Indians of Central America

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• Ethnology -- Central America
• Indigenous peoples

• Indians of Central America -- Antiquities
• Indians of Central America -- Ethnobotany
• Indians of Central America -- Folklore
• Indians of Central America -- Guatemala
• Indians of Central America -- History
• Indians of Central America -- Legends
• Indians of Central America -- Mexico
• Indians of Central America -- Panama
• Indians of Central America -- Religion
• Ethnology -- Central America
• Indian art -- Central America
• Indian textile fabrics -- Central America
• Mayas

• Indians of Central America -- Ethnology
• Pre-Columbian Indians
• Precolumbian Indians
• Indigenous peoples -- Central America
• Meso-America
• Meso-American Indians
• Mesoamerica
• Mesoamerican Indians

• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1841-2), by John Lloyd Stephens, contrib. by Frederick Catherwood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama: On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Province, by Olga F. Linares (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• Neglected Crops: 1492 From a Different Perspective, ed. by J. Esteban Hernandez Bermejo and J. Leon (HTML at fao.org)

• Tales Of Mayaland (Pasadena, CA: San Pasqual Press, 1938), by Blanche Collet Wagner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Annals of the Cakchiquels: The Original Text, With a Translation, Notes, and Introduction (1885), ed. by Daniel G. Brinton, contrib. by Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz Gebuta Quej (Gutenberg text and page images)

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

• The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750 (c2002), by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750 (c2002), by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Stories of El Dorado (c1904), by Frona Eunice Wait (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico (revised reprint, 1980), by Bernice Johnston (illustrated HTML at Arizona)

• Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama: On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Province, by Olga F. Linares (PDF with commentary at doaks.org)

• The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, ed. by Ralph Loveland Roys (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Weavers of the Jade Needle: Textiles of Highland Guatemala (1976), by Carol Stout (PDF at Arizona)

• Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937), by Diego de Landa, ed. by William Gates (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Heart of the World, by H. Rider Haggard (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. by Stephen D. Houston (PDF files at doaks.org)

• The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, ed. by Ralph Loveland Roys (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Psychologie en Ethnologie in de Koloniale Politiek (in Dutch; Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1916), by Herman F. C. ten Kate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treatment of Natives in the German Colonies (London: H.M.S.O., 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• Treatment of Natives in the German Colonies (London: H.M.S.O., 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples (UN Guide #1; in English, French, Spanish and Russian; ca. 2001), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF files at ohchr.org; scroll down to bottom of page)

• The Crime of the Congo, by Arthur Conan Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• King Leopold's Rule in Africa (London: W. Heinemann, 1904), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Which Flourished on the Congo for Twenty Years, 1890-1910 (revised edition; Manchester, UK: National Labour Press, 1920), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women and the Gift Economy: A Redically Different Worldview is Possible (2007), ed. by Genevieve Vaughan (PDF files with commentary at gift-economy.com)

• Typee: A Real Romance of the South Sea (Boston: The St. Botolph society, c1892), by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typee: A Romance of the South Seas, by Herman Melville, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman (Gutenberg text)

• In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples (UN Guide #1; in English, French, Spanish and Russian; ca. 2001), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF files at ohchr.org; scroll down to bottom of page)

• The Indigenous World, by International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (partial serial archives)

• Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion, by Sol. T. Plaatje
  • HTML in South Africa
  • Gutenberg text

• NADA: The Southern Rhodesia Native Affairs Dept. Annual for 1942 (1942), by Southern Rhodesia Department of Native Affairs (PDF at archive.org)

• Circumstantial Deliveries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), by Rodney Needham (HTML at UC Press)
• Military Morale of Nations and Races (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1912), by Charles Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mind of Primitive Man (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Franz Boas (page images at Google; US access only)

• Anónimo Mexicano (in English and Nahuatl, with notes; Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), ed. by Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• 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 (multiple formats at Google)
• 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 Alberta)
• 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 J. Long (multiple formats at archive.org)

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