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• Lives of Celebrated American Indians (Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at canadiana.org)

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• 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)
• The Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, by Emory Adams Allen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Travels Through the Canadas: 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 Richard Phillips... by J.G. Barnard..., 1805), by George Heriot (page images at canadiana.org)

• Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper, 1871), by John D. Baldwin (page images at canadiana.org)
• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: Colt, Burgess, 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey (page images at canadiana.org)
• 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

• The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages (London: Trubner, 1858), by Hermann Ernest Ludewig, ed. by Nicolas Trubner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historia de las Indias (5 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: M. Ginesta, 1875-1876), by Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Tomo I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo III: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Tomo IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo V: multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages With Words, Phrases, and Sentences to be Collected (Washington: G.P.O., 1877), by John Wesley Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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 (page images at canadiana.org)

• Practical Chinook Vocabulary: Comprising All & the Only Usual Words of That Wonderful Language Arranged in a Most Advantageous Order for the Speedily Learning of the Same, After the Plan of Right Rev. Bishop Durieu O.M.I., the Most Experienced Missionary & Chinook Speaker in British Columbia (Kamloops, BC: St. Louis' Mission, 1886), by Jean Marie Raphael Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chinook Vocabulary, Chinook-English: From the Original of Rt. Rev. Bishop Durieu, O.M.I., With the Chinook Words in Phonography (1892), by Jean Marie Raphael Le Jeune and Paul Durieu (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Our Lady of Lourdes (Kamloops, BC: St. Louis Mission, 1893), by Jean-Marie J. Le Jacq and Jean Marie Raphael Le Jeune (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Coos Texts, by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Maidu Texts, by Roland Burrage Dixon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Maya Chronicles, ed. by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)

• The Maya Chronicles, ed. by Daniel G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)

• Dictionary of Indian Tongues: Containing Most of the Words and Terms Used in the Tshimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook: With Their Meaning or Equivalent in the English Language (Victoria, B.C: Hibben & Carswell, 1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Asiatic Tribes in North America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 (1801), by Charles Crawford (page images at canadiana.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)
• Hittites in America (c. 1881), by John Campbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon (c1986), by Dan Vogel (HTML at Signature Books)
• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: Colt, Burgess, 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey (page images at canadiana.org)
• Major Powell's Inquiry, "Whence Came the American Indians?" An Answer: A Study in Comparative Ethnology, by James Wickersham (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)
• 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)
• View of the Hebrews: or The Tribes of Israel in America (second edition, 1825), by Ethan Smith
  • HTML at 2think.org
  • HTML at Signature Books

• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• On Numerals in Indian Languages and the Indian Mode of Counting, by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)

• New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System (1884), by Joseph Laurent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Indians in the War (1945), by United States Office of Indian Affairs (illustrated HTML at navy.mil)

• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (1856), by William O. Blake
  • HTML at encyclopaedic.net
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
• The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)

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