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.

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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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