Native American Collections Bibliography

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The original printed guides made frequent references to published works, which are arranged here alphabetically by the primary author.

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  • Abel, Annie H., ed. 1921. "Trudeau's description of the upper Missouri." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 8: 149-179. 
     
  • Acrelius, Israel. 1759. Beskrifnung Om De Swenska Forsamlingars Forna och Narwarande Tilstand .... Stockholm. 
     
  • Ahenakew, Rev. Edward. 1929. "Cree Trickster tales." Journal of American Folklore 42: 309-353. 
     
  • Aldridge, Alfred Owen. 1950. "Franklin's letter on Indians and Germans." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 94: 390-394. 
     
  • Alegre, Francisco Javier. 1841. Historia de la Compania de Jesus en Nueva Espania. 3 volumes. Mexico. 
     
  • Alger, Abby L. 1885. "A collection of words and phrases from the Passamaquoddy tongue." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22: 240-255. 
     
  • Alldredge, Eugene Perry. 1927. The new challenge of home missions. Nashville, Tennessee. 
     
  • Andrade, Manuel J. 1931. "Quileute texts." Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 12 (2). New York. 
     
  • Andrade, Manuel J. 1933. "Quileute." In: Handbook of American Indian Languages 3 (2). New York. 
     
  • Andrade, Manuel J. 1953a. "Notes on the relations between Chemakum and Quileute," ed. by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh. International Journal of American Linguistics 19: 212-215. 
     
  • Andrade, Manuel J. 1953b. "Relations between Nootka and Quileute." International Journal of American Linguistics 19: 138-140. 
     
  • Angelis, Pedro de, ed. 1836. Coleccion de obras y documentos relativos a la historia antigua y moderna de las provincias del Rio de la Plata. 6 volumes. Buenos Aires. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de. 1925. "The linguistic tangle of Oaxaca." Language 1: 96-102. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de. 1926. "L'emploi de la notion d'etre dans la langue Mixe, Oaxaca." Journal de la Societe des Americanistes 18: 1-7. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de. 1929. "A Tfalati dance song in parts." American Anthropologist, New Series, 31: 496-498. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de. 1935. "Pomo creation myth." Journal of American Folklore 48: 203-262. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de and Lucy S. Freeland. 1930a. "The Achumawi language." International Journal of American Linguistics 5: 77-120. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de and Lucy S. Freeland. 1930b. "A practical scheme for a semantic classification." Anthropos 25: 137-146. 
     
  • Angulo, Jaime de and Lucy S. Freeland. 1935. "Zapotekan linguistic group." International Journal of American Linguistics 8: 1-38; 111-130. 
     
  • Account of a voyage up the Mississippi River from St. Louis to its source, made under the order of the War Department ... in the years 1805 and 1806, 1807. Washington, D. C. 
     
  • Araujo, Antonio de. 1686. Catecismo brasilico da doutrina Christaa; com o ceremonial dos sacramentos, e mais actos parochiaes; composto por padres doutos da Companhia de Jesus . . . [emendado nesta segunda impressao. Pelo P. Betholameu Leam]. Lisboa. 
     
  • Armstrong, Edward, ed. 1870-1872. Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan . . . 1700-1750. 2 volumes. Philadelphia. (Memoirs, Historical Society of Pennsylvania 9 and 10). 
     
  • Arte de la lengua Cahita, conforme a las Reglas de muchos Peritos en ella. 1737. Mexico. 
     
  • Ballagh, James Curtis, ed. 1911. The letters of Richard Henry Lee. 2 volumes. New York. 
     
  • Baradere, Henri, ed. 1834. Antiquites mexicaines. Relation des trois expeditions du capitaine Dupaix, ordonees en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquites du pays . . . 2 volumes. Atlas of plates. Paris. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1949. "How the Huron-Wyandot language was saved from oblivion." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93: 226-232. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1950. "Indian captivities." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 94: 522-548. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1952. "Charles A. Cooke, Mohawk scholar." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96: 424-426. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1953. Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings. National Museum of Canada, Museum Bulletin 127. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1957. Haida carvers in argillite. Canada Geological Survey, Museum Bulletin 139: 6-12, 117-390. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1960. Huron-Wyandot traditional narrative in translations and native texts. Canada, National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 165, Anthropological Series 47. 
     
