Native American History and Culture
Southeastern Oklahoma State University

The study of Native American History and Culture is a fascinating one. The SE Library has a special collection, called the Native American Collection which has thousands of items that can be used to pursue many topics in Native American history. The collection is arranged by Dewey Decimal System.

000-099bibliographies100-199philosophy and psychology
200-299Native religion300-399social sciences relating to Native Americans
310-319Statistics320-329Native American political science
330-339Native American economics340-349Laws relating to Native Americans
360-369Social problems related to Native Americans370-379Native education
390-399Native customs, ettiquette and folklore400-499Native American Languages
500-599Native American science610-620Native American medicine
620-629Native American engineering630-639Native American agriculture
690-699Native American buildings700-799 Native American Art and recreation
800-899Native American literature900-999Native American history and geography
920-929Native biography970-979Native American History: North America
980-989Native American History: South America

The Native American collection is further divided into type of item: Reference books, regular circulating books, juvenile books, videos, government documents, journals

A.  General Native American Bibliographies

1. Guide to Research on North American Indians
Hirschfelder, Arlene B.
NAR  016.97000497 H61g
This volume contains and annotates about 2,500 works from early times to about 1972. It contains general works on Indians, and histories and historical sources, works on the economic and social aspects of Native Americans, and works on religion, arts, and literature of Native Americans.
2.  New Directions in American Indian History
NAR  016.9730497 D24n v.1
3.  Indians of the United States and Canada. A Bibliography
NA  016.9700497 In2
A listing of periodical article abstracts for the period 1954-1974, in a  geographical and tribal arrangement with subject index, drawn from America History and Life.
4. U.S. Dept. of Interior. Biographical and Historical Index of American Indians and Persons Involved in  Indian Affairs.
8 vols. (1966).
NAR   016.9701 Un3b v.1-8
5.  A Descriptive Catalog of the Government Publications of the United States September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881.
R 015.73  P79d v.1-2
6.  Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government 1881-1893.
2 vols. (1905).
R 015.73 Un3c v.1-2
7.  Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. (1965 to date)
AE2.109
8.Writings in Indian History, 1985-1990.1995
This is Volume 2 of the D'Arcy McNickle Center Bibliographies in American Indian History.
9. The Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States. 1977
NA R 016.3231 P95b


  B.  General Histories of Native Americans




1. Ellis, George E. The Red Man and the White Man in North America From Its Discovery to the Present Time. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1882.
NA 970.1 E15r ARCHIVES 642 pages
2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. 1970
Brown, Dee.
NA 970.5 B811b
This is a very readable account the Indian conflicts in the American West from about 1860 to 1890. This history is written by noted historian Dee Brown.
3. History of the Indians of the United States. 1970
Written by Oklahoma native and historian Angie Debo, this is a good general history of the history of the Indians in the United States.
NA 970.1 D35h
4. A Century of Dishonor: The Early Crusade for Indian reform. 1965
This book was written by reformer Helen Hunt Jackson in 1881. She wrote it to protest the mistreatment of the Indians by the government, and Indian policy. This book can be seen as either a primary or secondary source, depending on your topic.
NA 970.5 J13c
5.  Bancroft's Works 1884
NA 970.0497 B22w
This is a 39 volume set of the works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, a successful San Francisco businessman, who turned historian, and produced histories of Central America, Mexico, California, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Northwest Coast, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, BRitish Columbia, and Alaska. He employed as many as 50 researchers at a time to do the research for his works. He published all of them in the period between 1884 and 1890. He sold the entire set as a collection called Bancroft's Works. There is much in these volumes about Native North Americans. (information on Bancroft found in American National Biography, Volume 2 p99-100
6. The North American Indian 1908
NA 970.1 C94N
This 20-volume set describes the culture, mythology, customs of the Indian tribes in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was written by Edward S. Curtis, and contains a forward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field research was done under the patronage of J.P. Morgan. There are photographs of Indians, their homes, pottery, clothes, etc. It is arranged by tribe.
7. Chronology of Native North American History. 1994.
Edited by Daune Champagne.
NA R 970.00047 C46
This is a good one volume chronology of all events considered important in Indian history. Included are dates of treaties, laws, births of significant Native Americans, dates of battles and wars, trading with Indians, dates of major epidemics, and more.
8. Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890 1997
NA R 355.020899703 K25e
This book contains all skirmishers, battles, massacres, and wars that occurred between the Native Americans and the Europeans in America. It also contains biographies on major players in these battles, and important meetings and treaties between Native Americans and the Europeans. The arrangement is alphabetical.
9. Encyclopedia of Native American Wars & Warfare 2005
NA R 355.020899703 En1k
This book contains all skirmishers, battles, massacres, and wars that occurred between the Native Americans and the Europeans in America. It also contains biographies on major players in these battles, and important meetings and treaties between Native Americans and the Europeans. The arrangement is alphabetical.

