frank Bird Linderman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian why stories; sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire (C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Frank Bird Linderman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique: Exposition Absolue du Système Hiéroglyphique Mexicain; La Fin de Pȧge de Pierre; Époque Glaciaire Temporaire; Commencement De Pȧge de Bronze; Origines de la Civilisation Et des Religions de L'antiquité; (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v4, in French, with an English appendix by Rafinesque on the Lenape; Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, contrib. by C. S. Rafinesque
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• A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs. (AMS Press, 1980), by Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Pennsylvania Historical Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little Turtle of the Lenni Lenape (Franklin Publishing & Supply Co., 1931), by William Slaughter and Lecian Von Bernuth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fox texts (Late E. J. Brill, 1907), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fox miscellany (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1937), by Truman Michelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the buffalo-head dance of the Thunder gens of the Fox Indians (Govt. print. off., 1928), by Truman Michelson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The last of the Illini; or, The legend of Starved Rock, a tale of Illinois (Chicago, 1916), by William Noble Roundy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The celestial bear comes down to earth : the bear sacrifice ceremony of the Munsee-Mahican in Canada as related by Nekatcit (Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, 1945), by Frank G. Speck, Nicodemus Peters, and Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery (Pa.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Swift-flyer's flights (J.G.R. Baner, 1923), by Johan G. R. Banér (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menomini texts (G. E. Stechert, 1928), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manabush Menomini tales : adventures of the Menomini cultural hero, Manabush (Wisconsin Folklore Society, 1947), by Dorothy Moulding Brown and Wisconsin Folklore Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• In Indian Tents: Stories Told By Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Mimac Indians to Abby L. Alger (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1897), by Abby Langdon Alger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Legends of the Micmacs. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1894), by Silas Tertius Rand and Helen Livermore Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trois légendes de mon pays; ou L'Évangile ignoré, L'Évangile prêché, L'Évangile accepté (C.O. Beauchemin et Valois, 1871), by Joseph-Charles Taché (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glooscap the great chief, and other stories; legends of the Micmacs. (Sturgis & Walton, 1913), by Emelyn Newcomb Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Indian tents (Roberts Brothers, 1897), by Abby L. Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian hero tales (American Book Company, 1916), by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Indian Tents: Stories Told by Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians to Abby L. Alger, by Abby Langdon Alger (Gutenberg ebook)

• Indian Legends: Nanabush, the Ojibbeway Saviour; Moosh-Kuh-Ung, or The Flood (1885), by John Ingham Hindley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Why Stories, by Frank Bird Linderman
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• Legends of the Northwest (1881), by Hanford Lennox Gordon
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• Kitch-iti-ki-pi, the "Big spring" ; wonderfully beautiful. (Namesakes) The Ojibway and Chippeway Indian legends ([Manistique, Mich.], 1933), by Johan G. R. Banér and John Ira Bellaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ojibwa myths and legends (Ross and Haines, 1962), by Bernard Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of Green Sky Hill (Eerdmans, 1959), by Louise Jean Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some myths and tales of the Ojibwa of southeastern Ontario. (Government printing bureau, 1914), by Paul Radin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Namesakes : the Ojibway Indian legend "Kitch-iti-ki-pi" (J.G.R. Baner, 1925), by Johan G. R. Banér (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the Northwest (St. Paul Book and Stationery Co., 1881), by Hanford Lennox Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the Chippewas (Wright Printing Co., 1927), by Robert H. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicine-water, mashkiq'kiu-ne'pish Kitch-iti-ki-pi, the "Big Spring" : Menominee and Chippeway Indian legends and myths (s.n.], 1933), by Johan G. R. Banér, John Ira Bellaire, and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ojibwa tales from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. ([n.p., 1913), by Julia Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hiawatha (George M. Hill Co., 1898), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ojibwa texts collected by William Jones (E. J. Brill, 1917), by William Jones and Truman Michelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The white canoe, and other legends of the Ojibways (Broadway Pub. Co., 1904), by Elizabeth Monckton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian Old-man stories; more sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire (C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Frank Bird Linderman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian why stories; sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire (C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Frank Bird Linderman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chippewa tales (Wetzel Pub. Co., 1928), by Wa-be-no O-pee-chee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ojibwa myths and tales (printed by William Briggs, 1915), by Geo. E. Laidlaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bending Willow: a tale of missionary life in the Northwest. (R. Carter, 1872), by Jane Gay Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian legends, Nanabush, the Ojibbeway saviour. Moosh-kuh-ung ([Barrie? Ont.], 1885), by John Ingham Hindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, by Frank G. Speck (Gutenberg ebook)

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