Plateau Indian Bibliography
A Text and Video Reference
(* possible sources of oral traditions for re-telling)
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"Heart of the Monster," near Kamiah on the Nez Perce Reservation - 1993 |
General:
Ackerman, Lillian.
2003 A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power Among Indians of the Columbia Plateau. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Ackerman, Lillian, ed.
1996 A Song to the Creator: Traditional Arts of Native American Women of the Plateau. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Ackerman, Lillian and Laura Klein.
1995 Women and Power in Native North America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Anastasio, Angelo.
1972 The Southern Plateau: An Ecological Analysis of Intergroup Relations. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 6(2):109-229. Moscow, Idaho. (Reprint with minor revisions of his 1955 Ph.D. Dissertation).
Frey, Rodney *
1995 Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest. As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail and other Elders. Edited with introductions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Grafe, Steven
2005 Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorehouse, 1898-1915. University of Oklahoma Press.
Harless, Susan, ed.
1998 Native Arts of the Columbia Plateau: The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.
Hymes, Dell
1981 "In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Idaho Centennial Commission
1990 Idaho Indians: Tribal Histories. Boise: Idaho Centennial Commission.
Keyser, James
1992 Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau. University of Washington Press.
Levi-Strauss, Claude
1995 Story of Lynx. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Liljeblad, Sven
1972 The Idaho Indians in Transition 1805-1960. Pocatello: Idaho State University Museum.
Ramsey, Jarold
1977 Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.
Ruby, Robert and John Brown
1989 Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Schlick, Mary Dodds
1994 Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gifts of the Earth. University of Washington Press.
Smyth, Willie and Esme Ryan, ed.
1999 Spirit of the First Peoples: Native American Music Traditions of Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Teit, James, Marian Gould, Livingston Farrand and Herbert Spinden, ed. by Franz Boas
1917 Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes. Lancaster, Pennsylvania and New York: Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. 11.
Trafzer, Clifford, ed.
1998 Grandmother, Grandfather and Old Wolf: Tamanwit Ku Sukat and Traditional Native American Narratives from the Columbia Plateau. East Lansing: Michigan State University.
Walker, Deward
1980 Myths of Idaho Indians. Moscow, Idaho: University Press of Idaho.
1982 Indians of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: University Press of Idaho.
Walker, Deward, ed.
1998 Handbook of North American Indians, Plateau. Vol. 12. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Coeur d'Alene:
Frey, Rodney *
1995 Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest. As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail and other Elders. Edited with introductions. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
2001 Landscape Traveled by Crane and Coyote: The World of the Schitsu'umsh - Coeur d'Alene Indians. In collaboration with the Schitsu'umsh. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Palmer, Gary, Lawrence Nicodemus and Lavinia Felsmen
1987 Khwi Khwe Hnlmikhwlumkhw "This is My Land." Plummer, Idaho: Coeur d'Alene Tribe.
Peterson, Jacqueline
1993 Sacred Encounters: Father DeSmet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountains. University of Oklahoma Press.
Point, Father Nicholas
1967 The Wilderness Kingdom: Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840-1847. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Reichard, Gladys *
1947 An Analysis of Coeur d'Alene Indian Myths. Philadelphia: Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 41.
Teit, James
1930 The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateau. Lancaster, Pennsylvania and New York: Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 45:23-197, 295-396, 447-758. Smithsonian Institution.
Colville:
Mattina, Anthony
1985 The Golden Woman. The Colville Narrative of Peter J. Seymour. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Mourning Dove, ed. by Heister Dean Guie with notes by L. V. McWhorter. Introduction and notes by Jay Miller. *
1990 Coyote Stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Ray, Verne
1932 The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northwestern Washington. Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Anthropology 5.
1933 Sanpoil Folk Tales. Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society 46:129-187.
Turner, Nancy, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy
1980 Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum 21, Occasional Paper Series.
Flathead:
Merriam, Alan
1967 Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians. Wenner-Gren Foundation
Miller, Harriet and Elizabeth Harrison
1974 Coyote Tales of the Montana Salish. Rapid City, South Dakota: U.S. Department of the Interior, Tipi Shop.
Peterson, Jacqueline
1993 Sacred Encounters: Father DeSmet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountains. University of Oklahoma Press
Point, Father Nicholas
1967 The Wilderness Kingdom: Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840-1847. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Teit, James
1930 The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateau. Lancaster, Pennsylvania and New York: Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 45:23-197, 295-396, 447-758. Smithsonian Institution.
Turney-High, Harry
1937 The Flathead Indians of Montana. Menasha, Wisconsin: Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 48.
Woodcock, Clarence, ed. *
1979 Stories from Our Elders. Pablo, Montana: Flathead Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Klamath:
Barker, M. R. *
1963 Klamath Texts. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Linguistics 30.
Spier, Leslie
1930 Klamath Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 30.
Stern, T.
1965 The Klamath Tribe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, American Ethnological Society, Monograph 41.