  C.  General Native American Handbooks, Directories, Compendiums, Atlases

     General & Miscellaneous

1. Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian. 6th ed. (c1993).
NA R  970.103 R25e6
TOPICS: Indians of North America--Directories, Indians of North America--Bibliography. Indians of North America--Biography.
2.  The Native American Almanac: a portrait of Native America Today.(1993).
NA R  973.0497 H61n
3.  Dictionary of the American Indian. (1960).
NA R   970.103  St7d
Brief descriptions of places and things.
4.  Handbook of North American Indians. (1978-).
NA R  970.00497 H19.

U.S. Smithsonian Institution. In progress. A 20 volume revision of Hodges' old "Handbook." 2 vols. (1907-1910). These volumes are written by experts and include good notes on sources and bibliographies. Volumes published thus far include: vol. 4 (Indian White Relations), vol. 5 (Arctic), vol. 6 (Subarctic), vol. 7 (NW Coast), vol. 9 (Southwest), vol. 10 (Southwest), vol. 11 (Great Basin), vol. 12 (Plateau) vol. 13 (Plains) vol. 15 (Northeast). vol. 17 (Languages) This projected 20 volume set is planned to be able to "give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures or the aboriginal peoples of North America." The latest volume was published in 2001.
5.  Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Vol. 1: North America(1991).
R 306 En1 v.1
6.  The American Indian and the United States. A Documentary History.4 vols. (1973). Washburn, Wilcomb E.
NA 323.1197 W26a
Includes a great many documents, in whole or in part, including treaties, constitutions, laws, etc.
7. This Country Was Ours: A Documentary History of the American Indian. (1972).
Vogel, Virgil
NA 970.1 V86t
Appendices on films, recordings, museums, organizations, publications and biography.
8.  Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships. (1987-)
Vol. 1: Southeastern Woodlands.  Heard, J. Norman
Vol 4: The War West R 973.0321 H35h
9.  Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. (1980).
R 973.04 H26
10.  Dictionary of Native American Mythology (1992).
NA R  299.7  G41d
11.  Biographical Dictionary of Indians of the Americas. 1st ed. (1983)
NA R  970.103 B52 v.1-2
12. Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas. 2nd ed. (1993).
NA R 970.004  D56a2 v.1-3


Maps and Atlases

1.  Atlas of American Indian Affairs. (1990).
NA R  912.7 P95a
Excellent, detailed.
2.  Historical Atlas of the American West. (1989).
R 911.78 B38h
3.  Atlas of the North American Indian. (2000).
NA R  970.00497 W14a
Highly acclaimed, though no references of any kind to sources of data, but a large collection of maps and general Native American information.
4.  Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States.(1932).
R 911.73 P28a
Many Useful Maps. There are excellent general archaeology atlases that have information on Native Americans:
5.  Archaeological Atlas of the World (1975).
R 912 W58a
6.  Past Worlds: the Times Atlas of Archeology
R 911 H18p


