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• American Indian Place Names in Rhode Island, Past and Present, by Francis Joseph O'Brien (HTML at rootsweb.com)
• Indian names of places in Rhode Island: collected by Usher Parsons, M.D., for the R. I. historical society. (Providence, Knowles, Anthony & co., printers, 1861), by Usher Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Bocootawanaukes, or, The Fire Nation; With Historical and Ethnological Notes (Algonquian series #6; New York: F. P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System (1884), by Joseph Laurent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Algonquian series, ([New York, F.P. Harper, 1901]), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical address delivered before the citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts at the public celebration, May 26, 1911, of the two hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the settlement; with five appendices, viz: Meaning of Indian local names, The cartography of Springfield, Old place names in Springfield, Unrecorded deed of Nippumsuit, Unrecorded deed of Paupsunnuck, (Springfield, Mass., Connecticut Valley historical society, 1916), by Charles H. Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onomatología geográfica de Morelos / (México, D.F. : Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, 1888 :), by Vicente Reyes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian local names, with their interpretation. (York, Pa., The author, 1885), by Stephen Gill Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Viking and the red man; the Old Norse origin of the Algonquin language, (New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1940-1956), by Reider Thorbjorn Sherwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish and Indian place names of California, their meaning and their romance, (San Francisco, Calif., A.M. Robertson, 1914), by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Indian stories : with glossary of Indiana Indian names / (Indianapolis : Sentinel, 1909), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian bulletin for 1867[-1868] / by Rev. N.W. Jones. (New York : Printed by C.A. Alvord, 1867-69), by N. W. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noms géographiques de la province de Québec et des provinces maritimes empruntés aux langues sauvages, avec carte indiquant les territoires occupés autrefois par les races aborigènes; etymologie, traduction et orthographie. (Québec, E. Marcotte, imprimeur et relieur, 1906), by Eugène Rouillard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected manuscripts of General John S. Clark, relating to the aboriginal history of the Susquehanna, (Athens, Pa., 1931), by John S. Clark, Louise Welles Murray, and Cayuga County Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Indian stories : with glossary of Indiana Indian names / (Indianapolis, Ind. : Sentinel Printing Company, 1908), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noms sauvages; étymologie ... (Québec, É. Marcotte, 1905), by Eugène Rouillard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A provisional gazetteer of Florida place-names of Indian derivation, either obsolescent or retained, together with others of recent application. (Tallahassee, 1956), by James Clarence Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notions de la langue nahuatl indispensables à la parfaite compréhension de la partie mexicaine des ouvrages où l'étymologie des noms géographiques indigènes est expliquée, (México, Imp. del Museo n. de arqueologia, historia y etnologia, 1912), by Cecilio Agustín Robelo, trans. by E. Got (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California place names of Indian origin, (Berkeley, University of California press, 1916), by A. L. Kroeber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Indian place-names in northern Maine, with explanations derived from the Indians and a cross-index, being a part of the appendix to "Woods and lakes of Maine" (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1884), by Lucius L. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian place names: Indian names of some of the streams, islands, &c., on the Penobscot and St. John rivers in Maine, ([Bangor, Me.] Privately printed, 1903), by Moses Greenleaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Spanish and Indian place names, their pronounciation, meaning and location, (Los Angeles, Calif., Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1931), by Laura Kelly McNary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verwandtschaftsnamen und Eheformen der Nordamerikanischen Volksstämme. (Rostock, 1888), by Franz Bernhöft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The name book : a dictionary of American Indian words from which girls can derive their Camp Fire names / (New York : Camp Fire Girls, [191-?]), by Charlotte V. Gulick and Camp Fire Girls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota geographical names derived from the Chippewa Language, ([St. Paul, Pioneer press company, 1887]), by Joseph Alexander Gilfillan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nombres geográficos mexicanos del distrito federal. (Mexico, Tip. viuda de F. Diaz de Leon sucrs., 1910), by Cecilio Augustin Robelo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Derivation of the name Powhatan / (1904), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Algonquian names of some mountains and hills. ([n.p., 190-?]), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian place names in Vermont. ([Burlington, Vt.], 1957), by John Charles Huden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names and history of the Sault Ste. Marie canal / (Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Free Press Printing Co., 1889), by Dwight H. Kelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names and meanings : a handbook of place and personal names from the languages of North American Indian nations and tribes / (Washington, D.C. : Washington Information Bureau, c1935), by Maurice Seal White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Indian names of Boston, and their meaning / (Cambridge [Mass.] : John Wilson and Son. University Press, 1886), by Eben Norton Horsford, Huntington Free Library. fmo, Heye Foundation. fmo Museum of the American Indian, and New England Historic Genealogical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discovery and conquests of the Northwest; including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., in incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great lakes and the Mississippi valley. (Chicago, Cushing, Thomas & company, 1880), by Rufus Blanchard and Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian place-names on Long island and islands adjacent, with their probable significations, (New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1911), by William Wallace Tooker, Alexander Francis Chamberlain, and N.Y.) John Jermain Memorial Library (Sag Harbor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues, the first ever published on the grammatical system, (Quebec, Printed by L. Brousseau, 1884), by Joseph Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woods and lakes of Maine; a trip from Moosehead lake to New Brunswick in a birch-bark canoe, to which are added some Indian place-names and their meanings, now first published. (Boston, J. R. Osgood and company, 1884), by Lucius L. