American Indian History HIS 2115 - Newman

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Relevant secondary sources could show up in a lot of places in the physical library collection. It depends on the angle of the topic - are you focused on regional history, arts, games, literature? Here are some library collections that may be helpful:

• BIOGRAPHY: Organized by last name of person whose life is the focus, not by the author's last name (unless it is a memoir)
• NON-FICTION: Dewey Decimal Call numbers could be around 970 to 979 (North America), 700 (arts), 323 (social conditions, politics), 371 (education/boarding schools), 800 (literary analysis, short stories, poems) or other nonfiction locations depending on the topic, time period, or focus.
• OVERSIZE: includes a lot of history and art books
• REFERENCE

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• The Aztecs / Michael E. Smith
• The Maya, Michael D. Coe
• Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places: A War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes, Andrew K. Scherer & John W. Verano
• Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann
• The water mysteries of Mesa Verde / Kenneth R. Wright
• Anasazi America : seventeen centuries on the road from center place / David E. Stuart
• The Anasazi of Mesa Verde and the Four Corners / William M. Ferguson
• Canyon spirits : beauty and power in the ancestral Puebloan world / photographs by John Ninnemann
• Mesa Verde and the Four Corners / by William H. Jackson, William H. Holmes
• The Chaco Anasazi : sociopolitical evolution in the prehistoric Southwest / Lynne Sebastian
• In search of the old ones : exploring the Anasazi world of the Southwest / David Roberts
• Cahokia : ancient America's great city on the Mississippi / Timothy R. Pauketat
• American genesis: the American Indian and the origins of modern man / Jeffrey Goodman (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• - The mighty Aztecs / by Gene S. Stuart (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• -Obsidian sky / Guy Garcia (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• -1491, Charles C. Mann (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• -Chronology of American Indian history : the trail of the wind / Liz Sonneborn (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The encyclopedia of North American Indian tribes : a comprehensive study of tribes from the Abitibi to the Zuni / Bill Yenne (OFFSITE AT PROSPECT)