D. Statistics and Demography, etc.
1. Statistical Record of Native North America (1993).
NA R 304.608997  St2
2.  Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (Annual).
R 317.3 Un3s
3.  Native American Historical Demography. A Critical Bibliography. (1976). Dobyns, Henry F. NA 970.00497 D65n
4.  American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. (1987).
Thornton, Russell NA 304.6  T39a
5.  Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes (3 reels)
Locked Case, Microform NA 970.5 Un3f
Also available online at the National Archives and Records Administration at: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/native_americans_final_rolls_index.html
E. Biography, Autobiography, Oral History
1.  Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 4
NA R 970.00497 H19
The extensive chapter "Non-Indian Biographies" (pp.617-699), treating people who had significant impact on Indian-White affairs.
2.  Who Was Who in Native American History
NA R 970.00497 W14w
3.  Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 1993
NA R 920.72 N21
4.  Biographical Dictionary of Indians of the Americas. 2 vols.
NA R 970.103 B52
5.  Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships.
(1987-). Vol. 1: Southeastern Woodlands
R 973.0321 H35h
An Excellent Topical and biographical dictionary with references. U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
6.  Biographical and Historical Index of American Indians and Persons Index of American
Indians and Persons Involved in Indians Affairs. 8 vols. (1966).
NA R 016.9701 Un3b
7.  Great North American Indians. (1978).
Dockstader, Frederick J.
NA R 920.0092 D65g
8.  Indians of Today. 4th Ed. (1971).
NA R 970.103 G87i4
9.  This Country Was Ours:  A Documentary History of the American Indian. (1972).
NA 970.1 V86t
Its appendix 3 is "Famous Americans of Indian Descent": includes references.
10.  American Indian Women: A Guide to Research. (1991).
NA R 016.92072 B31a
Autobiog., Biog., Interviews: p. 282-.
11.  The North American Indian. 20 vols.
Curtis, Edward
NA 970.1 C94n
This famous publication, includes 10 volumes of  photographs and 10 volumes of text, which are illustrated with many additional photographs.
12. Native Americans in Sports
NA R 796.08997 N21K
F. Letters, Reports, Speeches
1.  Indian Oratory: Famous Speeches. (1971).
NA 970.4 V28i
2. Carter, Clarence Edwin, comp & ed. Territorial Papers of the United States.
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934- 28 volumes

This series of twenty eight volumes contains official papers of various territories of the United States. These are papers held in the archives of various government agencies, such as: Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of the Interior, the Department of War, the U.S. Post Office, the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress, and the Senate and House files. Included are correspondence and other papers passing between the governor of the territory and the Federal Government, letters of judges of courts, receivers and registers of land offices, and petitions of groups or individuals for redress of grievances, and other papers dealing with territories up through the time they gained statehood. Range of years is specified in each volume, with the early to mid-1800's receiving emphasis. There is an index for each volume.

3.  Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs (44 reels)
Locked Case, Microform
NA 970.5 Un31
This is the letters received by the Office of Indian Affairs from 1824 to 1881. There are 44 microfilm reels that are divided into different geographical areas. These are letters microfilmed by the National Archives and Records Service, and are copies of the original letters in cursive.
4.  Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports.
This series of annual reports began in 1881 and contains reports documenting the language, customs of various Indian tribes throughout the United States. The last annual report was published in 1933, for the 1930-1931 year.
5. Bulletin. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
This series began with Number 1, in 1887, which was called Bibliography of the Eskimo Language. Others followed, each one on a specific topic on Native American culture, customs, archaeology, and anthropology. These were published in an erratic pattern, with the first four bulletin being published in 1887, and number 5 not being published until 1893. By 1928, 87 had been published. The last Bulletin was number 199, published in 1967. There is a List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology published in 1949.
6. Letters on the Chickasaw and Osage Missions. Boston: T.R. Marvin for the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union, 1831.

G. Online Libraries
1. The Online Books Page
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The On-Line Books Page was founded in 1993 by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University . He is now a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He remains the editor of the pages, and gladly accepts suggestions for new listings." It contains about 13,000 e-books that are non copyrighted or the author has given permission for a copyrighted book to be put online. It also contains online serials, such as newspapers, journals, and magazines. Many of these serials are old, such as Harpers Monthly (1850-1899), and the North American Review (1815-1900). There is also an archives page which contains links to other online documents and e-books in such areas as: children's literature, black writers, computers, dissertations, economics, history, literary, military, music and dance, poetry, politics, government and law, religion, science, social science and math, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and women
2. .Indians/Native Americans-Archives Library Information Center of the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/native-americans.html
This page contains the online holdings of the National Archives pertaining to Native Americans