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first map-maker. A biography: with letters, unpublished manuscripts and a reprint of Mr. Greenleaf's rare paper on Indian place-names, also a bibliography of the maps of Maine; (Bangor, Printed for the De Burians [by C. H. Glass & co.], 1902), by Edgar Crosby Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lands of Rhode Island : as they were known to Caunounicus and Miantunnomu when Roger Williams came in 1636 : an Indian map of the principal locations known to the Nahigansets, and elaborate historical notes / (Providence, R.I. : Published by the author, 1904), by Sidney S. Rider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nombres geográficos indígenas de la república de Honduras / (Tegucigalpa : Tipografía nacional, 1901), by Alberto Membreño (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études étymologiques sur l'antiquité américaine; (Paris, J. Maisonneuve, 1891), by Léon Douay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Indians of New Jersey : their origin and development, manners and customs, language, religion and government : with notices of some Indian place names / (Paterson, N.J. : The Press printing and publishing company, 1894), by William Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian relics in Concord; read before the Concord antiquarian society, ([Concord, Mass.] The Concord antiquarian society, [1902?]), by Adams Tolman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on Nonacoicus : the Indian name of Major Willard's farm at Groton, Mass. : at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held May 11, 1893 / ([Cambridge? Mass. : s.n., 1893?]), by Samuel A. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names in New-York : with a selection from other states, and some Onondaga names of plants, etc. / (Fayetteville, N.Y. : Printed by H.C. Beauchamp, 1893), by William Martin Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Indian fishing stations upon Long Island with historical and ethnological notes. (New York, Francis P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Indian stories, (Indianapolis, Ind., Sentinel printing company, 1908), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The discovery and conquests of the Northwest : including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley / (Chicago : Cushing, Thomas & Co., 1880), by Rufus Blanchard and Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) : the whole subject complete in one volume ... / (Chicago : Mas-sin-na'-gan Co., 1888), by Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians, (New York, Columbia University Press, 1934), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wisconsin Indian place-name legends / ([Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Folklore Society, 1948?]), by Dorothy Moulding Brown and Wisconsin Folklore Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonquian terms Patawomeke (Potomac) and Massawomeke : with historical and ethnological notes / (New York : F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peregrinacion de los aztecas y nombres geográficos indígenas de Sinaloa; (Mexico, Imp. del Sagrado corazon de Jesus, 1892), by Eustaquio Buelna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian names of places in the borough of Brooklyn : with historical and ethnological notes / (New York : F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The names Chickahominy, Pamunkey, and the Kuskarawaokes of Captain John Smith : with historical and ethnological notes/ (New York : F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Algonquian names of the Siouan tribes of Virginia : with historical and ethnological notes / (New York : F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nombres geográficos indígenas del estado de Mexico. (Estudio crítico etimológico) (Cuernavaca, L. G. Miranda, impresor, 1900), by Cecilio Agustín Robelo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The origin and meaning of the Indian place names of Maryland. (Baltimore, Waverly Press, [1961]), by Hamill Thomas Kenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names of places in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with interpretations of some of them, (Worcester, Mass. [The Commonwealth press], 1909), by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names of places, etc., in and on the borders of Connecticut : with interpretations of some of them / (Hartford : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1881), by J. Hammond Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand book of tribal names of Pennsylvania : together with signification of Indian words, also a history of Great Council of Pennsylvania. With articles pertaining to the Improved Order of Red Men. (Philadelphia, 1908), by Thomas K. Donnalley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spanish and Indian place names of California : their meaning and their romance / (San Francisco : A. M. Robertson, 1922), by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names of places in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with interpretations of some of them, (Worcester, Mass., [The Commonwealth Press], 1905), by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Indian geographical names around Santa Fe, New Mexico / ([Washington, D.C.] : American Anthropologist, [1920]), by John Peabody Harrington and American Anthropological Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal names of Indians of New Jersey: being a list of six hundred and fifty such names, gleaned mostly from Indians deeds of the seventeenth century. (Paterson, N.J. The Paterson history club, 1904), by William Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woods and lakes of Maine : a trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a birch-bark canoe : to which are added some Indian place-names and their meanings now first published / (Boston : Ticknor and Co., 1883), by Luther Prescott Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) : the whole subject complete in one volume : illustrated with numerous appropriate engravings / (Evansville, Ind. : Unigraphic, 1977), by Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• California place names of Indian origin, (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1916), by A. L. Kroeber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular of information regarding Indian popular names. ([Washington : Govt. print. off., 1915]), by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names of places near the Great Lakes, (Detroit, Mich. [Printed by Detroit Free Press Printing Co.], 1888), by Dwight H. Kelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Indian villages and place names in Pennsylvania / (Lewisburg, PA : Wennawoods Publishing ;, 1998, c1928), by George Patterson Donehoo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catálogo de la colección de antropología del Museo nacional, (México : Impr. del Museo nacional, 1895), by Museo Nacional de México, Ricardo E. Cicero, and Alfonso L. Herrera (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian place names of New England. (New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1962), by John Charles Huden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names in New-York, with a selection from other states, and some Onondaga names of plants, etc... (Fayetteville, N.Y., Printed by H. C. Beauchamp, 1893), by William Martin Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians / (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1916), by John Peabody Harrington, Frederick Webb Hodge, Heye Foundation. fmo Museum of the American Indian, and Huntington Free Library. fmo (page images at HathiTrust)

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