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• Algonquian Indians
• Indians of North America -- Virginia

• Powhatan Indians -- History
• Powhatan Indians -- Names
• Powhatan Indians -- Poetry
• Powhatan Indians -- Race identity
• Powhatan Indians -- Social life and customs
• Powhatan Indians -- Virginia
• Bocootawwonauke Indians
• Pamunkey Indians
• Potomac Indians
• Rappahannock Indians

• Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia (Indian Notes and Monographs v1 #5; New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, 1928), by Frank G. Speck
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #18; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake (University Press of Florida, 2016), by Martin D Gallivan (JSTOR ebook)

• Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c2022), by Laura J. Feller (PDF with commentary at shareok.org)

• Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c2022), by Laura J. Feller (PDF with commentary at shareok.org)

• American Indians of the Potomac (Great Falls Park, 2005), by Russell Brown, Marcia Churchill, Brent O'Neill, and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derivation of the name Powhatan (1904), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Land of Powhatan: By a Virginian (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1821), by St. Leger Landon Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, c2022), by Laura J. Feller (PDF with commentary at shareok.org)

• The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake (University Press of Florida, 2016), by Martin D Gallivan (JSTOR ebook)

• Some Powhatan Names (reprinted from the American Anthropologist, 1904), by William Wallace Tooker
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  • as originally published in the journal; multiple formats at archive.org

• The Bocootawanaukes, or, The Fire Nation; With Historical and Ethnological Notes (Algonquian series #6; New York: F. P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pamunkey Indians of Virginia (Govt. print. off., 1894), by John Garland Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tuckahoe; a collection of Indian stories and legends (Broadway Pub. Co., 1907), by Francis Elizabeth Scott Bagby (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Algonquian terms Patawomeke (Potomac) and Massawomeke : with historical and ethnological notes (F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on S. 2694, to extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Tribe, and the Nansemond Tribe, October 9, 2002, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thomasina Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act and the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan Referral Act : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on S. 437, to expedite review of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan to secure a timely and just determination of whether that group is entitled to recognition as a federal Indian tribe, S. 480, to extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monocan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe, June 21, 2006, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on S. 2694, to extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Tribe, and the Nansemond Tribe, October 9, 2002, Washington, DC. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• HR 992, HR 2345 and HR 5155 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rappahannock Indians of Virginia (Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1925), by Frank G. Speck (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Thème Décoratif de la Double Courbe Dans l'Art des Algonquins du Nord-Est (in French; Ottawa: Ministère des Mines, Commission Géologique, 1915), by Frank G. Speck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Snares, Deadfalls, and Other Traps of the Northern Algonquians and Northern Athapaskans (Catholic University of America Anthropological Series #5; 1938), by John M. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algonquin Indian Tales (1903), by Egerton Ryerson Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Les idées des Indiens algonquins relatives à la vie d'outre-tombe (E. Leroux, 1901), by Elizabeth Lætitia Moon Conard and Léon Marillier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The double-curve motive in northeastern Algonkian art (G.P.O., 1914), by Frank G. Speck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burials of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (Govt Print. 0ff, 1927), by David I. Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (Govt. print. off., 1922), by David I. Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algonquin Indian tales (Eaton & Mains;, 1903), by Egerton Ryerson Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fall of Hochelaga a study of popular tradition (s.n., 1894), by Horatio Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous Algonquins: Algic legends (s.n.], 1899), by James Cleland Hamilton and Canadian Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algonquin Indian tales (Fleming H. Revell, 1903), by Egerton Ryerson Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fall of Hochelaga : a study of popular tradition (s.n.], 1894), by Horatio Hale, William Henry Holmes, American Folklore Society, and Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• The double-curve motive in northeastern Algonkian art. (Govt. Print. Bureau, 1914), by Frank Gouldsmith Speck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wen kedwi pakabuguet, deli annkidagit (Edward Dunigen & Brother. (James B. Kirker.) 371 Broadway, 1858), by Eugene Vetromile, Thomas W. Strong, and Edward Dunigan & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonquin legends of new England. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The functions of wampum among the eastern Algonkian (American Anthropological Association, 1919), by Frank G. Speck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonkian occupation of New York. I. General archeological criteria of early Algonkian culture (Lewis H. Morgan Chapter, 1923), by Alanson Skinner and Arthur C. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi, by David I. Bushnell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Antiquities of the New England Indians, with notes on the ancient cultures of the adjacent territory (The Peabody Museum of American archaeology and ethnology, Harvard University, 1935), by Charles Clark Willoughby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pre-Iroquoian Algonkian Indians of central and western New York ([Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation], 1919), by Alanson Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An ancient Algonkian fishing vilage at Cayuga, New York (Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1919), by Alanson Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronological relations of coastal Algonquian culture ([s.n.], 1917), by Alanson Skinner, Washington International Congress of Americanists. 19th, and D.C.) International Congress of Americanists (19th : 1915 : Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian history of New York State. ([Albany], 1950), by William A. Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'Algonquine : roman des jours héroiques du Canada sous la domination française (Compagnie de Publication de "La Patrie", 1910), by Rodolphe Girard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sagamore of Saco, by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

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