Native American

Our Native American CD contains 202 books, organized by eastern America, western America, archaeology and anthropology, works of Charles Eastman and Zitkala-Sa, exploration expeditions and pioneer experiences in Indian territory, and fiction and poetry.

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Table of Contents

• General
• The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919
• Folk-lore and Legends, North American Indian
• Four American Indians: King Philip, Tecumseh, Pontiac, and Osceola by Edson Whitney and Frances Perry
• The Indian Fairy Book from the Original Legends by Cornelius Mathews
• Indian Story and Song from North America by alice C. Fletcher
• The Myth of Hiawatha and other Oral Lebends, Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians by Henry R. Schoolcraft, 1856
• The North American Indian edited by Frederick Webb Hodge
• Short Sketches from Oldest America by John B. Driggs
• Thirty Indian Legends by margaret Bemister, 1917
• Traditions of the North American Indians by James Ahearn Jones
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Eastern US and Canada
• An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha or Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard
• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young, 1903
• Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Leland
• Conversion des Sauvages qui ont este Baptise en la Nouvelle France cette annee 1610 [in French]
• Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador, with some interesting particulars respecting the natives of the country
• La Detaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois par le Sagamos, 1607 [in French]
• First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island by William Wallace Tooker
• Hochelagans and Mohawks, a link in Iroquois history by W.D. Lighthall, 1899
• A New Hochlegan Burying-Ground Discovered by W.D. Lighthall, 1898
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
• Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland by Joseph Noad, 1859
• Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois or Six Nations and History of the Tuscarora by Elias Johnson
• About the Iroquois Constitution (short)
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years With the Indian Tribes of the American Frontiers, 1812-1842 by Henry Schoolcraft, 1851
• The Princess Pocahantas by Virginia Watson
• A Ramble of 6000 Miles Through the USA by S.A. Ferrall, 1832
• Report of Mr. W.E. Cormack's Journey in Search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
• Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay D'Espoir [Newfoundland]
• A Sketch of the History of Oneonta [New York] by Dudley M. Campbell, 1883
• Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs), 1917
• The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
• Tecumseh, a Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People by Ethel T. Raymond, 1915
• A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara K. Bayliss
• Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by James Bovell MacKenzie
• The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia in July 1742
• Treaty of Greenville: Wyandots, Delawares, etc. concluded August 3, 1795
• War Chief of the Ottawas, a chronicle of the Pontiac War by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
• War Chief of the Six Naitons, a Chronicle of Joseph Bant by Louis Aubrey Wood, 1915
• Western America and Mexico and South America
• Among the Sioux. a Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas by R.J. Creswell
• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk by Black Hawk (re: Black Hawk War of 1832)
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
• Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Poston
• Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes of the US, Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana by C.C. Royce
• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick J. Turner
• Great Indian Chief of the West or Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
• History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
• Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by Alfred Carmichael
• Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity by Galen Clark, 1904
• In Indian Mexico, a narrrative of travel and labor by Frederick Starr
• In the Time that Was [legends of the Chilkats, tribe of Alaskan Indians] translated by J. Frederic Thorne
• Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Gordon
• Mexico, Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, history and Political Conditions by G. Reginald Enock
• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson
• Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
• Rig Veda Americanus, sacred songs of the ancient Mexicans by Daniel Brinton
• Sequoyah (from Harper's New Monthly) (short)
• Three Years on the Plains, Observations of Indians 1867-1870 by Edmund B. Tuttle
• Unkown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz, volume 1
• The Unwritten Literature of te Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
• What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant, 1849
• Linguistics
• Alaska Indian Dictionary, compiled by Charles A. Lee, 1896
• Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallam and Lummi by George Gibbs, 1863
• Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred Tozzer and Glover Allen, 1910
• The Annals of the Cakchiquels the original text with a translation by Daniel G. Brinton
• Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology by James C. Pilling
• Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas
• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs, 1863
• A French-Onondaga Dictionary from a manuscript of the 17th Century by John Gilmany Shea, 1860
• Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language, translated from an unpublished Spanish Manuscript by Buckingham Smith, 1861
• Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages
• The Maya Chronitcs edited by Daniel G. Brinton
• Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts by Cyrus Thomas
• Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts by Dr. Paul Schellhas
• Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared wtih that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes by Garrick Mallery
• Vocabulary of the Mutsun Language by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1861
• Archaeology and Anthropology
• Aboriginal America  by Jacob Abbott
• Aboriginal American Authors by Daniel Brinton
• Aboriginal American Weaving by Mary Lois Kissell
• Aborigiinal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
• American Hero-Myths: a Study in the Native Religions of the Western
• Ancient Nahuatl Poetry by Daniel Brinton
• Casa Grande Ruin by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mything Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson
• Contribution to Passmaquoddy Folk-Lore by J. Walter Fewkes
• The Delight Makers [about the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico] by Adolf F. Bandlier
• Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico by Adolph F. Bandlier, 1910
• Eighth Annual Report of the Bureous of Ethnology, 1886-1887 by J.W. Powell
• A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customers of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation, a Study in Anthropology by Horatio Hale
• Houses and House-Life of American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
• Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made by the Bureau of Ethnology During the Field Season of 1881 by William H. Holmes
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuni, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona in 1881 by James Stevenson
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Indian Games, an historical research by Andrew Davis
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880
• Indian Games and Dances, with Native Songs by Alice Fletcher, 1915
• Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico by J.W. Powell
• Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• The Mid[-e]/wiwin or "Grand Medicine society of the Ojibwa by W.J. Hoffman
• The Mound Builders by George Bryce
• The Mound-Builders by W.J. Smyth
• The Mountain Chant: a Navajo Ceremony by Washington Matthews
• Navaho Houses by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Navaho Silversmiths by Washington Matthews
• Navajo Weavers by Washington Matthews
• Omaha Dwellings, Furniture, and Implements by James Owen Dorsey
• On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J.W. Powell
• Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William H. Holmes [html file with illustrations]
• Osage Traditions by J. Owen Dorsey
• Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States by William Henry Holmes
• Prehistoric Textile Fabrics of the United Stated, Derived from Impressions on Pottery by William H. Holmes
• The Problem of Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas
• Religious Life of the Zuni Chlid by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
• Repair of the Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
• The Seminole Indians of Florida by Clay MacCauley
• Siouan Indians by W.J. McGee, 1897
• Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey, 1897
• Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J.W. Powell
• A Study of Pueblo Architecture: usayan an dCibola by Victor Mindeleff
• a Study of Pueblo Pottery by Frank Hamilton Cushing
• A Study of the Textile Art in It Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament by William H. Holmes
• Throwing-Sticks in the National Museum
• Wyandot Government, a Sthor Study of Tribal Society by J.W. Powell
• Zuni Fetiches by Frank Hamlton Cushing
• Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939)
• Indian Boyhood
• Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
• Old Indian Days
• The Soul of the Indian, an Interpretation
• Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938)
• American Indian Stories
• Old Indian Legends
• Exploration Expeditions amd Pioneer Experiences in Indian country
• Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
• The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson
• American Pioneers and Patriots: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Abbott
• The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California by J.C. Fremont, 1852
• Journals of Lewis and Clark
• The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by De Witt C. Peters
• The Life of Kit Carson by Edward Ellis
• The Life [autobiography] of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, 1879
• The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, interspersed with notice of the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh by "Ferdinand Brock Tripper, 1845
• Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Sylvester Mowry
• Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856 by C.C. Andrews
• Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America inthe years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First Americna Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere, 1854
• Old Fort Snelling 1818-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen
• Old Mackinaw or the Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings by W.P. Strickland
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Jr.
• Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston
• Thiry-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by William F. Drannan
• Three Score Years and Ten, Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota and other Parts of the West by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, 1888
• Fiction and Poetry
• At War with Pontiac or the Totem of the Bear, a Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe
• The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas Allibone Janvier
• Big and Little Sisters, a Story of an Indian Mission School by Theodora R. Jessess
• Captured by the Navajos by Captain Charles A. Curtis
• Daughter of the Chieftain. The Story of an Indian Girl by Edward S. Ellis
• Les Dernier Iroquois by Emile Chevalier [in French]
• The Devil's Own, a Romance of the Black Hawk War by Randall Parrish
• Dick Onslow or the Adventures of Dick Onslow among the Redskins by W.H.G. Kingston
• In the Heart of the Rockies by G.A. Henty
• In the Wilds of Florida by W.H.G. Kingston
• Oonomoo the Huron by Edward S. Ellis
• On the Trail of Pontiac or the Pioneer Boys of the Ohio by Edward Stratemeyer
• Pocahontas,  poem, by Virginia Carter Castleman
• Po-no-kah, an Indian Tale of long ago by Mary Mapes Dodge, 1903
• The Prairie Chief by R.M. Ballantyne
• Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Red Man's Revenge by R.M. Ballantyne
• The Rising of the Red Man: a romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion by John Macke
• The Song of Hiawatha, poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Story of Red Feather by Edward Ellis
• Talking Leaves, an Indian Story by William O. Stoddard
• The Trapper's Son by W.H.G. Kingston
• The Way of an Indian by Frederic Remington
• With Axe and Rifle or the Western Pioneers by W.H.G. Kingston
• Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919)
• The Border Watch
• Free Rangers
• Keepers of the Trail
• Last of the Chiefs, a Story of the Great Sioux War
• Masters of the Peaks
• Scouts of the Valley
• The Young Trailers, a Story of Early Kentucky
• B.M. Bower
• Good Indian
• Heritage of the Sioux
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
• The Deerslayer (1841)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1840)
• The Pioneers (1823)
• The Prairie (1826)
• Wyandotte (1843)
• Charles King
• An Apache Princess, a Tale of the Indian Frontier'
• A Daughter of the Sioux, a Tale of the American Frontier
• The Deserter
• Foes in Ambush
• From the Ranks
• Lanier of the Cavalry or a Week's Arrest
• Marion's Faith
• Sunset Pass or Running the Guantlet Through Apache Land
• Under Fire
• Warrior Gap, a Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68