Native American

Our Native American CD contains 88 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 History

• The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919

Eastern US and Canada

• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young, 1903
• Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Leland
• An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha or Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard
• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk by Black Hawk (re: Black Hawk War of 1832)
• A French-Onondaga Dictionary from a manuscript of the 17th Century by John Gilmany Shea, 1860
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador, with some interesting particulars respecting the natives of the country
• Hochelagans and Mohawks, a link in Iroquois history by W.D. Lighthall, 1899
• A New Hochlegan Burying-Ground Discovered by W.D. Lighthall, 1898
• 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
• Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (short)
• 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
• A Sketch of the History of Oneonta [New York] by Dudley M. Campbell, 1883
• Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by James Bovell MacKenzie
• 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

Western America and Mexico

• Alaska Indian Dictionary, compiled by Charles A. Lee, 1896
• Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Poston
• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs, 1863
• Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language, translated from an unpublished Spanish Manuscript by Buckingham Smith, 1861
• Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity by Galen Clark, 1904
• In Indian Mexico, a narrrative of travel and labor by Frederick Starr
• Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Gordon
• 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)
• Unkown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz, volume 1
• The Unwritten Literature of te Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
• Vocabulary of the Mutsun Language by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1861
• What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant, 1849

Archeology, Linguistics, and Anthropology

• Aboriginal America  by Jacob Abbott
• Ancient Nahuatl Poetry by Daniel Brinton
• The Problem of Ohio Mounds Cyrus Thomas
• Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customers of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• American Hero-Myths: a Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Brinton
• Houses and House-Life of American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
• Indian Games, an historical research by Andrew Davis
• Indian Games and Dances, with Native Songs by Alice Fletcher, 1915

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

• Journals of Lewis and Clark
• The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California by J.C. Fremont, 1852
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Jr.
• Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston
• 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
• Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856 by C.C. Andrews
• Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
• American Pioneers and Patriots: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Abbott
• The Life [autobiography] of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, 1879
• The Life of Kit Carson by Edward Ellis
• The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by De Witt C. Peters
• 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
• 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
• Thiry-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by William F. Drannan

Fiction and Poetry

• Pocahontas,  poem, by Virginia Carter Castleman
• The Song of Hiawatha, poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Way of an Indian by Frederic Remington
• On the Trail of Pontiac or the Pioneer Boys of the Ohio by Edward Stratemeyer
• In the Heart of the Rockies by G.A. Henty
• Po-no-kah, an Indian tale of long ago by Mary Mapes Dodge, 1903
• Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• The Rising of the Red Man: a romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion by John Macke
• Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919)
• Free Rangers
• Masters of the Peaks
• Scouts of the Valley
• 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)
• Edward Ellis
• The Daughter of the Chieftain: The Story of an Indian Girl

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