G. Illustrations, Photographs, Paintings



1. La Farge, Oliver. Pictorial History of the American Indian. New York: Crown Publishers, 1957.
NA 970.1 L13p Parson’s Collection LOCKED CASE 272 pages.
2. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians 1972
This book was written by James D. Horan, but it it takes much of its material from the writings and first-hand accounts of Colonel Thomas Loraine McKenney, Head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1824. Many of the paintings in this book were gathered together by him. He later published a portfolio of paintings of Native Americans in the 1830's. These paintings were all done before the age of photography.
3. Grand Endeavors of American Indian Photography .Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
This is a wonderful book that attempts to describe attempts made to capture Indians and Indian life on paper, either through drawings, illustrations, paintings, or photographs. There are many illustrations, paintings and photographs included in this volume.
Written by Paula Richardson Flemming and Judith Lynn Luskey.
NA 970.00497 E62g
4. American Historical Images on File: The Native American Experience Facts on File, 1991.
There are 277 copyright-free images in this binder that can be reproduced in any form that is desired by the researcher. These images can be used in reports. They are divided chronologically into periods before 1789, 1970 to 1861, 1862 to 1873, 1874 to 1890, and 1891 to 1990.
NA R 973.0497 N21
5.George Gatlin and His Indian Gallery
http://americanart.si.edu/catlin/highlights.html "George Catlin (1796-1872) journeyed west five times in the 1830s to paint the Plains Indians and their way of life. Convinced that westward expansion spelled certain disaster for native peoples, he viewed his Indian Gallery as a way "to rescue from oblivion their primitive looks and customs." "Catlin was the first artist to record the Plains Indians in their own territories. He admired them as the embodiment of the Enlightenment ideal of "natural man," living in harmony with nature. But the more than 500 paintings in the Indian Gallery also reveal the fateful encounter of two different cultures in a frontier region undergoing dramatic transformation. "
6. Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains--Online Image Database
http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/ "Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains is a searchable online photograph database created with grant support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Program."
H. Native American Resources by Topic
Language, Literature, Folklore
1.  Handbook of North American Indians. vol. 17
NA R 970.00497 H19
2.  Civilization of the American Indian Series...
(Example)  Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies.
NA 398.2 C54in v. 82
Original sources are cited in this collection of 121 traditional stories, personal narratives, and historical traditions from thirteen tribes of the Northern Rockies. The stories are arranged by language group, each section preceded by a brief historical note on the tribes represented. This valuable, clearly written resource includes source notes, a bibliography, and an index. Various call #'s, 172 volumes total.
3.  Dictionary of Native American Literature. (1994)
NA R 897  D56
TOPICS: Indian literature--United States--Encyclopedias. American literature--Indian authors.
4.  Native North American Literature: Biographical and Critical Information on Native Writers and Orators From the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present (1994).
Witalec, Janet, ed.
NA R 810.9897 N21w
TOPICS: American literature--Indian authors--Bio-bibliography. Authors, Indian--Biography-- Dictionaries, Indians in literature--Dictionaries.
5.  Ethnic Folklife Dissertations. (1986).
NA 016.3982 K47e
6.  Dictionary of Native American Mythology. (1992).
NA R 299.7  G41d

