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• Indians of North America -- North Carolina
• Indians of North America -- Early works to 1800

• A New Voyage to Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country, Together With the Present State Thereof; and a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c. (London, 1709), by John Lawson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson (Gutenberg text)

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

• The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2018), by Malinda Maynor Lowery (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
• Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791), by William Bartram
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • page images at loc.gov
• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Dublin: For J. Moore et al., 1793), by William Bartram
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (second edition in London, based on the 1791 Philadelphia edition; London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1794), by William Bartram
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Carolina Indian Voice (1976-2005) (partial serial archives)

• The Carolina Indian Voice (1976-2005) (partial serial archives)

• The Indian Gallows, and Other Poems (New York: E. Walker, 1846), by W. H. Rhodes
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony: An Historical Sketch of the Attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to Establish a Colony in Virginia (Wilson, NC: Advance Presses, 1888), by Hamilton McMillan (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2018), by Malinda Maynor Lowery (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Legends, Traditions and Laws, of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians (Lockport, NY: Union Print. and Pub. Co., 1881), by Elias Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Legends, Traditions and Laws, of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians, by Elias Johnson (Gutenberg text)

• Indian Wars in North Carolina, 1663-1763 (Raleigh: Carolina Charter Tercentenary Committee, 1963), by Enoch Lawrence Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Tutelo Tribe and Language, by Horatio Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Indian Wars in North Carolina, 1663-1763 (Raleigh: Carolina Charter Tercentenary Committee, 1963), by Enoch Lawrence Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader: Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians (London: Printed for the author, 1791), by J. Long
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family: Who Were Taken By the Indians in the Spring of 1780 (third edition; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Richards, 1848), by Benjamin Gilbert (multiple formats at Google)
• John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1922), by J. Long, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a Voyage to North-America (1761), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and Travels Through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico (1763), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Florida del Inca: Historia del Adelantado Hernando de Soto, Gobernador y Capitán General del Reino de la Florida, y de Otros Heróicos Caballeros Españoles é Indios (new edition in Spanish, in 2 volumes (marked as v6 and 7 of a larger series); Madrid: Los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela, 1829), by Garcilaso de la Vega (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages from Holland to America, A. D. 1632 to 1644 (1853), by David Pietersz. de Vries, trans. by Henry Cruse Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Rice Boys, Captured by the Indians, August 8, 1704 (Westborough, MA: Westborough Historical Society, 1906), by Ebenezer Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq., Commander of the Garrison on St. George's River (1736), by John Gyles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family: Who Were Taken By the Indians in the Spring of 1780 (third edition; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Richards, 1848), by Benjamin Gilbert (multiple formats at Google)

• The Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnet, of Massachusetts (1793), by Jackson Johonnet, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• New Voyages to North-America (2 volumes; London: Printed for H. Bowicke et al., 1703), by baron de Lahontan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq., Commander of the Garrison on St. George's River (1736), by John Gyles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• David Brainerd, by David Brainerd, ed. by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)
• True Saints, When Absent from the Body, are Present with the Lord, by Jonathan Edwards (HTML at CCEL)

• The Dying Speeches of Several Indians (ca. 1685), ed. by John Eliot (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lye on Both Sides of the River Mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763), by Le Page du Pratz
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (new edition; London: Printed for T. Becket, 1774), by Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (reprint based on the 1774 edition, with added introduction, captions, and index; New Orleans: Pelican Press, ca. 1947), by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Brief Description of New-York, Formerly Called New-Netherlands (London: Printed for John Hancock, 1670), by Daniel Denton (PDF at unl.edu)
• A Brief Description of New-York: Reproduced From the Original Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society publication #40; 1937), by Daniel Denton, contrib. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of Virginia, in Four Parts (second edition; London: Printed for B. and S. Tooke et al., 1722), by Robert Beverley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at LOC