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• The Siwash, their life, legends and tales Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Calvert, 1895), by J. A. Costello (page images at HathiTrust)

• An analysis of Coeur d'Alene Indian myths (American Folklore Society, 1948), by Gladys Amanda Reichard and Adele Froelich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mythology of the Thompson Indians (AMS Press, 1975), by James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction [to James Teit's Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia] (s.n., 1898), by Franz Boas and James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Folk-tales of the coast Salish (The American folk-lore society, G. E. Stechert and co., agents, 1934), by Thelma Adamson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Siwash, Their Life, Legends and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Calvert, 1895), by J. A. Costello
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Legacy Washington
• British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné (A. Constable and Company, ltd., 1907), by Charles Hill-Tout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné (Copp Clark Co., 1907), by Charles Hill-Tout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada (s.n., 1900), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Benjamin Sulte, Charles Hill-Tout, Léon Gérin, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada] (s.n., 1902), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Charles Hill-Tout, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses chez les tribus indiennes du vaste territoire de l'Orégon dépendant des Etats-Unis d'Amérique (J. Lefort, 1882), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux Montagnes Rocheuses et séjour chez les tribus indiennes de l'Orégon (Etats-Unis) (V. Devaux;, 1873), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada. (s.n., 1900), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Léon Gérin, Charles Hill-Tout, Benjamin Sulte, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Siwash : their life, legends and tales : Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest (Calvert Co., 1895), by J. A. Costello and Washington State Library. Classics in Washington History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Far West, the home of the Salish and Déné (A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Charles Hill-Tout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Siwash, Their Life, Legends, and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacfic Northwest, by J. A. Costello (Gutenberg ebook)

• Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society v11; Lancaster, PA and New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1917), ed. by Franz Boas, contrib. by James Alexander Teit, Livingston Farrand, Marian K. Gould, and Herbert Joseph Spinden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin tribes. (American folk-lore society, 1917), by Franz Boas, Herbert Joseph Spinden, Marian K. Gould, Livingston Farrand, and James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raven helps the Indians : a Skokomish legend ([National Institute of Education?] :, 1981), by Emily Miller, Bruce Miller, National Institute of Education (U.S.). Multicultural/Bilingual Division, National Institute of Education (U.S.). Educational Equity Group, and Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian romances of the western frontier (Exposition Press, 1954), by Martha Kosanke and Gren Coombes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethnographical album of the North Pacific coasts of America and Asia (AMS Press, 1975), by Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1903) and American Museum of Natural History (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Far West, the home of the Salish and Déné (A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Charles Hill-Tout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The conquest of the Coeur d'alenes, Spokanes and Palouses : the expeditions of Colonels E.J. Steptoe and George Wright against the "northern Indians" in 1858. (J.W. Graham, 1912), by Benjamin Franklin Manring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of the Coeur d'Alenes, Spokanes and Palouses : the expeditions of Colonels E.J. Steptoe and George Wright against the "northern Indians" in 1858. (Printed by Inland Printing Company, 1912), by Benjamin Franklin Manring (page images at HathiTrust)