• 1493, Charles C. Mann
• The Middle Ground, Richard White
• Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American narrative, Robert S. Tilton
• Pocahontas & the Powhatan Dilemma, Camilla Townsend
• Rotting face : smallpox and the American Indian / R.G. Robertson
• Born to Die: Disease & New World Conquest, 1492-1650, Noble David Cook
• Linking arms together : American Indian treaty visions of law and peace, 1600-1800 / Robert A. Williams, Jr
• The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee / Jeffrey Ostler
• A spirited resistance : the North American Indian struggle for unity, 1745-1815 / Gregory Evans Dowd
• Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
• Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763, Fowler Jr. (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• French and Indian War, Laurie Collier Hillstrom & Kevin Hillstrom (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in 18^th century America, Nancy Shoemaker (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Carolina in crisis : Cherokees, colonists, and slaves in the American southeast, 1756-1763, Daniel J. Tortora (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Dispossessing the American Indian; Indians and whites on the colonial frontier, by Wilbur R. Jacobs (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• A forest of time : American Indian ways of history / Peter Nabokov. (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Pueblo Revolt : the secret rebellion that drove the Spaniards out of the Southwest / David Roberts (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The wild frontier : atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee / William M. Osborn (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• North American Indian art / David W. Penney
• North American Indian mythology / Cottie Burland
• Acoma & Laguna pottery / Rick Dillingham with Melinda Elliott
• The Iroquois eagle dance; an offshoot of the Calumet dance with An analysis of the Iroquois eagle dance and songs, by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian languages : the historical linguistics of Native America  / Lyle Campbell
• American Indian languages : cultural and social contexts / Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller
• Listening to our ancestors : the art of native life along the north pacific coast / introduction by chief Robert Joseph
• American colonial history : clashing cultures and faiths / Thomas S. Kidd.
• Handbook of American Indian games / Allan and Paulette Macfarlan (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian myths & mysteries / Vincent H. Gaddis (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Aboriginal American Indian basketry : studies in a textile art without machinery / Otis Tufton Mason (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Matte-paint pottery of the Tewa, Keres and Zuni Pueblos / Francis H. Harlow (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Kokopelli : fluteplayer images in rock art / Dennis Slifer & James Duffield (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Spirits, heroes & hunters from North American Indian mythology / text by Marion Wood (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• The Iroquois / Dean R. Snow      
• Iroquois: People of the Longhouse / Michael G. Johnson
• Choctaw language and culture : Chahta Anumpa / by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis
• The Iroquois in the War of 1812 / Carl Benn
• The Indian Removal Act: Forced Relocation, Mark Stewart
• The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.
• Living In The Land Of Death : The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860 / Donna L. Akers.
• Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American Land Grab / Steve Inskeep
• Rifles for Waite, Harold Keith
• The Iroquois /  Raymond Bial (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Seminoles / Edwin C. McReynolds (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida nation of Indians of Wisconsin / Hauptman & McLester.(OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew’s Regiment of Mounted Rifles, W. Craig Gaines (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Voices From The Trail Of Tears / edited By Vicki Rozema. (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The ambiguous Iroquois empire : the Covenant Chain confederation of Indian tribes with English colonies from its beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 / by Francis Jennings (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Fathers and children : Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of the American Indian / Michael Paul Rogin (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians, Anthony F.C. Wallace (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• Indian Chiefs, Russell Freedman
• Cochise : Chiricahua Apache chief / Edwin R. Sweeney
• Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy / Kent Nerburn
• Chief Joseph : guardian of the people / Candy Moulton
• Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux / John G. Neihardt
• Crazy Horse : a Lakota life / Kingsley M. Bray
• Crazy Horse and Custer : the parallel lives of two American warriors / by Stephen E. Ambrose (Available Via Hoopla)
• Crazy Horse : the life behind the legend / Mike Sajna
• The lance and the shield : the life and times of Sitting Bull / Robert M. Utley
• Black Kettle : the Cheyenne chief who sought peace but found war / Thom Hatch
• The fox and the whirlwind : General George Crook and Geronimo : a paired biography / Peter Aleshire
• Geronimo : a biography / Alexander B. Adams
• Geronimo's story of his life / taken down and edited by S.M. Barrett
• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker & the Rise & Fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian Tribe in American History / S.C. Gwynne
• Ojibwa warrior : Dennis Banks and the rise of the American Indian Movement / Dennis Banks with Richard Erdoes
• Where white men fear to tread : the autobiography of Russell Means / Russell Means, with Marvin J. Wolf (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Sitting Bull : champion of the Sioux : a biography / by Stanley Vestal (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Autobiography of Red Cloud : war leader of the Oglalas / edited by R. Eli Paul (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• The making of Sacagawea: a Euro-American legend / Donna J. Kessler (EBOOK AVAILABLE by logging in with your S number)
• The song of Sakakawea (Bird-Woman): the Indian guide and interpretress of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Robert Wallace Smith
• The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867 / Andrei Val’terovich Grinev, translated by Richard L. Bland & Katerina G. Solovjova (EBOOK AVAILABLE by logging in with your S number)
• The Shawnee Prophet / by R. David Edmunds
• The Shawnees and the war for America / Colin G. Calloway
• Tecumseh : a life / John Sugden (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Tecumseh and the quest for Indian leadership / R. David Edmunds (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian warrior chiefs : Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo / Jason Hook (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Two Leggings : the making of a Crow warrior / [edited by] Peter Nabokov

