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• In Good Faith? Governing Indigenous Australia Through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855 (2011), by Jessie Mitchell (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Democracy Development Machine: Neoliberalism, Radical Pessimism, and Authoritarian Populism in Mayan Guatemala (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Nicholas Copeland (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), ed. by Ernest Stromberg, contrib. by Matthew Dennis, Patricia Bizzell, Angela Pulley Hudson, Malea D. Powell, Janna Knittel, Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Karen A. Redfield, Robin Derosa, Anthony G. Murphy, Ellen L. Arnold, Peter D'Errico, and Richard Clark Eckert (page images at Pitt)
• Revolutionary Activities Within the United States: The American Indian Movement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, April 6, 1976 (Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Merritt B. Pound (PDF at Georgia)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (first edition; New York: Harper and Bros., 1881), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (based on the second edition, 1885), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye (HTML with commentary at nanations.com)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (new edition, with report of needs of Indians in California; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1888), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (new edition, with report of needs of Indians in California; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Helen Hunt Jackson, contrib. by Henry Benjamin Whipple and Julius H. Seelye
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians (Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1829), by Jeremiah Evarts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hearings Before the Joint Commission of the Congress of the United States, Sixty-Third Congress (18 parts in 2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1913-1914), by United States Congress Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs
  • Volume 1 (Parts 1-10): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Parts 11-18): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes (may be unlabeled): page images at HathiTrust
• The Indian Dispossessed (revised edition; New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, c1905), by Seth K. Humphrey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Indian Question (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1878), by Elwell S. Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Indian Wards (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1880), by George Washington Manypenny (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cherokee Indians, With Special Reference to Their Relations With the United States Government (New York: The Grafton Press, c1907), by Thomas Valentine Parker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), by Charles C. Royce, contrib. by Cyrus Thomas (PDF at MSU)
• The Indian Question, by Francis Amasa Walker (page images at MOA)
• The Red Man's Rebuke (Hartford, MI: C.H. Engle, c1893), by Simon Pokagon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana; Embracing Also a Brief Statement of the Indian Policy of the Government, and Other Historical Matter Relating to the Indian Question (Plymouth, IN: D. McDonald and Co., 1899), by Daniel McDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Report of the United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory, by United States Indian Inspector for the Indian Territory (partial serial archives)
• Chief Flying Hawk's Tales; The True Story of Custer's Last Fight (New York: Alliance Press, c1936), by Flying Hawk and M. I. McCreight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Half-Breed Scrip, Chippewas of Lake Superior: The Correspondence and Action Under the 7th Clause of the 2d Article of the Treaty with the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, Concluded at La Pointe in the State of Wisconsin, September 30, 1854 (Washington: GPO, 1874), by United States Department of the Interior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Indian Chief: An Account of the Labours, Losses, Sufferings and Oppression of Ke-zig-ko-e-ne-ne (David Sawyer), a Chief of the Ojibbeway Indians in Canada West (1867), by Conrad Van Dusen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarks on the Policy and Practice of the United States and Great Britain in Their Treatment of Indians (Boston: F.T. Gray, 1827), by Lewis Cass (multiple formats at Google)
• Chief Joseph's Own Story (reprinted from the North American Review, April 1879, with additional material), by Joseph (Nez Percé Chief), contrib. by Donald MacRae and William Hobart Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)

• 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)
• Letter Book of the Indian Agency at Fort Wayne, 1809-1815 (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v21; 1961), ed. by Gayle Thornbrough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indians of Southern California in 1852, by Benjamin Davis Wilson, ed. by John Walton Caughey (HTML at LOC)

• The Problem of Indian Administration: Report of a Survey Made at the Request of Honorable Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and Submitted to Him, February 21, 1928 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1928), by Brookings Institution Institute for Government Research, contrib. by Lewis Meriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2021), by Susan Burch (PDF files with commentary via uncpress.org)
• The Indian's Side of the Indian Question (Boston : D. Lothrop, c1887), by William Barrows (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California, by Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (HTML at LOC)

• Indian Self-Rule: First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations From Roosevelt to Reagan (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), ed. by Kenneth R. Philp (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Preliminary Statement: A Sample "Declaration of Indian Purpose" Prepared at the Committee Meetings April 26-30, For Use at the AICC June 13-20 to Help Work Out a Final Declaration of Indian Purpose, by Erin Forrest, George Heron, Tom Mason, Helen Peterson, John Rainer, Georgeann Robinson, and D'Arcy McNickle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Memories of a Soldier (New York and London: The Century Co., c1928), by Hugh Lenox Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Akwesasne Notes (partial serial archives)

• Indians of the Southern Colonial Frontier: The Edmond Atkin Report and Plan of 1755 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1954), by Edmond Atkin, ed. by Wilbur R. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Estimate of Appropriations Required to Comply With Treaty Stipulations Entered Into Between the Confederate States and Certain Indian Tribes (with prefatory messages by Davis and Seddon; 1864), by Confederate States of America Bureau of Indian Affairs, contrib. by Jefferson Davis and James A. Seddon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (with supporting materials; 2015), by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (PDF files at trc.ca)
• The Story of a National Crime: Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada, the Wards of the Nation, Our Allies in the Revolutionary War, Our Brothers-in-Arms in the Great War (Ottawa: J. Hope and Sons, 1922), by P. H. Bryce (PDF at caid.ca)
• Minutes of the General Council of Indian Chiefs and Principal Men, Held at Orillia, Lake Simcoe Narrows, on Thursday, the 30th, and Friday, the 31st July, 1846, on the Proposed Removal of the Smaller Communities and the Establishment of Manual Labour Schools (1846), by Indian Chiefs and Principal Men (multiple formats at Google)
• The Six-Nations Indians in Canada (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, ca.1896), by J. B. Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Remarks on the Policy and Practice of the United States and Great Britain in Their Treatment of Indians (Boston: F.T. Gray, 1827), by Lewis Cass (multiple formats at Google)

• Why Reject the Treaty? A Maori-Pakeha Viewpoint (2008), by Emily Bailey (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• The Maori Messenger (Ko te Karere Maori) (partial serial archives)
• Te Manuhiri Tuarangi Maori Intelligencer (1861) (full serial archives)

• A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006), by Joan G. Fairweather (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany (London: HMSO, 1918), by South-West Africa Administrator's Office (page images at Florida)

• A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006), by Joan G. Fairweather (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Report by the Commissioner for Native Affairs, Relative To the Acquisition and Tenure of Land by Natives in the Transvaal (Pretoria: Printed at the Government Printing and Stationary Office, 1904), by Transvaal Native Affairs Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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