A Selected Bibliography for American Indian Research

General

  • Brandon, William Indians [E 58 B82]
  • Church, Benjamin The History of Philip's War, Commonly called the Great Indian War, of 1675 and 1676 [E 83.67 C5 Rare Book]
  • Drake, Samuel Gardner History of the Early Discovery of America and Landing of the Pilgrims; with a Biography of the Indians of North America [E 78 D76]
  • Hill, Edward E. Guide to the Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians [E 93 H55]
  • Indian Affairs Papers, American Revolution [E 99 I7 I38]
  • Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762 [Penn. G 76.5 Oversize]
  • Josephy, Alvin M. The Indian Heritage of America [E 58 J6]
  • A Mixed Race : Ethnicity in Early America [PS 186 M58]
  • Ottery, Will A Man Called Sampson [G SA 4863]
  • Thayer, Henry Otis The Indians' Administration of Justice [Maine G 27]
  • United States. National Archives and Records Service American Indians: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications [E 93 U53]
  • Waldman, Carl Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes [E 76.2 W35]
  • Waldman, Carl Who Was Who in Native American History: Indians and Non-Indians from Early Contacts through 1900 [E 89 W35]

Genealogy

  • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth How to Research Indian Blood Lines: a Manual on Indian Genealogical Research [E 98 G44 C37]
  • Major Genealogical Record Sources of Indians of the United States [E 98 G44]
  • Walton-Raji, Angela Y. Black Indian Genealogy Research: African American Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes [CS 21 W34]

New York

  • Bolton, Reginald Pelham Indian Life of Long Ago in the City of New York [N.Y.C. G 75]
  • Long Island Indian Affairs: 1664-1681 [L.I. G 6.1]
  • New York (State). State Archives and Records Administration Guide Records Relating to Native Americans [N.Y. G 12.8073]
  • A Proud Heritage: Native American Services in New York State [N.Y. G 85.2]
  • Prevost, Toni Jollay Indians of New York: a Genealogy Reference [N.Y G 85.7]
  • Trelease, Allen W. Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: the Seventeenth Century [N.Y. G 85]

New England

  • Allen, Zachariah Defence of the Rhode Island System of Treatment of the Indians and of Civil and Religious Liberty [Rhode I. G 23]
  • Bourne, Russell The Red Kings Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England [N.E. G 35.5]
  • De Forest, John William History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850 [Conn. G 26]
  • Forbes, Allan Some Indian Events of New England [New Eng. G 26]

Other U.S. States

  • Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States [Penn. G 30.2 v. 12]
  • Nelson, William Personal Names of Indians of New Jersey [N .J. G 39]
  • Stewart, Frank H. Indians of Southern New Jersey [N .J. G 39.1]
  • Victor, Frances The Early Indian Wars of Oregon, Compiled from the Oregon Archives and Other Regional Sources [Ore. G 3.5]
  • Westervelt, Frances Augusta Johnson The Final Century of the Wampum Industry in Bergen County, New Jersey [N.J. L B453.14]
  • Westervelt, Frances Augusta Johnson The Indians of Bergen County [N. J. L B453.7]

Cherokee

  • Jordan, Jerry Wright Cherokee by Blood: Record of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1910 [ E 99 C5 J67]
  • McGhee, Lucy Kate Cherokee and Creek Indians, Returns of Property Left in Tennessee and Georgia, 1838 [Georgia G 13]
  • Parker, Thomas Valentine The Cherokee Indians, with Special Reference to their Relations with the United States Government [E 99 C5 P3]
  • Walker, Homer A. Cherokee Indian Census of 1838 of the States of Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina [E 99 C5 W3]

Iroquois

  • Beauchamp, William M. Iroquois Folklore [N.Y. G 85.9]
  • Graymont, Barbara The Iroquois in the American Revolution [E 99 I7 G67]
  • Hagen, William Thomas Longhorse Diplomacy and Frontier Warfare: the Iroquois Confederacy in the American Revolution [N.Y. G 57.71]
  • Hauptman, Laurence M. The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation [E 99 I7 H33]
  • Iroquois Land Claims [KFN 5940 V42]
  • Ketchum, William An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo, With Some Account of Its Early Inhabitants, Both Savage and Civilized, Comprising Historic Notices of the Six Tribes or Iroquois Indians… [N.Y. L B863]
  • Wilson, Edmund Apologies to the Iroquois [E 99 I7 W56]

Lenape

  • Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape: Archaeology, History and Ethnography [N.J. G 1.1 v.21]
  • Weslager, C. A. The Siconese Indians of Lewes, Delaware: a Historical Account of a "Great" Bayside Lenape Tribe [Del. L L5821]

Seneca

  • Beale, Irene A. Genesee Country Senecas [N.Y. G 66.515]
  • Merrill, Arch Land of the Senacas [N.Y. G 66.931]
  • Obsequies of Red Jacket at Buffalo [N.Y. L B863.22]

Other Tribes

  • Arnold, James Newell The Records of the Proprietors of the Narragansett, Otherwise Called the the Fones Record [Rhode I. G 26]
  • Dunn, Shirley W. The Mohicans and Their Land, 1609-1730 [E 99 M83 D86]
  • Flexner, James Thomas Lord of the Mohawk : a Biography of Sir William Johnson [E 195 J63 F57]
  • Pawnee Naming Ceremonial, Near Pawnee, Oklahoma, Armistice Day, November 11, 1932 [Okla. L P289.5]
  • Shattuck, George C. The Oneida Land Claims: a Legal History [KF 8228 S52]
  • Weslager, Clinton Alfred The Accomac and Accohannock Indians from Early Relations [Virginia L AC27.3]

Manuscripts

  • Record of Land in Rokaway [sic], Queens Granted to Thomas Townsend of Oyster Bay by Sachems of Masopag Indians, January 1, 1684 [File (Townsend Family)]

Compiled by Catherine M. Ellard, Assistant Librarian

Note. The references listed in the excellent bibliography above are no longer available at the NYG&B Library. They are, however, available at the New York Public Library where our collection is now housed.