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• Legends of Vancouver (Vancouver: David Spencer Limited, 1911), by E. Pauline Johnson
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Legends of Vancouver (McClelland and Stewart, Publishers, 1926), by E. Pauline Johnson and approximately 1854-1910 Su-á-pu-luck (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Traditions of the Chilcotin Indians (1900), by Livingston Farrand (PDF with commentary at amnh.org)
• Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect (Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin #29; Washington: GPO, 1905), by John Reed Swanton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The mythology of the Bella Coola Indian (AMS Press, 1975), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haida texts and myths : Skidegate dialect (in English and Haida), ed. by John Reed Swanton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Traditions of the Chilcotin Indians (1900), by Livingston Farrand (PDF with commentary at amnh.org)

• In the Time That Was, by James Frederic Thorne (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Flying Canoe: Legends of the Cowichans (Victoria: J. Parker Buckle Printing, 1949), by Beryl Mildred Cryer, illust. by Betty Campbell Newton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• History and folklore of the Cowichan Indians. (The Colonist printing and publishing company, limited liability, 1901), by Martha Douglas Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians (extract from Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History v2; 1898), by Franz Boas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The mythology of the Bella Coola Indian (AMS Press, 1975), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traditions of the Quinault Indians. ([New York], 1902), by Livingston Farrand and W. S. Kahnweiler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tales From the Totems of the Hidery (1899), by James Deans, ed. by Oscar Lovell Triggs (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect (Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin #29; Washington: GPO, 1905), by John Reed Swanton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales from the totems of the Hidery (Chicago, 1899), by James Deans and Oscar Lovell Triggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect (Govt. print. off., 1905), by John Reed Swanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haida songs (Late E. J. Brill, 1912), by John Reed Swanton and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Haida texts and myths : Skidegate dialect (in English and Haida), ed. by John Reed Swanton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Kwakiutl Tales, New Series (translations volume only; New York: Columbia University Press, 1935), ed. by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kwakiutl Tales (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, v2; New York: Columbua University Press, 1910), ed. by Franz Boas
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • English portions only: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• Kwakiutl tales. (AMS Press, 1969), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, based on data collected by George Hunt (Government Printing Office, 1921), by Franz Boas and George Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kwakiutl tales. (Columbia University Press, 1969), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives, With Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials (with English translations and commentary; Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America, University of Pennsylvania, 1939), by Linguistic Society of America, ed. by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nootka texts : tales and ethnological narratives, with grammatical notes and lexical materials (AMS Press, 1978), by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coyote Stories (Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1934), by Mourning Dove, ed. by Heister Dean Guie, contrib. by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter and Luther Standing Bear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society v11; Lancaster, PA and New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1917), ed. by Franz Boas, contrib. by James Alexander Teit, Livingston Farrand, Marian K. Gould, and Herbert Joseph Spinden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tlingit Myths and Texts, by John Reed Swanton (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Tsimshian Texts (1902), ed. by Franz Boas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Tsimshian Texts (New Series) (1912), ed. by Franz Boas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Haida songs (AMS Press, 1974), by John Reed Swanton and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The box of daylight (Junior Literary Guild, 1931), by William Hurd Hillyer and Erick Berry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian Legends of Vancouver Island, by Alfred Carmichael, illust. by J. Semeyn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Legends of Vancouver (Vancouver: David Spencer Limited, 1911), by E. Pauline Johnson
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text