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Indian Music (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., 1928), by Thurlow Lieurance, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Nevin (PDF at Wichita State)
Indian Story and Song From North America (London, Boston: D. Nutt; Small, Maynard, 1900), by Alice C. Fletcher (multiple formats at archive.org)
Indian Melodies (New York: G. Lane and C. B. Tippett, 1845), by Thomas Commuck and Thomas Hastings
- multiple formats at archive.org
- hymn pages with commentary: page images at hymnary.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The book of Indian crafts & Indian lore. (Harper & brother, 1928), by Julian Harris Salomon (page images at HathiTrust)
The Tutelo spirit adoption ceremony; reclothing the living in the name of the dead (Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania historical commission, 1942), by Frank G. Speck, George Herzog, and Pennsylvania Historical Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
American Indian dance steps (A. S. Barnes and company, incorporated, 1931), by Bessie Evans and May Garrettson Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian games and dances with native songs, arranged from American Indian ceremonials and sports (C. C. Birchard & company, 1915), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian story and song, from North America (Small, Maynard & company, 1900), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Drums, tomtoms and rattles; primitive percussion instruments for modern use (A. S. Barnes & company, 1938), by Bernard S. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
The native and primitive music of Canada ([East Lansing? Mich., 1935), by Margaret J. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian folk-songs of Pennsylvania (N. F. McGirr, 1927), by Henry W. Shoemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
Offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race (Harper and Bros., 1907), by Natalie Curtis Burlin (page images at HathiTrust)
Teton Sioux music (G.P.O., 1918), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Ceremonial songs of the Creek and Yuchi Indians (University Museum, 1911), by Frank G. Speck, J. D. Sapir, and University of Pennsylvania. University Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
Music of the Maidu Indians of California. (Southwest Museum, 1958), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian story and song from North America. (AMS Press, 1970), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
American primitive music, with especial attention to the songs of the Ojibways (Moffat, Yard and company, 1909), by Frederick R. Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
The American Indians and their music. (The Womans Press, 1926), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Mandan and Hidatsa music (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1923., 1923), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Seminole music (Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1956, 1956), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs from the Iroquois longhouse : program notes for an album of American Indian music from the eastern woodlands, from records in the Archive of American Folk Song, the Library of Congress (Library of Congress, Recording Laboratory, 1946), by William N. Fenton and Library of Congress. Division of Music. Archive of American Folk Song (page images at HathiTrust)
Iroquois music and dance: ceremonial arts of two Seneca Longhouses (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964), by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Cheyenne and Arapaho music (Southwest museum, 1936), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Two pianoforte compositions. Symbolistic study, no. 1 (The Wa-Wan Press, 1904), by Arthur Farwell and Carlos Troyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Traditional songs of the Zuñis, with English and Zuñi text. First series. (The Wa-Wan Press, 1904), by Carlos Troyer (page images at HathiTrust)
Navaho legends. (Pub. for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Company; [etc., etc.], 1897), by Washington Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
Musik der nordamerikanischen Wilden. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1882), by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Flathead Indian music; report on field research, summer 1950 (A.P. & B.W. Merriam?, 1950), by Alan P. Merriam and Barbara Williams Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
Yuman and Yaqui music (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1932), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Menominee music (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1932), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Papago music (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1929), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Pawnee music (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1929), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
I love you (O. Ditson ;, 1906), by Charles Wakefield Cadman and Nelle Richmond Eberhart (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs of the North American Indian : with preface and explanatory notes (T. Presser Co., 1920), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
The Tsimshian: their arts and music (J.J. Augustin, 1951), by Viola E. Garfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian music lecture: the Zuñi Indians and their music; an address designed for reading at musical gatherings, describing the lives, customs, religions, occult practices, and the surprising musical development of the Cliff dwellers of the South west (Theo. Presser co., 1913), by Carlos Troyer and Charles Wakefield Cadman (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indians' book; an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race (Harper, 1935), by Natalie Curtis Burlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
North American Indian musical styles (American Folklore Society, 1954), by Bruno Nettl (page images at HathiTrust)
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)