Indian-White Relations, Treaties, Law

1.  The American Indian and the United States. A Documentary History. 4 vols. (1973).
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
NA 323.1197 W26a
Includes a great many documents, in whole or in part, including treaties, constitutions, laws, etc.
2.  Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships.
(1987-). Vol. 1: Southeastern Woodlands.
Heard, J. Norman
R 973.0321 H35h
An Excellent topical and biographical dictionary with references
3.  Native American Historical Demography. A critical Bibliography. (1976).
Dobyns, Henry F.
NA 970.00497 D65r
4.  American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. (1975).
Thornton, Russell
NA 304.6 T39a
5.  The States and Their Indian Citizens.
Taylor, Theodore W.
NA 970.5 T21s
6.  Handbook of Federal Indian Law, with Reference Tables and Index. (1942).
Cohen, Felix S.
NA 970.1 Un3h
7.  Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs. (1979).  Kappler, Charles
NA R  970.5  Un3La2 v. 1-7
8.  A Bibliography of the Constitutions and Laws of the American Indians. (1947).
Hargrett, Lester
NA 016.9705 H22b
9. Annual Reports of the Department of Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1898: Indian Affairs: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
NA 353.3 Un3a 1901 ARCHIVES
10. Annual Reports of the Department of Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1901: Indian Affairs: Part II, Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.
NA 353.3 Un3a 1901 ARCHIVES
This Commission was set up in 1893, and reported every year on the progress of the Fives Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma in assimilating to white rule. The commission published reports every year from 1894 to about 1919. Our library has the years 1901 and 1902, but other years can be viewed at the University of Oklahoma Bizell Library, or online in at Google Books (http:/books.google.com)
11. Bledsoe, S.T. Indian Land Laws: Being a Treatise on Indian Land Titles in Oklahoma and Under the General Allotment Act, Amendments and Legislation supplemental thereto, including a full consideration of conveyances and Lands of Minors, descent, dower, curtsey, taxation, easements in and actions affecting title to allotted Indian Lands. Also a compilation of treaties, agreements and statutes applicable thereto, fully annotated
2nd edition. Kansas City, MO: Vernon Law Book Company, 1913.
NA R 346.0438 B6li2 IN ARCHIVES
12. Constitution, Treaties and Laws of the Chickasaw Nation Made and Enacted by the Chickasaw Legislature. Atoka, I.T.: Indian Citizen Print, 1890.
NA 348.02 C43c LOCKED CASE 343 pages plus index of 7 pages. Book is in bad shape
13. Argument on Behalf of the Chickasaw Nation Against the Reopening of the Choctaw And Chickasaw Citizenship Rolls. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.
Paper brittle and book is falling apart. NA 348.01 Ar3 ARCHIVES 47 pages
14. Abstracted Indian Trust Bonds 1861. Report to the U.S. House of Representatives, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No 78.
15. Sample, W.F. Oklahoma Indian Land Titles Annotated. St. Louis: Thomas Law Book Company, 1952.
NA R 970.1 Se5o 1032 pages
16. Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project http://thorpe.ou.edu
This web site has treaties, Indian Land Titles, constitutions, codes, archives
17.  The American Indian and the United States. A Documentary History. 4 vols. (1973).
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
NA 323.1197 W26a
Includes a great many documents, in whole or in part, including treaties, constitutions, laws, etc.
18.  Congressional Record
x1.1/A
Contains the complete record of what happened in Congress. Began on March 4, 1873 and continues to the present. About two years of the Congressional Record is in the Government Documents Room on Floor 2A, and the rest is in storage in the basement. Before the Congressional Record, was the Congressional Globe  which was published from 1833 to 1873, which is also in storage in the basement. Before the Congressional Globe was the Annals of Congress which began in 1789 and ran to 1824, which is also in storage in the basement. See a reference librarian to help you locate what you need. The Annals of Congress are now available online at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html Other records of Congress, such as the House Journal, 1789-1875, Senate Journal, 1789-1875, Senate Executive Journal, 1789-1875, Maclay's Journal 1789-1791, and the Register of Debates 1824-1837 are available full text from A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation website at:  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
This is a part of the wonderful American Memory Project that the Library of Congress is making available to all.
19. Native Americans and the Law 7 vols.
1996. NA R 342.730872
20. LoisLaw
This is a database of legislative law, court cases, and statutes for all states of the United States and Federal law. It is located on the Electronic Resources Page on the Library's website at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm. It is under the Legal Resources on this page. You can find court cases plus laws here that relate to Native Americans.

 

For Current Laws and Regulations:
  • United States Statutes at Large. AE 2.1111
  • United States Code. (latest edition). R 348.7323 Un3c 1994
  • Code of Federal Regulations. (latest annual compilation). GovDocs     Reference  AE 2.106/3:1/2/2000
  • Federal Register. (1938 to date, daily). AE 2.7:
    • Women
    1.  American Indian Women: A Guide to Research.
    NA R 016.92072 B31a
    2.  Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
    NA R 920.72 N21
    3.  New Directions in American Indian History. "American Indian Women"
    NA R 016.9730497 D24n v.1
    4. A to Z of Native American Women.
    NA R 920.7208997 S05a
    Archaeology
    1.  Handbook of North American Indians
    NA R 970.00497  H19
    2.  Archaeological Atlas of the World. (1975).
    R 912 W58a
    3.  Past Worlds: The Times of Archaeology (1988).
    R 911 H18p
    4. Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia. (1998).
    NA R 970.0103 AR2G
     
    Contemporary Social Science Research
    1.  The American Historical Association's Guide To Historical Literature. 3rd ed. (1995).
    R 016.9  Am3n3  2 vols.
    2.  Sociology of American Indians: A Critical Bibliography.(1980).
    Thornton, Russell
    NA 016.3058  T39s
    3.  New Directions in American Indian History (1988).
    NA R 016.9730497 D24n
     