  • Barbeau, Charles Marius. 1961. Tsimsyan myths. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 174, Anthropological series 51. 
     
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1787. Observations on some parts of natural history to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Part I. London. 
     
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1797. New views of the origin of the tribes and nations of America. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1798. New views of the origin of the tribes and nations of America. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1806. "Account of the Cervus Wapiti." Supplement to the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal [1-3]: 36-55. 
     
  • Barton, Benjamin Smith. 1809. "Letter to Thomas Beddoes on the etymology of certain English words and on their affinities to words in the languages of European, Asiatic and American (Indian) nations." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 6: 145-158. 
     
  • Bauve, Adam de, and P. Ferre. 1833-1834. "Voyage dans l'interieur de la Guyane." Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie de Paris, series 2, 1: 105-117. 
     
  • Belmar, Francisco. 1902. "Indian tribes of the State of Oaxaca and their languages." Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Americanists, 193-202. 
     
  • Belmar, Francisco. 1905. Lenguas indigenas de Mexico. Mexico. 
     
  • Benedict, Ruth. 1931. "Tales of the Cochiti Indians." Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology 98: 1-256. 
     
  • Benedict, Ruth. 1940. "Review: Pueblo Indian Religion by Elsie Clews Parsons." Review of Religion 4: 438-440. 
     
  • Bergh, Albert Ellers, ed. 1907. The writings of Thomas Jefferson. 20 volumes. Washington, D. C. 
     
  • Beverley, Robert. 1855. The history of Virginia [1722]. Richmond. 
     
  • Biddle, Nicholas. 1814. History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark. 2 volumes. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Bigelow, John, ed. 1887-1888. The complete works of Benjamin Franklin. 10 volumes. New York and London. 
     
  • Biggar, Henry Percival. 1924. The voyages of Jacques Cartier. Publications of the Public Archives of Canada 11. 
     
  • Bilby, Julian W. 1923. Among unknown Eskimo: an account of twelve years intimate relations with the primitive Eskimo of icebound Baffin Land. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Blair, E. H. 1911. The Indian tribes of the upper Mississippi valley and region of the Great Lakes. Cleveland. 
     
  • Bloomfield, Leonard. 1924. Menomini language. Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Americanists (1). The Hague. 
     
  • Bloomfield, Leonard. 1930. Sacred stories of the Sweet Grass Cree. Canada Geological Survey, Bulletin 60, Anthropological series 11. 
     
  • Bloomfield, Leonard. 1934. Plains Cree texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 16. New York. 
     