Kootenai (Kutenai):
Boas, Franz and A. Chamberlain *
1918 Kutenai Tales. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 49:1-387. Smithsonian Institution.
Kootenai Culture Committee
1997 Ktunaxa Legends. Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press.
Lindburg, Donald
1962 Social Organization of the Kutenai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Schaeffer, Claude.
1940 The Subsistence Quest of the Kutenai: A Study of the Interaction of Culture and Environment. Dissertation in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
1949 "Wolf and Two-Pointed Buck: A Lower Kutenai Tale of the Supernatural Period. " Primitive Man 22 (1/2):1-22.
1965 "The Kutenai Female Berdache: Courier, Guide, Prophetess and Warrior." Ethnohistory 12(3):193-236
Turney-High, Harry
1941 Ethnography of the Kutenai. Menasha, Wisconsin: Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 43.
Woodcock, Clarence, ed. *
1979 Stories from Our Elders. Pablo, Montana: Flathead Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Lillooet:
Teit, James
1906 The Lillooet Indians. Leiden and New York: Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History 9 (5).
1912b Traditions of the Lillooet Indians of British Columbia. Journal of American Folk-Lore Society 25:287-371.
Nez Perce:
Aoki, Haruo *
1979 Nez Perce Texts. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Publications in Linguistics 90.
Aoki, Haruo and Deward Walker *
1989 Nez Perce Oral Narratives. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Publications in Linguistics 104.
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"Heart of the Monster" - ca. 1890 - Photographed by E. Jane Gay (Idaho State Historical Society) |
Axtell, Horace and Margo Aragon
1997 A Little Bit of Wisdom: Conversations with a Nez Perce Elder. Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press.
Hines, Donald
1984 Tales of the Nez Perce. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press.
Josephy, Alvin. (on Nez Perce History)
1965 The Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest. Houghton Mifflin.
Lewis, Bonnie Sue
2003 Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. University of Oklahoma Press.
McWhortor, Lucullus (on Nez Perce History)
1940 Yellow Wolf: His Own Story Caxton Printers
1952 Hear Me, My Chiefs!: Nez Perce Legend and History. Caxton Printers
Phinney, Archie *
1934 Nez Perce Text. New York: Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 23.
Slickpoo, Allen, Sr., Leroy Seth and Deward Walker, Jr. *
1972 Nu Mee Poom Tit Wah Tit (Nez Perce Legends). Lapwai, Idaho: Tribal Publications.
Spinden, Herbert
1908 The Nez Perce Indians. Memoirs, American Anthropological Association 11(3). (Reprinted: Millwood, New York: Krause Reprint, 1974).
Walker, Deward
1994 Blood of the Monster: The Nez Perce Coyote Cycle. High Plains Publishing Company.
Okanagon:
Louis, S.
2002 Q'sapi: A History of the Okanagan People as Told by Okanogan Families. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books.
Robinson, Harry, compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire *
1989 Write it on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller. Vancouver: Talonbooks/Theytus.
1992 Native Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Spier, Leslie, ed.
1938 The Sinkaietk or Southern Okanagan of Washington. Mensaha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing, General Studies in Anthropology, 6.
Turner, Nancy, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy
1980 Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington. Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum 21, Occasional Paper Series.
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"Heart of the Monster" - 2001 |
Sahaptin:
Jacobs, Melville *
1929 Northwest Sahaptin Texts. Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, 2:175-244.
1934, 1937 Northwest Sahaptin Texts. New York: Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 19 (1 and 2).
Shuswap:
Teit, James
1909 The Shuswap. Leiden and New York: Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History 4 (7).
Thompson:
Hanna, Darwin and Mamie Henry *
1996 Our Telling: Interior Salish Stories of the Nlha7kapmx People. University of British Columbia Press.
Teit, James
1898 Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia. Boston and New York: Memoirs, American Folk-Lore Society 6.
1900 The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. New York: Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History 11 (4).
1912a Mythology of the Thompson Indians. Leiden and New York: Jesup North
Warm Springs:
Aguilar, George
2005 When the River Ran Wild: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. Oregon Historical Society Press.
Wishram:
Sapir, Edward *
1909 Wishram Texts. Leyden: Publications of the American Ethnological Society 2.
Spier, Leslie and Edward Sapir
1930 Wishram Ethnography. Seattle: University of Washington Publications in Anthropology 3.
Yakama:
Aguilar, George
2005 When the River Ran Wild: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation. Oregon Historical Society Press.
Hunn, Eugene, with James Selam and Family
1990 Nch'i-Wama "The Big River" Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.
Video
David SoHappy (50 min., the 1982 "salmon scam" on the Columbia River)
Faithful To Continuance: Legacy of the Plateau People (Mimres Fever 2002)
Handgame (65 min., a 2000 Larry Johnson film, Handgame/Stick Game instructions)
Hatiya (26 min., life on the Umatilla Reservation ca 1890s)
Return to the River: The Indian Fishery at Celilo Falls (Harry Paget 1997)
Sacred Journey of the Nez Perce (Idaho Public Television)
Seasons of the Salish (27 min.)
Surviving Lewis and Clark: the Nimíipuu Story (35 min., a great introduction to the history of the Nez Perce Tribe, a 2006 film
Web Video
in the Lifelong Learning Online Modules
Nimiipu - Nez Perce
Schitsu'umsh - Coeur d'Alene
Warm Springs - Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
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