    Religion and Mythology
    1. American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia 2005
    NA R 299.703 C85A
    This work was created to "compile a set of articles that would help to define the academic study of American Indian religious tradition as it is undertaken at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is a work in which Native Americans present their religious traditions.
    2.  Historical Atlas of World Mythology. (1983-). Vol.1:Way of the Animal Powers
    Oversize:  219.13 C15my  (Oversize books are on the third floor)

    3.  Encyclopedia of Native American Religions. Facts on File, (2000)
    This encyclopedia fills a gap in materials on Native American religions. This encyclopedia contains an alphabetical list of Indian religious terms, places, people, ceremonies, customs, and artifacts.

    4.  Dictionary of Native American Mythology. (1992).
    NA R 299.7 G41d
    5.  Dancing Colors: Paths of Native American Women. (1992).
    Brafford, C. J. (Oglala Sioux); Thom, Laine
    NA 305.48897 D19
    San Francisco, CA; Chronicle Books; 1992. 120 pages. This book contains stunning full-page, full-color photographs of over 100 museum objects that were a part of traditional daily life for American Indian women. These photographs are supplemented with commentary by the authors. The retelling of four legends illustrates the variety of Indian women's roles. Includes and index to the illustrations and a bibliography.
    6.  The Native American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the Untied States and Canada. (1994).
    Champagne, Duane, ed.
    NA R 970300497 N21c

    Gale Research Inc. 1275 pages. A comprehensive work that provides historical and
    contemporary information on Native North Americans in the U.S. and Canada. Canadian and U.S. authors, many native, have contributed to the wide range of topics covering law and legislation, activism, environment, religion, urbanization and non-reservation populations, arts and literature, media, health, education, and the economy. References for further reading and directories run throughout the book, providing such information as Native newspapers, cultural events, and Native American films and videos. Two hundred pages of biographies of prominent Native North Americans are included, as well as a glossary.
    7. The Storytelling Stone: Traditional Native American Myths and Tales. (1991).
    Feldmann, Susan ed.
    NA Juv 398.2  St7
    Dell Publishing. 291 pages. Reprint of 1965 ed. Sources are cited for this collection of 52
    legends from 31 tribes. The legends are grouped under creation myths, trickster tales, and hero,
    supernatural, and folktales. The language used in the myths is simple and readable. The extensive
    introduction, discussing myth types and their differing manifestations in the various tribes, seems
    more suited for college-level studies. A bibliography is included.
    8.  The Native American Almanac: A Portrait of Native America Today. (1993).
    Hirschfelder, Arlene; Montano, Martha Kreipe
    NA R 973.0497 H61n

    Prentice Hall general reference. 341 pages. This detailed reference work on American Indians focuses especially on their legal and social status as shaped by fluctuating government policies. The book opens with a comprehensive history of the U. S. Government's dealings with Indians. This theme is expanded in subsequent chapters on Supreme Court decisions, treaties, the history and operation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribal governments, and American Indian education. Chapters on religion, sports, and artists cover both traditional and modern practices. Overviews of American Indian journalism, American Indians in the military, and today's economic and employment situation are included. Five appendices list: tribes by state; reservations, rancherias, colonies and historic Indian areas; a chronology of Indian treaties; Native landmarks; and a chronology of American Indian history from 1492-1992. Photographs, charts and maps illustrate the book. Bibliography and Index.
    9.  Indian Country. (1984).
    Matthiessen, Peter
    NA 304.2089 M43i

    Penguin Books, 338 pages. Historical information is provided as background for discussion of ten recent battles in the "New Indian Wars," representative of many others being fought by American Indians today in which non-Indians have encroached upon Indian lands and the subsequent confrontations that have ensued. The author calls the book "...essentially a journal of travels and encounters with Indian people over the past decade. My hope is that these Indian voices, eloquent and bitter, humorous and sad, will provide what history and statistics cannot, a sense of that profound 'life way' which could illuminate our own dispirited consumer culture." Combined with thorough research, these personal experiences are related in well-written and absorbing prose and include contemporary examples from the Miccosuke, Hope, Cherokee, Mohawk, Yurok, Karuk, Lakota, Chumash, Paiute, Shoshone, Ute, and Navajo.
    10.  Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence. (1971).
    McLuhan, T. C.
    NA 970.1 M22t