• The last campaign [large print] : Sherman, Geronimo and the war for America / H.W. Brands.
• -Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West / Dee Brown
• -In the shadow of Wounded Knee : the untold final chapter of the Indian Wars / Roger L. Di Silvestro
• -Voices of Wounded Knee / by William S.E. Coleman
• Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation of Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
• The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Nathaniel Philbrick
• Showdown at the Little Big Horn, Dee Brown
• Blood at Sand Creek : the massacre revisited / Bob Scott
• Finding Sand Creek : history, archeology, and the 1864 massacre site / Jerome A. Greene & Douglas D. Scott
• Son of the Morning Star, Evan S. Connell
• Bound to have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars, Hugh J. Reilly
• Buffalo nation : American Indian efforts to restore the bison / Ken Zontek 
• The Buffalo Hunters, Mari Sandoz
• American Indian holocaust and survival : a population history since 1492 / by Russell Thornton (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• North American Indian wars / Richard H. Dillon (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Indian Wars of the West, Paul I. Wellman (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Indian Fighting Army, Fairfax Downey (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• American Indian education : a history / Jon Reyhner, Jeanne Eder
• America's second tongue : American Indian education and the ownership of English, 1860-1900 / Ruth Spack
• Voices of American Indian assimilation and resistance : Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard
• Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher, Esther Burnett Horne, Sally McBeth
• Jim Thorpe: Greatest Athlete in the World, Jennifer Fandel
• Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football’s Greatest Battle, Lars Anderson
• Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe, Kate Buford
• Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875-1928 / by David Wallace Adams (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 / by Brenda J. Child (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences / by Clifford E. Trafzer (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• No Turning Back / Polingaysi Qoyawayma (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences 1879-2000 / by Margaret L. Archuleta (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Bright Path: Young Jim Thorpe / Don Brown (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Kill the Indian, save the man : the genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools / by Ward Churchill (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• World War II and the American Indian / Kenneth William Townsend
• Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac
• Code Talker, Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila
• Ira Hayes: Pima Marine / Albert Hemingway (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story / S.D. Nelson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• Grave injustice : the American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
• The unquiet grave : the FBI and the struggle for the soul of Indian country / Steve Hendricks
• The art of protest : culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle / T.V. Reed
• American Indian treaties : the history of a political anomaly / Francis Paul Prucha
• American Indians and the law / N. Bruce Duthu
• Our elders lived it : American Indian identity in the city / Deborah Davis Jackson
• The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination /Troy R. Johnson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• Shaping survival : essays by four American Indian tribal women / Lanniko L. Lee ... [et al.] ; edited by Jack W. Marken and Charles L. Woodard
• Daughters of the earth : the lives and legends of American Indian women / by Carolyn Niethammer
• The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions : with a new preface / Paula Gunn Allen
• A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian women, telling their lives / by Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings / Winona LaDuke (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Winona LaDuke: Restoring Land And Culture in Native America, Michael Siverstone (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Andrea Smith
• Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women / Edited by Barbara Alice Mann (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• Indian Boyhood, / Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman)
• God is red : a native view of religion / Vine Deloria, Jr
• The Soul of the Indian / Charles Alexander Eastman (Available Via Hoopla)
• Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing / edited by MariJo Moore ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr
• Voice of the turtle : American Indian literature, 1900-1970 / edited & an introduction by Paula Gunn Allen
• Rolling Thunder : a personal exploration into the secret healing powers of an American Indian medicine man / by Doug Boyd (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / edited by Margot Liberty (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The art of American Indian cooking / by Yeffe Kimball and Jean Anderson ; foreword by Will Rogers, Jr. (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Crafts from North American Indian arts : techniques, designs, and contemporary applications / Mary Lou Stribling (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian prose and poetry : we wait in the darkness / edited and introduced by Gloria Levitas, Frank Robert Vivelo, Jacqueline J. Vivelo (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The world we used to live in : remembering the powers of the medicine men / Vine Deloria, Jr (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold, / Charles A. Eastman (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• American Indian places : a historical guidebook / Frances H. Kennedy
• A companion to American Indian history / edited by Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury
• The patriot chiefs : a chronicle of American Indian resistance /  Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Major Problems in American Indian History, Albert L. Hurtado (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indians / edited by Nancy Shoemaker
• Disinherited: the lost birthright of the American Indian / Dale Van Every (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The American Indian speaks / Edited by John R. Milton (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Encyclopedia of American Indian contributions to the world : 15,000 years of inventions and innovations / Emory Dean Keoke (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• American Indian Biographies / Edited Carole Barrett (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Crimsoned Prairie / S.L.A. Marshall (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• War Cries on Horseback / Stephen Longstreet (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• The Sioux: The Dakota & Lakota Nations / Guy Gibbon (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

• Encyclopedia of American Indian costume / Josephine Paterek
• Do all Indians live in tipis? : questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian / foreword by Rick West ; introduction by Wilma Mankiller (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Dancing at halftime : sports and the controversy over American Indian mascots / Carol Spindel (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)
• Indian games and dances with native songs : arranged from American Indian ceremonials and sports / by Alice C. Fletcher (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)