Indians
For convenience, the Western Hemisphere has been divided into five basic geographical regions: North America, Mexico, Central America, West Indies and South America. Works pertaining to Indian groups located within the confines of one of these regions are entered under Indians of the pertinent region, e.g. Indians of North America; Indians of Mexico.
Here are entered works on the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, including Eskimos. Works on the inhabitants of India in general are entered under East Indians.
Names of Indian linguistic families are distinguished as such (and from the names of single languages or tribes) by the termination an or ian.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Indians -- Antiquities
- Indians -- Bibliography
- Indians -- Biography
- Indians -- Early works to 1800
- Indians -- First contact with Europeans
- Indians -- Folklore
- Indians -- History
- Indians -- Industries
- Indians -- Languages
- Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Indians -- Origin
- Indians -- Periodicals
- Indians -- Religion
- Indians -- Sexual behavior
- Indians -- Study and teaching
- Indian architecture
- Indian art
- Indian children
- Indian masks
- Indian mythology
- Indian philosophy
- Indian pottery
- Indian sculpture
- Indian silverwork
- Indian textile fabrics
- Indian wood-carving
- Indians -- Languages -- Writing
- Indians, Treatment of
- Names, Indian
- Picture-writing, Indian
- Whites -- Relations with Indians
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Indians
- United States. Navy -- Indians
- Indians -- Civilization
- Pre-Columbian Indians
- Amerindians
- Precolumbian Indians
- Aborigines, American
- Amerinds
- American aborigines
- American Indians
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The American Nations: or, Outlines of Their General History, Ancient and Modern (2 volumes; Philadelphia: C. S. Rafinesque, 1836), by C. S. Rafinesque- The Indian Races of North and South America (1864 edition), by Charles De Wolf Brownell (page images at MOA)
- An Inquiry Into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America (1842), by Samuel George Morton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels Through the Canadas: Containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes; With an Account of the Productions, Commerce, and Inhabitants of Those Provinces; To Which is Subjoined a Comparative View of the Manners and Customs of Several of the Indian Nations of North and South America (London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1807), by George Heriot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, by Emory Adams Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper and Bros., c1871), by John D. Baldwin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Los Animales Domesticos de la America Precolombiana (Publicaciones del Museo de Etonologia y Antropologia #3, in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: Imp. Cervantes, 1922), by Ricardo E. Latcham
- Prehistoric America (5 volumes; Chicago: American Antiquarian Office, 1898-1905), by Stephen D. Peet
- Volume 1 (The Mound Builders, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2 (Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3 (The Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4 (Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5 (Myths and Symbols): multiple formats at archive.org
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1994), ed. by David A. Scott and Pieter Meyers (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
- A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages (London: Trubner, 1858), by Hermann E. Ludewig, ed. by Nicolas Trübner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lives of Celebrated American Indians (Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at Google)
- L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)
- A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Historia de las Indias (5 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: M. Ginesta, 1875-1876), by Bartolomé de las Casas
- An Account of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America (translated selections from Casas' work; with The Art of Travelling; London: Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown et al., 1699), by Bartolomé de las Casas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos olim Devastatarum Accuratissima Descriptio, Insertis Figuris Aencis ad Vivum Fabrefactis (in Latin; Heidelberg: Typis Guilielmi Walteri, 1664), by Bartolomé de las Casas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Breve Relacion de la Destruccion de las Indias Occidentales (in Spanish; Filadelfia, Mexico: J. F. Hurtel, 1821), by Bartolomé de las Casas, ed. by José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Breve Relacion de la Destruccion de las Indias Occidentales (in Spanish; Filadelfia, Mexico: Don Mariano Ontiveros, 1822), by Bartolomé de las Casas, ed. by José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tears of the Indians: Being an Historical and True Account of the Cruel Massacres and Slaughters of Above Twenty Millions of Innocent People, Committed By the Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, Etc., As Also, in the Continent of Mexico, Peru, and Other Places of the West-Indies, to the Total Destruction of Those Countries (facsimile reprint; original London: Printed by J. C. for N. Brook, 1656), by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by John Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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 G. Brinton
- Aboriginal American Authors and Their Productions, Especially Those in the Native Languages: A Chapter in the History of Literature, by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
- Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (c1986), by Dan Vogel (HTML at Signature Books)
- The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.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 (second edition; Philadelphia: J. Humphreys, 1801), by Charles Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoir on the European Colonization of America, in Ante-Historic Times (1851), by Augustus Christian Adolf Zestermann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (first edition, 1797), by Benjamin Smith Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (second edition, 1798), by Benjamin Smith Barton (multiple formats at archive.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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- View of the Hebrews: or The Tribes of Israel in America (second edition, 1825), by Ethan Smith
- The American Nations: or, Outlines of Their General History, Ancient and Modern (2 volumes; Philadelphia: C. S. Rafinesque, 1836), by C. S. Rafinesque
- Asiatic Tribes in North America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the American Indians, Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Mississippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1775), by James Adair (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Major Powell's Inquiry, "Whence Came the American Indians?" An Answer: A Study in Comparative Ethnology, by James Wickersham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Origin of the North American Indians: With a Faithful Description of Their Manners and Customs, Both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments, To Which is Prefixed a Brief View of the Creation of the World (New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1844), by John McIntosh (page images at Wisconsin)
- Hittites in America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, by Smithsonian Institution (partial serial archives)
- The Worship and Traditions of the Aborigines of America, Or, Their Testimony to the Religion of the Bible, by Myron Eells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent (1882), by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
- 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 G. Brinton
- New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System (1884), by Joseph Laurent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Henry C. Mercer (DjVu at Georgia)
- The Lenape Stone: or, The Indian and the Mammoth (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885), by Henry C. Mercer (illustrated HTML at uga.edu)
- Coffee in the Gourd (1923), ed. by J. Frank Dobie (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- 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 G. Brinton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Indian's Secret of Health; or, What the White Race May Learn from the Indian (new and enlarged edition; Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, 1917), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indians in the War (1945), by United States Office of Indian Affairs
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