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Bibliography - General Overview:
Bahr, Diana
2003 Viola Martinez - California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Benedict, Ruth
1923 The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Number 29.
Biolsi, Thomas, edited
2004 A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
Brown, Joseph Epes
1982 The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian. Crossroads.
Furst, Peter and Jill Furst
1982 North American Indian Art. New York: Rezzoli.
Gill, Sam
2005 Native American Religions: An Introduction. Second Edition. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth.
1983 Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations. Belmont, CA,: Wadsworth.
Gill, Sam and Irene Sullivan
1992 Dictionary of Native American Mythology. Santa Barbara, California:
Hultkrantz, Ake
1953 Conceptions of the Soul Among North American Indians: A Study in Religious Ethnology. Ethnographical Museum of Sweden.
1973 Prairie and Plains Indians. E. J. Brill.
1979 The Religions of the American Indians. University of California Press.
1987 Native Religions of North America: The Power of Visions and Fertility. New York: Harper and Row.
Hymes, Dell
1981 In vain I tried to tell you: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Klein, Laura and Lillian Ackerman
1995 Women and Power in Native North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Kroeber, Karl, ed.
1981 Traditional Literature of the American Indian. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
La Barre, Weston
1969 The Peyote Cult. Schocken.
Minnis, Paul
2000 Ethnobotany: A Reader. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Nabokov, Peter and Robert Easton
1989 Native American Architecture. Oxford University Press.
Oswalt, Wendell
1999 This Land Was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians. Sixth Edition. Mayfield.
Radin, Paul
1956 The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. (Extensive Winnebago Materials). Crown.
Ramsey, Jarold
1977 Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country. (A nice Nez Perce section). University of Washington Press.
Reyhner, Jon and Jeanne Eder
2004 American Indian Education: A History. University of Oklahoma Press.
Sherzer, Joel and Anthony Woodbury, ed.
1987 Native American Discourse: Poetics and rhetoric. Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press.
Spencer, Robert and Jesse Jennings, et al.
1977 The Native Americans: Ethnology and Background of the North American Indians. Harper and Row.
Stewart, Omer
1987 Peyote Religion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Sturtevant, William, ed.
1978-1998 Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 4, History of Indian-White Relations; vol. 5, Arctic; vol. 6, Subarctic; vol. 8, California; vol. 9, Southwest; vol. 10, Southwest; vol. 11, Great Basin; vol. 12, Plateau; vol. 15, Northeast; vol. 17, Languages. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. (also provides excellent bibliographic information)
Swann, Brian, ed.
1983 Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. (only a few stories)
1987 Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
1992 On the Translation of Native American Literatures. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1994 Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literature of North America. New York: Random House. (an excellent collection of stories)
Tedlock. Dennis
1983 The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Tedlock, Dennis and Barbara Tedlock, ed.
1975 Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy. Liverright.
Thompson, Stith
1929 Tales of the North American Indians. Indiana University Press.
Walker, Deward, ed.
1970 Systems of North American Witchcraft and Sorcery. University of Idaho.
Sub-Arctic:
Callicott, J. Baird and Michael Nelson
2004 American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall
Helm, June, ed.
1981 Handbook of North American Indians, Subartic. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Nelson, Richard
1969 Hunters of the Northern I ce. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
1983 Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukan View of the Northern Forest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Speck, Frank
1935 Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula. University of Oklahoma Press.
Cree Hunters of Mistassini (film)
Southeastern:
Mooney, James
1897-98 "Myths of the Cherokee." Bureau of American Ethnology 19th Annual Report. pp. 3-548. Smithsonian Institution.
California:
Aginsky, Burt W. and Ethel G. Aginsky
1967 Deep Valley: The Pomo Indians of California. Stein and Day
de Angulo, Jamie
1953 Indian Tales. Hill and Wang.
Heizer, Robert, ed.
1978Handbook of North American Indians, California. Vol. 8. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Kroeber, A. L.
1925 Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution
Kroeber, Theodora
1959 The Inland Whale: Nine Stories from California Indian Legends. University of California Press.
Ray, Verne
1963 Primitive Pragmatists: The Modoc Indians of Northern California. American Ethnological Society, Monograph 38. University of Washington Press.
Sarris, Greg
1993 Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts. University of California Press.
1994 Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream. University of California Press.
Great Basin:
Allen, W. A.
1913The Sheep Eaters. New York: The Shakespeare Press. (Montana group)
D'Azevedo, Warren, ed.
1986 Handbook of North American Indians, Great Basin. Vol. 11. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Downs, James
1966 The Two Worlds of the Washo: An Indian Tribe of California and Nevada. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Lowie, Robert
1909 The Northern Shoshone. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 2, part 2.
Madsen, Brigham
1958 The Bannock of Idaho. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton.
1979 The Lemhi: Sacajawea's People. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton.
1980 The Northern Shoshone. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton.
Miller, Wick
1972 Newe Natekwinappeh: Shoshoni Stories and Dictionary. Anthropological Papers, number 94 University of Utah.
Park, Willard
1938 Shamanism in Western North America: A Study in Cultural Relations. (Paiute) (Cooper Square 1975 Reprint)
Steward, Julian
1938 Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 120. Smithsonian Institution.
Smith, Anne
1993 Shoshone Tales. University of Utah Press.
Whiting, Beatirce
1950 Paiute Sorcery. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, number 15. Wenner-Glen Foundation.
Wood, Nancy
1980 When Buffalo Free the Mountains. (Utes) Doubleday and Company.
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