    Edward Curtis's early 20th-century photographs of American Indians are accompanied by passages taken from speeches and writings of Indians made between the 16th and 20th centuries. Many of the photographs and words are by now familiar classics but, as the author describes them, "too vital to leave out." The book seems a bit dated as there is no discussion of Curtis's interpretations (sometimes questionable) of his subjects and his tendency to romanticize Indians. Still, the powerful and captivating words and pictures speak for themselves with no editorial comment from the author.
    11. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present (1492-1992).
    Nabokov, Peter, ed.
    NA 970.00497 N21

    A compendium of documents recording Indian-White relations over the past 500 years, this book differs from other historical anthologies in that the story is told from the Indian perspective. The editor has included over 100 accounts, taken from a wide range of sources including traditional narratives, speeches, Indian autobiographies, reservation newspapers, personal interviews and letters, and includes a thoughtful introduction to each of the chapters. The book is especially strong in its documentation of 20th century American Indian history. This is a unique and powerful book.
    12.  Native American Architecture (1989).
    Nabokov, Peter; Easton, Robert
    NA 720.97 N11n Oxford University Press, 431 Pages.
    This comprehensive description of Native building traditions examines how different forces--economic, ecological, social, technological, historical, religious--contributed to Indian architecture. The book is meticulously researched and documented, but written for the general reader. Includes a useful chart of Native tribes and language groups, and a cultural area map, as well as a bibliography, glossary, and an index. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white archival photographs and drawings. This book is an excellent source of information for students and teachers alike.
    13. The Book of Mormon
    289.322 B64
    This is an account of the religious and some secular history of the ancient peoples that lived in the Americas, including a visit of Jesus Christ to the ancient American peoples. This book also claims that the some of the ancient people living in the Americas are the descendants of the Indians.
    I. Newspapers Archive Newspapers J. Journals K. Videos  (Example holdings, many others available) L. Misc. Holdings
    Curtis, Edward S.
    NA 970.1 C94n
    1.  And Still the Waters Run
    Debo, Angie
    NA 970.5  D35a
    The story of how Oklahoma achieved statehood at the expense of the Indian Nations. Written by an native Oklahoman woman.
    2.  The Indian Wars
    NA 973.0497 Ut4a
    4.  Native American Issues
    Thompson, William N.
    NA R 323.1197073 T37n
    5.  Native American Rights (Current Controversies Series)
    Roleff, Tamara L. ed.
    NA 323.1197  N21r Dating from the late 1800's.
    6.  The North American Indian being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, a "Landmarks in Anthropology" series, 20 volumes.
    7.  The Choctaw Bilingual Education Program
    Morrison, Dr. James D.
    NA 497.3  M83ch Southeastern Oklahoma State University
    8. Scaife, H. Lewis. History and Condition of the Catawba Indians of South Carolina. Philadelphia: Office of Indian Rights Association, 1896.
    Contains notes written in pen by McDonald Fruman on Nov 16, 1896. Mr. Fruman apparently was involved in the events written about in the pamphlet.
    NA 970.3 Sca3h ARCHIVES 24 pages
    9. Morrison, James D. Seven Constitutions: Government of the Choctaw Republic 1826-1906. Southeastern Oklahoma State University: Choctaw Bilingual Education Program, Durant, Oklahoma, 1977.
    NA 348.701 M83s ARCHIVES 127 pages plus 7 pictures.
    10. Murry, William H. Murry’s Essays on Pocahontas and Pushmataha: Historical and Biographical with copious notes on Oklahoma History. Ardmore, OK: Paine Printing Company, 1924 (privately printed)
    NA 970.2 M96m LOCKED CASE 115 pages
    11. Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations. Facts on File, 2002.
    Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield.
    NA R 970.00497 K43e
    This book contains inventions and innovations listed first in alphabetical order, then it has maps of where Indian tribes are, a glossary, a chronological list of inventions.
    12. Debo, Angie. The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
    NA 970.3 D35r2 314 pages
    13. The Slaveholding Indians. by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919-1925
    NA 976.603089 AB3S
    This three volumne set is the best work written about the Civil War period in Indian Territory. The first volume is called The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist, and Volume 2 has a title of The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War, and Volume 3 is called: The American Indian under Reconstruction.

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