Lewis Spence - The Myths of the North American Indians

THE annexed bibliography, although full, is far from being exhaustive, but it is hoped that readers who desire to follow up the whole or any separate department of study connected with the Red Race of North America will find in it reference to many useful volumes. It is claimed that the list represents the best of the literature upon the subject.

ADAIR, JAMES: The History of the American Indians. London, 1775.

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY : Transactions and Collections (Afrchologia Americana), vols. i.-vii.; Worcester, 182085. Proceedings, various numbers.

American Archologist (formerly The Antiquarian), vol. ii., Columbus. 1898.

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Transactions, vols. i.-iii.; New York, 184553. Publications, vols. i.-ii. ; Leyden, 19079.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Minutes and Proceedings: Digest, vol. i.; Philadelphia, 17441838. Proceedings, vols. i.-xliv.; Philadelphia, 18381905. Transactions, vols. i.-vi. ; Philadelphia, 17591809. Transactions, New Series, vols. i.-xix. ; Philadelphia, 181898.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. Transactions, vols. i.iii. Washington, 188185.

ARCHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. Papers, American Series, vol. i., Boston and London, 1881 (reprinted 1883) ; vol. iii., Cambridge, 1890 ; vol. iv., Cambridge, 1892 ; vol. v., Cambridge, 1890 . Annual Report, first to eleventh; Cambridge, 188090. Bulletin, vol. i. ; Boston, 1883.

ASHE, THOMAS: Travels in America performed in 1806 ; for the purpose of exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the Produce and Condition of their Banks and Vicinity. London, 1808.

ATWATER, CALEB : Description of the Antiquities discovered in the State of Ohio and other Western States. (In Archologia Americana, vol. i., 1820.)

BACON, OLMER N. : A History of Natick, from its First Settlement in 1651 to the Present Time. Boston, 1856.

BAEGERT, JACOB : An Account of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the California Peninsula. Translated by Charles Rau. (Smithsonian Report for 1863 and 1864 ; reprinted 1865 and 1875.)

BAKER, C. ALICE : True Stories of New England Captives. Cambridge, 1897.

BANCROFT, GEORGE : History of the United States. 9 vols. Boston, 1838-75.

BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE : Works. 39 vols. San Francisco, 1886 90. (Vols. i.v., Native Races ; vi.-vii., Central America ; ix.-xiv., North Mexican States and Texas ; xvii., Arizona and New Mexico ; xviii.-xxiv., California ; xxv., Nevada, Colorado , Wyoming ; xxvi., Utah ; xxvii.xxviii., North-west Coast ; xxix.-xxx., Oregon ; xxxi., Washington, Idaho , Montana ; xxxii., British Columbia ; xxxiii., Alaska ; xxxiv., California Pastoral ; xxxv., California inter Pacula ; xxxvi.-xxxvii., Popular Tribunals ; xxxviii., Essays and Miscellany ; xxxix., Literary Industries. )

BANDELIER, ADOLF F. : Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico. ( Papers of the Archological Institute of America, American Series, vol. i., Boston, 1881.)

Final Report of Investigations among the Indians to of the South-western United States, carried on mainly in the Years from 1880 to 1885. (Papers of the Archological Institute of America, American Series, vol. iii., Cambridge, 1890 ; vol. iv., Cambridge, 1892.)

BARRATT, JOSEPH : The Indian of New England and the North-eastern Provinces : a Sketch of the Life of an Indian Hunter, Ancient Traditions relating to the Etchemin Tribe, etc. Middletown, Conn., 1851.

BARTON, BENJAMIN S.: New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America. Philadelphia, 1797. Ibid., 1798.

BARTRAM, JOHN : Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other Matters worthy of Notice made by Mr. John Bartram, in his Travels from Pentilvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario in Canada, to which is annexed a Curious Account of the Cataracts of Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm. London, 1751.

BARTRAM, WILLIAM : Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia, 1791. London, 1792.

BATTEY, THOMAS C. : Life and Adventures of a Quaker anong the Indians Boston and New York, 1875. Ibid., 1876.

BEACH, WILLIAM W.: The Indian Mircellany : containing Papers on the History, Antiquities, Arts, Languages, Religions, Traditions, and Superstitions of the American Aborigines. Albany, 1877.

BEAUCHAMP, WILLIAM M. : The Iroquois Trail; or, Footprints of the Six Nations. Fayetteville, N.Y., 1892.

BELL, A. W. : On the Native Races of New Mexico. (Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, New Series, vol. i., Session 186869 ; London, 1869.)

BELL, ROBERT : The Medicine-man ; or, Indian and Eskimo Notions of Medicine. (Canada Medical and Surgical Journal, Montreal, MarchApril, 1886.)

BLISS, EUGENE F. (Editor) : Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary among the Indians of Ohio . 2 vols. Cincinnati, 1885.

BOAS, FRANZ : Songs and Dances of the Kwakiutl. (Journal of American Folk-lore, vol. i.; Boston, 1888.)

Chinook Texts. (Bulletin 20, Bureau of American Ethnology ; Washington, 1895.)

The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians. (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. ii., Anthropology, i. ; New York, 1898.)

Kathlamet Texts. (Bulletin 26, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, 1901.)

Tsimshian Texts. (Bulletin 27, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, 1902.)

BOLLAERT, WILLIAM : Observations on the Indian Tribes in Texas. (Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. ii., 1850.)

BOLLER, HENRY A. : Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West : 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake. Philadelphia, 1868.

BONNELL, GEORGE W. : Topographical Description of Texas ; to which is added an Account of the Indian Tribes. Austin, 1840.

BOSCANA, GERONIMO : Chinigchinich ; a Historical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Traditions of the Indians at the Missionary Establishment of St. Juan Capistrano, Alta California, called the Acagchemem Nation. (In Alfred Robinsons Life in California ; New York, 1846.)

BOURKE, JOHN G. : The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona ; being a Narrative of a Journey from Santa F, New Mexico, to the Villages of the Moqui Indians of Arizona. New York, 1884.

BRICKELL, JOHN : The Natural History of North Carolina; with an Account of the Trade, Manners, and Customs of the Christian and Indian Inhabitants. Dublin, 1737.

BRINTON, DANIEL G. : Myths of the New World. New York, 1868.

National Legend of the Chahta-Muskokee Tribes. Morrisania, N.Y., 1870.

American Hero-myths : A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent. Philadelphia, 1882.

Essays of an Americanist. Philadelphia, 1890.

The American Race. New York, 1891.

BROWNELL, CHARLES DE W.: The Indian Races of North and South America. Boston, 1853.

BUCHANAN, JAMES : Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, with a plan for their Melioration. Vols. i.ii. New York, 1824. Ibid., 1825.

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION) : Annual Reports, i.xxvi.; Washington, 18811908. Bulletins, 149 ; Washington, 18871910. Introductions, i.iv.; Washington, 18771880. Miscellaneous Publications, 19 ; Washington, 1880 1907. Contributions to North American Ethnology (q.v.).

BUSHNELL, D. 1., Jr.: The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. (Bulletin 48, Bureau of American Ethnology ; Washington, 1909.)