  • Blumenbach, Johann F. 1790-1828. Decas prima collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium. Goettingen. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1889, 1894, 1897. "Eskimo tales and songs." Journal of American Folklore 2: 121-131 [with H. Rink]; 7: 45-50; 10: 109-115. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1891. "Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 29: 173-208. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1893. "Vocabulary of the Kwakiutl language." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 31: 34-82. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1894. "Eskimo tales and songs." Journal of American Folklore 7: 45-50. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1895. Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Kuste Amerikas. Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 1891-1895. Berlin. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1897. "Social organization and secret societies of the Kwakiutl." U.S. National Museum, Annual Report 1895: 311-738. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1898. "Traditions of the Tillamook Indians." Journal of American Folklore 11: 23-28; 133-150. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1899. "Property Marks of Alaskan Eskimo." American Anthropologist, New Series, 1: 601-613. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1901. Kathlamet texts. Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology 26. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1902. Tsimshian texts. Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology 27. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1907. "Second report on the Eskimo of Baffin Land and Hudson Bay." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 15 (2): 371-570. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1909a. "The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island." Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 5 (2): 301-522. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1909b. "Notes on the Iroquois language." In: Anthropological essays presented to Frederic Ward Putnam in honor of his seventieth birthday, April 16, 1909, by his friends and associates. 427-460. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1911. "Handbook of American Indian languages." Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology 40 (1). 283-678. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1912. "Tsimshian texts, new series." Publications of the American Ethnological Society 3: 65-284. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1916. "Tsimshian mythology." Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 31: 27-1037. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1918. Kutenai tales. Bulletin, Bureau of American Ethnology 59. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1921. Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, based on data collected by George Hunt. Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 35 (1 and 2). 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1923. "A Keresan text." International Journal of American Linguistics 2: 171-180. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1924. "Vocabulary of the Athapascan tribe of Nicola Valley." International Journal of American Linguistics 3: 36-38. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1925a. Contributions to the ethnology of the Kwakiutl. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 3. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1925b. Keresan texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 8 (2). 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1926. "Additional notes on the Kutenai language." International Journal of American Linguistics 4: 85-104. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1927. "Die Ausdrucke fur einige religiose Begriffe der Kwakiutl-Indianer." Festschift Meinhof, 382-392. Gluckstadt. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1928a. Bella Bella texts. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 5. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1928b. "Keresan texts, part 1." Publications of the American Ethnological Society 8: 201-204. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1934. Geographical names of the Kwakiutl Indians. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 20. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1935. "A Chehalis text." International Journal of American Linguistics 8: 103-110. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1935 and 1943. Kwakiutl tales. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 26 (1 and 2). New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz. 1947. "Kwakiutl grammar." Helene Boas Yampolsky and Zellig S. Harris, eds. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 37 (3): 203-377. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and Jose Maria Arreola. 1920. "Cuentos en Mexicano de Milpa Alta, D. F." Journal of American Folklore 33: 1-24. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and Ella C. Deloria. 1932. "Notes on the Dakota, Teton dialect." International Journal of American Linguistics 7: 97-121. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and Ella C. Deloria. 1941. "Dakota grammar." Memoirs of the National Academy of Science 232: 176-178. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and Pliny E. Goddard. 1924. "Vocabulary of an Athapascan dialect of the state of Washington." International Journal of American Linguistics 3: 39-45. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and Herman K. Haeberlin. 1924. "Ten folktales in modern Nahutal." Journal of American Folklore 37: 345-370. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and George Hunt. 1905. Kwakiutl texts. Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 3. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and George Hunt. 1908. Kwakiutl texts. Second series. Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 10. New York. 
     
  • Boas, Franz, and A. L. Kroeber. "A report of the committee on research in American native languages." Bulletin of the American Council of Learned Societies 29: 105-120. 
     
  • Bogoras, Waldemar. 1917. Koryak texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 5. 
     
  • Boturini Benaduci, Lorenzo. 1746. "Catalogo del Museo Historico Indiano." In:  Idea de un nueva historia general de la America Septentrional. Madrid. 
     
  • Boudinot, Elias. 1816. A star in the west; or a humble attempt to discover the lost ten tribes of Israel. Trenton, New Jersey. 
     
  • Boyd, Julian P. ed. 1938. Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Boyd, Julian P. ed. 1950—. The papers of Thomas Jefferson. 35 volumes to date. Princeton, New Jersey.
     
  • Boyd, Mark F., ed. 1934. "A topographical memoir of east and west Florida with itineraries of General Jackson's army, 1818, by Captain Hugh Young." Florida Historical Society Quarterly 13: 16-50 and 82-104. 
     
  • Boyd, William, ed. 1929. Histories of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, by William Byrd. Raleigh, North Carolina. 
     
  • Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. 1818. "The population and tumuli of the aborigines of North America." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1: 151-159. 
     
  • Bradford, Andrew. 1721. Particulars of an Indian treaty at Conestogoe between his excellency Sir. William Keith, bart. governor of Pennsilvania and the deputies of the Five Nations. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Bradford, Andrew. 1728. Proclamation for the preservation of peace with the Indians. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Breton, R. P. Raymond. 1667. Grammaire Caraibe. Auxerre. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1869. "Notice of some manuscripts in Central American languages." American Journal of Science, series 2, 47: 222-230. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1881. "The names of the gods in the Kiche myths." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19: 613-647. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1884. "A grammar of the Cakchiquel language of Guatemala." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 21: 345-412. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1885. The Lenape and their legends. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1890. Ancient Nahuatl Poetry. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1892. "Further note on Fuegian languages." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 30: 249-254. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1893. "The native calendar of Central America and Mexico." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 31: 258-314. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G. 1894. "Nagualism. A study in native American folklore and history." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 33: 11-73. 
     
  • Brinton, Daniel G., Henry Phillips, Jr. and J. Cheston Morris, eds. 1892. "The tribute roll of Montezuma." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 17: 53-62. 
     
  • Bunting, Ethel-Jane W. 1932. "From Cahabon to Bacalar in 1677." Maya Society Quarterly 1 (3): 112-119. 
     
