BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR
AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Gary Palmer, January 8, 1996
Bibliographies and Reference Volumes
- Murdock, George Peter (1972) Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. 2nd Ed. HRAF Press.
- Sturtevant, William. Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution. Several Volumes by culture area.
- Kroeber, A. L. (1953) Handbook of the Indians of California. California Book Co. Ltd.
- Fowler, Catherine. (1970) Great Basin Anthropology: A Bibliography. Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada System.
- Gill, Sam D. and Irene F. Sullivan. (1994) Dictionary of Native American Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Textbooks and Edited Collections
- Driver, Harold E. (1969) Indians of North America. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press.
- Spencer, Robert (1977) The Native Americans. 2nd ed. Harper and Row, Publishers.
- Thompson, Stith. (1966) Tales of the North American Indians. Indiana University Press.
- Underhill, Ruth M. (1953) Red Man's America: A History of Indians in the United States. University of Chicago Press.
Lower Colorado, Nevada, and Mojave Desert Tribes
- d'Azevedo, Warren (1985) Straight with the Medicine: Narratives of Washoe Followers of the Tipi Way. Berkeley: Heyday Books. [Peyotism]
- Fowler, Don and Catherine Fowler. (1971) Anthropology of the Numa: John Wesley Powell's Manuscripts on the Numic Peoples of Western North America. Smithsonian.
- Kelly, Elizabeth (1971) Southern Paiute Ethnography. Johnson Reprint Corporation.
- Laird, Carobeth (1976) The Chemehuevis. Malki Museum Press.
Other Case Studies and Collections of Tales
- Bahr, Donald, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden (1994) The Short Swift Time of the Gods on Earth. University of California Press.
- Basso, Keith (1990) Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
- Basso, Keith (1979) Portraits of "the Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache. Cambridge U. Pr.
- Blackburn, Thomas C. (1975) December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. U. of California Press.
- Bright, William (1993) A Coyote Reader. University of California Press.
- Bunzel, Ruth (1933) Zuni Texts. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 15.
- Buzaljko, Grace, ed. (1980) Karok Myths [of] A.L. Kroeber and E. W. Gifford. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Clark, Ella E. (1953) Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. University of California.
- Courlander, Harold (1971) The Fourth World of the Hopis. New York: Crown Publishers.
- Cushing, Frank (1896) Outline of Zuni Creation Myths. Smithsonian Inst., BAE 13th Ann. Rep., pp. 325-447.
- Cushing, Frank (1988) The Mythic World of the Zuni. University of New Mexico Press.
- Dorsey (1904) Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. Houghton Mifflin.
- Farnell, Brenda (1995) Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action. U. Texas Pr.
- Farnell, Brenda (1995) Wiyuta: Assiniboine Storytelling with Signs. Compact Disc. U. Texas Pr.
- Giddings, Ruth W. (1959) Yaqui Myths and Legends. U. of Arizona Pr.
- Goetz, Delia and Sylvanus G. Morley (1993) Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya. University of Oklahoma.
- Goodwin, Grenville (1994 [1938]) Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache. U. Arizona Pr.
- Gossen, Gary (1974) Chamulas in the World of the Sun. Waveland Press Inc. [Maya, Chiapas]
- Grinnell, George Bird (1962) Blackfoot Lodge Tales. University of Nebraska Press.
- Grinnell, George Bird (1961) Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. University of Nebraska Press.
- Haile, Father Bernard, O. F. M. (1981) The Upward Moving and Emergence Way. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Harrington, John P. (1972) Karuk Indian Myths. Ramona: Ballena Press [Repr. of BAE Bull. 107, Smithsonian Institution].
- Hill, Jane H. and Rosinda Nolasquez, eds. (1973) Mulu'wetam: the First People; Cupeno Oral History and Language. Banning, Calif., Malki Museum Press.
- Hinton, Leanne (1994) Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages. Berkeley: Heydey Books.
- Kluckhohn, Clyde (1962) Navaho Witchcraft. Beacon. [stories about witches]
- Kroskrity, Paul V. (1993) Language, History, and Identity: Ethnolinguistic Studies of the Arizona Tewa. U. of Arizona Press.
- Lame Deer, John (Fire) and Richard Erdoes (1972) Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions. Simon & Schuster.
- Lang, Julian (199?) Ararap’kva: Traditional Karuk Indian Literature from Northwestern California. Berkeley: Heydey Books.
- Leon-Portilla, Miguel (1993) Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World. University of Oklahoma.
- McAllester, David P. (1954) Enemy Way Music: A Study of Social and Esthetic Values as Seen in Navaho Music. Pap. Peabody Mus. of Amer. Arch. & Ethnol., Harvard U., Vol. 41, No. 3.
- McAllester, David P. (1949) Peyote Music. Viking Fund Publ. Ant. No. 13.
- Malotki, Ekkehart (1985) Gullible Coyote. University of Arizona Press.
- Malotki, Ekkehart (1984) Hopi Coyote Tales. University of Nebraska Press.
- Malotki, Ekkehart (1987) Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. University of Nebraska Press.
- Mooney, James (1965) The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. University of Chicago. [Ghost Dance songs]
- Mooney, James (1900) Myths of the Cherokee. Smithsonian Inst., BAE, 19th Ann. Rep., pp. 242-49.
- Mooney, James (1891) The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. 7th Ann. Report of Bur. Am. Ethnol. for 1885-86. Washington.
- Neihardt, John (1961) Black Elk Speaks. U. Nebraska.
- Parsons, Elsie Clews (1994) Tewa Tales. U. Arizona Pr.
- Phinney, Archie (1969) Nez Perce Texts. AMS Press.
- Powers, William (1993) Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota. University of Oklahoma.
- Radin, Paul (1972) The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. Schocken Books.
- Reichard, Gladys (1963) Navajo Religion. Pantheon Books.
- Reichard, Gladys (1947) An Analysis of Coeur d'Alene Indian Myths. American Folklore Society (Kraus Reprint Co., 1969)
- Saxton, Dean and Lucille (1973) Legends and Lore of the Papago and Pima Indian. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Scott, Jay. (1989) Changing Woman. The Desert of Helen Hardin. Northland AZ.
- Shipley, William, trans. (199?) The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim. Berkeley: Heydey Books.
- Smith, Anne M. (1993) Shoshone Tales. Salt Lake City: University of Utah.
- Smith, Anne M. (1992) Ute Tales. Salt Lake City: University of Utah.
- Spencer, Katherine (1947) Reflection of Social Life in the Navajo Origin Myth. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
- Stirling, Matthew W. (1942) Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records. Bur. Am. Ethnol. Bull. 135.
- Tedlock, Dennis (1985) Popul Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life. Simon & Schuster.
- Teit, James (1969) Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia. Kraus Reprint Co.
- Underhill, Ruth (1993 [1938]) Singing for Power: The Song Music of the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona. U. Arizona Pr.
- Witherspoon, Gary. (1977) Language and Art in the Navajo Universe. Univ. of Michigan.