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• Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction

• Yellow Thunder, Our Little Indian Cousin, by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Master of the strong hearts (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1898), by Elbridge Streeter Brooks, illust. by William de la Montagne Cary (page images at Florida)

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• Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Washington, DC: Government Print. Office, 1881), by Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Material culture of the Menomini, by Alanson Skinner. (New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, 1921), by Alanson Buck Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of woodcraft and Indian lore, (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & co., 1912), by Ernest Thompson Seton (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Indian life, ed. by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, illust. by C. Grant La Farge (Gutenberg ebook)
• Societies of the Kiowas, by Robert Harry Lowie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Travels through North and South Carolina (Philadelphia: : Printed by James & Johnson., M,DCC,XCI. [1791]), by William Bartram and James Trenchard, illust. by William Bartram (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, and Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Travels through the interior parts of North America (Philadelphia: : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]), by Jonathan Carver and Joseph Banks (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A concise and impartial history of the American Revolution. To which is prefixed, a general history of North and South America. : Together with an account of the discovery and settlement of North America, and a view of the progress, character, and political state of the colonies previous to the Revolution. : From the best authorities. / By John Lendrum. ; Published according to act of Congress. ; Vol. I[-II]. (Printed at Boston, : By I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, (proprietors of the work) Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street., 1795), by John Lendrum (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia. Containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations. : Together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations. / By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the College of Philadelphia. ; [Four lines from Malebranche in French] (Philadelphia: : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, between Second and Third Streets., [1774]), by Benjamin Rush, Richard Huck-Saunders, and American Philosophical Society (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada; who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; : to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character of the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. : Copy right secured. ([Exeter, N.H.] : Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, Exeter., 1800), by Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An account of the remarkable occurrences in the life and travels of Col. James Smith, (now a citizen of Bourbon County, Kentucky) during his captivity with the Indians, in the years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59, in which the customs, manners, traditions, theological sentiments, mode of warfare, military tactics, discipline and encampments, treatment of prisoners, &c. are better explained, and more minutely related, than has been heretofore done, by any author on that subject. Together with a description of the soil, timber and waters, where he travelled with the Indians, during his captivity. : To which is added, a brief account of some very uncommon occurrences, which transpired after his return from captivity; as well as of the different campaigns carried on against the Indians to the westward of Fort Pitt, since the year 1755, to the present date. / Written by himself. (Lexington [Ky.]: : Printed by John Bradford, on Main Street., 1799), by James Smith (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmorland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs and manners of the aborigines of North-America. (Hartford: : Printed and sold [by Barzillai Hudson and George Goodwin] near the bridge., [1780?]), by Moses Van Campen (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada; who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; : to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character of the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. : Copy right secured. ([Exeter, N.H.] : Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, Exeter., 1800), by Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres (HTML at Evans TCP)

• 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)

• 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)

• American Indian life, ed. by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons, illust. by C. Grant La Farge (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs, by Alice C. Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Indian potlatch [electronic resource] : substance of a paper read before C.M.S. annual conference at Metlakatla, B.C., 1899 / (Toronto : Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, [1899?]), by J. B. McCullagh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When patlatches [sic] are observed [electronic resource] / ([S.l. : s.n., 18--]), by James Deans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fighting with property; a study of Kwakiutl potlatching and warfare, 1792-1930. (New York, J. J. Augustin, [pref. 1950]), by Helen Codere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Klee Wyck (1941), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Indians of Lassen Volcanic National Park and Vicinity, by Paul E. Schulz (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Six-Nations Indians in Canada (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, ca.1896), by J. B. Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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