  • Burlin, Natalie, ed. 1907. The Indians' book. New York. 
     
  • Burnaby, Andrew. 1775. Travels through the middle settlements in North-America. In the years 1759 and 1760. With observations upon the state of the colonies. London. 
     
  • Byington, Cyrus. 1870. "Grammar of the Choctaw language." Daniel G. Brinton, ed. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11: 317-367. 
     
  • Cabrera, Paul Felix, trans. and annot. 1822. Description of the ruins of an ancient city, discovered near Palenque, by Antonio del Rio. London. 
     
  • Campanius, Johann. 1696. Lutheri catechismus ofwersatt pa American-Virginske Spraket. Stockholm. 
     
  • Campanius Holm, Thomas. 1834. "A short description of the province of New Sweden, translated...with notes by Peter S. Du Ponceau." Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 3: 13-166. 
     
  • Canestrelli, Phillip. 1894. Linguae Ksanka elementa grammaticae. Santa Clara, California. 
     
  • Canestrelli, Phillip. 1926. "Grammar of the Kutenai language...with annotations by Franz Boas." International Journal of American Linguistics 4: 1-84. 
     
  • Cardozo, Efraim. 1959. Historiografia Paraguaya. Mexico. 
     
  • Carmer, Carl. 1936. Listen for a lonesome drum. New York. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow. 1949a. "The Brock site." Pennsylvania Archaeologist 19: 69-77. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow. 1949b. "Recently acquired manuscripts relating to the archaeology of Pennsylvania." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93: 166-168. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow. 1950a. "Ecology and Pennsylvania mounds." Pennsylvania Archaeologist 20: 63-74. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow. 1950b. "The Spartansburg Cairns." Pennsylvania Archaeologist 20: 40-46. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow. 1951. "Tumuli in southwestern Pennsylvania." American Antiquity 16: 329-346. 
     
  • Carpenter, Edmund Snow, K. R. Pfirman, and Harry Schoff. 1949. "The 28th State site." Pennsylvania Archaeologist 19: 3-16. 
     
  • Cass, Lewis. 1823. Inquiries respecting the history, tradition, language, manners, customs, religion, etc. of the Indians living within the United States. Detroit. 
     
  • Cass, Lewis. 1826. "Remarks on the condition, character, and languages of the North American Indian." North American Review 22: 53-119. 
     
  • Chamberlain, Alexander F. 1891. "Chinook jargon." Science. November 6, 1891. 
     
  • Chinard, Gilbert. 1943. "Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87: 263-276. 
     
  • Clavigero, Francesco Saverio. 1787. History of Mexico. London. 
     
  • Clements, William L., ed. 1919. "Rogers' Michillimackinac journal." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 28: 244-273. 
     
  • Cohen, Bernard. 1956. Franklin and Newton; an inquiry into speculative Newtonian experimental science and Franklin's work in electricity as an example thereof. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 43. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Combe, George, and Benjamin Horner Coates. 1840. "Review: Crania Americana." American Journal of Science 38: 341-375. 
     
  • Cooke, Charles. 1952. "Iroquois personal names--their classification." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96: 427-438. 
     
  • Copway, George. 1847. Life, history and travels of George Copway, a young Indian chief of the Ojibwa nation. Albany. 
     
  • Corner, George W., ed. 1948. The autobiography of Benjamin Rush. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 25. Philadelphia. 
     
  • Coues, Elliott. 1893. "Description of the original manuscript and field notebooks of Lewis and Clark." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 31: 17-33. 
     
  • Cox, Isaac Joslin. 1947. "An early explorer of the Louisiana Purchase." Library Bulletin of the American Philosophical Society 1946: 73-77. 
     
  • Croft, Kenneth. 1951. "Practical orthography for Matlapa Nahuatl." International Journal of American Linguistics 17: 32-36. 
     
  • Croft, Kenneth. 1953. "Six decades of Nahuatl; a bibliographical contribution." International Journal of American Linguistics 19: 57-73. 
     
  • Curtis, Roger. 1774. "Particulars of the country of Labradore, extracted from the papers of Lieutenant Roger Curtis." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 64: 547-551. 
     
  • Cushing, Frank Hamilton. 1896. "Exploration of ancient key dwellers' remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 35: 329-432.