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• The Fire Bird (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Gordon Grant and Lee Thayer
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Indian Legends; and Other Poems (New York: J. C. Derby, et al., 1855), by Mary Gardiner Horsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traits of the Aborigines of America: A Poem (Cambridge, MA: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at Google)
• The Huron Chief, and Other Poems (1830), by Adam Kidd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • HTML at Michigan
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text

• Legends of the Northwest (1881), by Hanford Lennox Gordon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Viking Mettles: Vikings on Lake Superior Early in the Eleventh Century (Ironwood, MI: J.G.R. Baner, ca. 1930), by Johan G. R. Banér (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tisáyac of the Yosemite (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., ca. 1890), by M. B. M. Toland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Canadian Born (Toronto: G. N. Morang and Co., 1903), by E. Pauline Johnson (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), by E. Pauline Johnson
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Toronto
• The White Wampum (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1895), by E. Pauline Johnson (HTML at canadianpoetry.ca)

• The Rape of Florida, by Albery Allson Whitman (HTML at Michigan)

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

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

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

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• Native Peoples of North America (updated edition; 2019), by Susan Stebbins (PDF and Epub with commentary at mountainscholar.org)
• Anthropological Papers (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology) (full serial archives)
• The Indian Tribes of North America (Washington: GPO, 1953), by John Reed Swanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropological Records (University of California) (partial serial archives)
• University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)
• The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of Eminent Individuals, and an Historical Account of The Different Tribes (15th edition; New York: J. B. Alden, c1880), by Samuel G. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, From Original Notes and Manuscripts (new revised edition; Rochester: Wanzer, Foot and Co., 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Indian in his Wigwam: or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America, from Original Notes and Manuscripts (Buffalo: Derby and Hewson; Auburn: Derby, Miller and Co., 1848), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• The Indian To-Day: The Past and Future of the First American (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1915), by Charles A. Eastman (Gutenberg text and page images)
• 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 Indians of North America (published anonymously, but attributed to George Mogridge, who also wrote as "Old Humphrey"; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1843), contrib. by Old Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian's Secret of Health; or, What the White Race May Learn from the Indian (new and enlarged edition; Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, 1917), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)
• Remarks on the Indians of North America, in a Letter to an Edinburgh Reviewer (London, 1822), by Saxe Bannister (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, With a Plan for Their Melioration (2 volumes in 1; New York: Printed for W. Borradaile, 1824), by James Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of This Continent (Philadelphia: J. Crukshank, 1784), by Anthony Benezet
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • 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)
• 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)
• Western Scenes and Reminiscences, Together with Thrilling Legends and Traditions of the Red Men of the Forest; To Which is Added Several Narratives of Adventures Among the Indians (Auburn: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Logan, Shawnee Chief (1954), ed. by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v54, #3, with errata slip: New York: Columbia University, 1913), by Almon Wheeler Lauber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• An Interesting Account of the Voyages and Travels of Captains Lewis and Clarke, in the years 1804-5, and 6 (spurious expedition history; Baltimore: P. Mauro, 1813), ed. by William Fisher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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: Printed for J. Whiston and 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)
• Pre-Historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1865), by John Lubbock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, by Ellsworth Huntington (Gutenberg text)
• The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail (Guthrie, OK: Co-Operative Pub. Co., c1936), by Sam P. Ridings (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (39 volumes, published 1882-1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (multiple formats at archive.org)

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