Tales of the red man : for pianoforte (Arthur P. Schmidt, 1920), by G. A. Grant-Schaefer (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian games and dances with native songs; arranged from American Indian ceremonials and sports, by Alice C. Fletcher. (C. C. Birchard & Co., 1917), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Music of the Pueblos, Apache and Navaho. (Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1962), by David P. McAllester and Donald Nelson Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indians' book; an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race (Harper, 1907), by Natalie Curtis Burlin (page images at HathiTrust)
American Indian melodies : op. 11 (G. Schirmer, 1914), by Arthur Farwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian song book (Denver Allied Arts, 1924), by Jean Allard Jeancon (page images at HathiTrust)
Thunderbird : piano suite founded upon American Indian folk-songs and dances : op. 63 : (White-Smith Music Publishing Co., 1917), by Charles Wakefield Cadman (page images at HathiTrust)
Über die Musik der nordamerikanischen Wilden. (AMS Press, 1973), by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian action songs, a collection of descriptive songs of the Chippewa Indians, with directions for pantomimic representation in schools and community assemblies. (C. C. Birchard, 1921), by Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
North American Indian folklore music (American Indian League, 1911), by Wm. Brewster Humphrey and American Indian League (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian games and dances with native songs, arranged from American Indian ceremonials and sports (C. C. Birchard & company, 1915), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Music of the North American Indians (1917), by Laura Emily Dole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Indian story and song from North America (D. Nutt;, 1900), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A study of Omaha Indian music (Peabody museum of American archælogy and ethnology, 1893), by Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and John Comfort Fillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Native American stringed musical instruments. ([Chicago, 1897), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian flute call and love song (T. Presser, 1914), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
At the sundown : from the Red Willow Pueblos. (Theodore Pressen Co., 1915), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
The sacrifice; an Indian mourning song [in E minor] (Presser, 1915), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian music. (Office of Indian Affairs, 1928), by United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
By the waters of Minnetonka : an Indian love song (Theo. Presser, 1916), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
The Hako : a Pawnee ceremony (1900), by Alice C. Fletcher, Edwin S. Tracy, James R. Murie, Huntington Free Library, and Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
Music of the American Indian : Northwest (Puget Sound) : from the Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Recording Laboratory AFS L34, 1984), by Willard Rhodes and Library of Congress. Recording Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
2 Indian dances. (Carl Fischer, 1917), by Charles Sanford Skilton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Indians' book; an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race (Harper and Brothers, 1923), by Natalie Curtis Burlin (page images at HathiTrust)
Hopi songs. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1908), by Benjamin Ives Gilman and Katharine Ham Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
Anthropological papers ; numbers 19-26 (Government Printing Office, 1943), by John Reed Swanton, Diamond Jenness, Robert F. Heizer, William Harlen Gilbert, James B. Griffin, Regina Flannery, Edna Marie Fisher, Philip Drucker, and Frances Densmore (page images at HathiTrust)
Songs from the Iroquois longhouse: program notes for an album of American Indian music from the eastern woodlands ... (From records in the Archive of American folk song, the Library of Congress) (The Smithsonian Institution, 1942), by William Nelson Fenton and Archive of American Folk Song (page images at HathiTrust)
By the weeping waters : piano solo. (Theodore Presser Co., 1916), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian melodies : for violin and piano (T. Presser, 1917), by Thurlow Lieurance (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian story and song, from North America (Small, Maynard & company, 1900), by Alice C. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian music. (Office of Indian Affairs, 1923), by United States Office of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
Ethnology of the Kwakiutl (Washington, 1921), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
The Osage tribe: the rite of vigil (Washington, 1925), by Francis La Flesche (page images at HathiTrust)
The death song of the "noble savage": a study in the idealization of the American Indian. (1924), by Henry Broadus Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
Four American Indian songs : founded upon tribal melodies : op. 45 (Boston ; New York ; Chicago : White-Smith Music Publishing Company, [1909], 1909), by Charles Wakefield Cadman, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, Theodore Baker, Alice C. Fletcher, Historical Sheet Music Collections of Houghton Library and the Harvard Theatre Collection, and Barton and Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
Indian melodies (New York : G. Lane & C.B. Tippett, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1845., 1845), by Thomas Commuck, Thomas Hastings, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
The ethnography of Flathead Indian music (Western States Branch, American Anthropological Association, 1955), by Alan P. Merriam and Barbara Williams Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
Field recordings of California Indians in the Archive of Folk Music. (The Archive, 1979), by Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Chippewa (OJIBWAY) field recordings in the Archive of Folk Song. (The Archive, 1978), by Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Cherokee field recordings in the Archive of Folk Song. (The Archive, 1978), by Archive of Folk Song (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Navaho Legends, ed. by Washington Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)
Indian Story and Song, from North America, by Alice C. Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)
Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs, by Alice C. Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)

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