Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
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Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC: Government Print. Office, 1881), by Lewis Henry Morgan- Life Among the Indians, by George Catlin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Native Races of North America (Toronto: Methodist Mission Rooms, 1895), ed. by W. H. Withrow
- The Origin of the North American Indians: With a Faithful Description of Their Manners and Customs, Both Civil and Military, Their Religions, Languages, Dress, and Ornaments, To Which is Prefixed a Brief View of the Creation of the World (New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1844), by John McIntosh (page images at Wisconsin)
- Tales of the North American Indians, and Adventures of the Early Settlers in America (London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844), by Barbara Hawes (multiple formats at Google)
- First Penthouse Dwellers of America (second edition; Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, c1946), by Ruth Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indian Scout Talks: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Charles A. Eastman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Manners and Customs of the Indians: An Extract From His "New English Canaan", 1637, by Thomas Morton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages Committed By the Indians in Their Wars With the White People: Also, an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Encampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. (1811), by Archibald Loudon
- Klamath Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930), by Leslie Spier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Ohme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by John Dunn Hunter (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
- Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U.S. National Museum (Washington: GPO, 1899), by Joseph D. McGuire
- Traits of American-Indian Life and Character (London: Smith, Taylor, Smith, Elder, 1853), by Peter Skene Ogden (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Chinigchinich: A Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians at the Missionary Establishment of St. Juan Capistrano, Alta-California, by Gerónimo Boscana, trans. by Alfred Robinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- Kitchi-Gami: Wanderings Around Lake Superior (London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Johann Georg Kohl (multiple formats at archive.org)
- O-Gî-Mäw-Kwě Mit-i-Gwä-Kî (Queen of the Woods); Also, Brief Sketch of the Algaic Language (with a biography of the author by the publisher; Hartford, MI: C. H. Engle, 1899), by Simon Pokagon, contrib. by C. H. Engle (page images at HathiTrust)
- O-Gî-Mäw-Kwě Mit-i-Gwä-Kî (Queen of the Woods); Also, Brief Sketch of the Algaic Language (third edition, with a biography of the author by the publisher; Hartford, MI: C.H. Engle, 1901), by Simon Pokagon, contrib. by C. H. Engle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Social Organization and Ritualistic Ceremonies of the Blackfoot Indians (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v7, including The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians and Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians; 1911-1912), by Clark Wissler
- My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907), by James Willard Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944: The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Schooner "St. Roch" (originally published 1948; this edition 1969), by Henry A. Larsen (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- People of Kauwerak: Legends of the Northern Eskimo (1973), by William A. Oquilluk, contrib. by Laurel L. Bland (HTML at alaskool.org)
- Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
- A Comparative Study of The Mayas and the Lacandones (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., for Archaeological Institute of America, 1907), by Alfred M. Tozzer
- The Peninsula of Yucatan: Medical, Biological, Meteorological and Sociological Studies (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #431; 1933), ed. by George Cheever Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Comparative Study of The Mayas and the Lacandones (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., for Archaeological Institute of America, 1907), by Alfred M. Tozzer
- Before Kukulkán: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2017), by Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina, Travis W. Stanton, and David A. Freidel, contrib. by Traci Ardren (page images with commentary at Arizona)
- Games of the North American Indians (ca. 1907), by Stewart Culin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indian Games: An Historical Research (1886), by Andrew McFarland Davis (Gutenberg text)
- Klee Wyck (1941), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Relationship Systems of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian (Publications of the American Ethnological Society #11; 1928), by Theresa Mayer Durlach (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, by Franz Boas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Relationship Systems of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian (Publications of the American Ethnological Society #11; 1928), by Theresa Mayer Durlach (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Relationship Systems of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian (Publications of the American Ethnological Society #11; 1928), by Theresa Mayer Durlach (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Six-Nations Indians in Canada (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, ca.1896), by J. B. Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Moccasin Maker, by E. Pauline Johnson (Gutenberg text)
- An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58 and '59 (Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During His Captivity With the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58 and '59 (Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1870), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dahcotah, Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling, by Mary H. Eastman, contrib. by Caroline M. Kirkland (Gutenberg text)
- Dahcotah: or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling (New York: J. Wiley, 1849), by Mary H. Eastman, contrib. by Caroline M. Kirkland, illust. by Seth Eastman
- Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story (St. Paul: Webb Pub. Co., 1921), by Waheenee, ed. by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, trans. by Edward Goodbird, illust. by F. N. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Societies of the Kiowa (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v11 part 11; 1916), by Robert Harry Lowie
- Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman
- Indian Boyhood (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915), by Charles A. Eastman, illust. by E. L. Blumenschein (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851, by Frank Blackwell Mayer, ed. by Bertha L. Heilbron (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee, (Called) William Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians (Toronto: Printed for O. Tubbee by H. Stephens, 1852), by Okah Tubbee and Laah Ceil Manatoi Elaah Tubbee (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of The Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee: Alias Wm. Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians (1848), by Okah Tubbee and L. L. Allen
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Year's Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 (1841), by George Catlin
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