• Claims of Colville and Okanogan Indians. : Hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian affairs, House of representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 9270. April 6, 1926. (Govt. Print. Off, 1926), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lillooet Indians (AMS Press, 1975), by James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lillooet Indians (E.J. Brill;, 1906), by James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan peoples of northeastern Washington. (Reprinted by Human Relations Area Files, 1954), by Verne Frederick Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Thompson Indians of British Columbia (extract from the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History v2; 1900), by James Alexander Teit, ed. by Franz Boas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia Collected and Annotated (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society v6; 1898), by James Alexander Teit, contrib. by Franz Boas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia ... (For the American folk-lore society by Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1898), by James Alexander Teit and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thompson Indians of British Columbia (AMS Press, 1975), by James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada (British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1899), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, Benjamin Sulte, Charles Hill-Tout, and Ethnological Survey of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mythology of the Thompson Indians (E. J. Brill;, 1912), by James Alexander Teit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. ([New York], 1900), by James Alexander Teit and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Claims of Colville and Okanogan Indians. : Hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian affairs, House of representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 9270. April 6, 1926. (Govt. Print. Off, 1926), by United States House Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Flathead Indians (reprint of Ronan's Historical Sketch of the Flathead Indian Nation, with an added introduction and index; Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1965), by Peter Ronan, contrib. by Michael S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical Sketch of the Flathead Indian Nation From the Year 1813 to 1890: Embracing the History of the Establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. (Helena, MT: Journal Pub. Co., c1890), by Peter Ronan
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sixth Report on the North-western Tribes of Canada (ca. 1890), by British Association for the Advancement of Science (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Selish ([Missoula?, 1919), by Mont.) Montana State University (Missoula (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890. Embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. With sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries, wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads, and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days ... (Journal Publishing Co., 1890), by Peter Ronan and Mont.) Journal Publishing Co. (Helena (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Coast Salish of British Columbia / dc by Homer G. Barnett. (Eugene : University of Oregon, 1955., 1955), by H. G. Barnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gustavus Sohon's portraits of Flathead and Pend d'Oreille Indians, 1854. (Smithsonian Institution, 1948), by John Canfield Ewers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trails through western woods (Everett & co., 1910), by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian days of the long ago (World Book Co., 1915), by Edward S. Curtis and F. N. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among the An-ko-me-nums or Flathead tribes of Indians of the Pacific coast (W. Briggs, 1907), by Thomas Crosby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian days of the long ago (World Book Company, 1914), by Edward S. Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trails through western woods (The Alice Harriman company, 1910), by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages aux Montagnes Rocheuses : et une année de séjour chez les tribus Indiennes du vaste territoire de l'Orégon, dépendant des États-Unis d'Amérique (P. J. Hanico, imprimeur du Saint Siége, de la Sacrée Congrégation de la Propagande et de l'Archevêché de Malines, 1844), by Pierre-Jean de Smet, André van Iseghem, and Jesuits (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Smet's Letters and sketches, 1841-1842 (1906), by Pierre-Jean de Smet and Jesuits (page images at HathiTrust)
• The native races of the Pacific states of North America. Volume I, wild tribes (D. Appleton, 1875), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the Snanaimuq (s.n., 1889), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixth report on the north-western tribes of Canada (The Association, 1890), by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada, Horatio Hale, and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the north-western tribes of Canada ninth report of the committee consisting of Dr. E.B. Haliburton, and Mr. H. Hale (The Association, 1894), by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada and Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890 embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. : with sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries : wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days (Journal Pub. Co., 1890), by Peter Ronan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen zu den Felsen-Gebirgen und ein Jahr unter den wilden Indianer-Stämmen des Oregon-Gebietes (F. Saler, 1865), by Pierre-Jean de Smet and L. Hinssen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaggi alle Montagne Rocciose (Dalla Stamperia Di Franscesco Lao, 1847), by Pierre-Jean de Smet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land of the Flatheads : a sketch of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, its past and present, its hopes and possibilities for the future ... (Pioneer Press Mfg. Depts., 1905), by W. H. Smead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Selish; a pageant-masque written by students of the State University of Montana, and produced by the University and the community of Missoula under direction of Mrs. Margaret P. Ganssle, July 30, 1919. (University of Montana?, 1919), by Mont. : 1965-1994). Department of English University of Montana (Missoula (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890. Embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. With sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries, wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads, and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days ... (Ross & Haines, 1968), by Peter Ronan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trails through western woods (Everett & Co., 1910), by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rare Salish blanket. ([Vreeland Press, inc.], 1926), by William C. Orchard and Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ethnography of Flathead Indian music (Western States Branch, American Anthropological Association, 1955), by Alan P. Merriam and Barbara Williams Merriam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast, by Thomas Crosby (Gutenberg ebook)
• Trails Through Western Woods, by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders (Gutenberg ebook)

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