Indigenous Peoples: North America

This collection, from Thomas D. Clark's Travels in the Old South, covers the years 1737-1896. Clark, in the editor's preface to Volume I, remarks, "Almost all historians who have tried to discover the past as it actually was or to gain a feeling of being at home in the precise contemporary scene, have used travel accounts for sources." For students of the history of individual Southern states, agriculture and industry, social life and customs, folklore and any other aspect of southern tradition, this is an indispensable research tool.

George Reid Millar DSO MC (19 September 1910 – 15 January 2005) was a Scottish journalist, soldier, author and farmer. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in early 1944 for escaping from Germany while a prisoner of war and making it back to England, which he wrote about in his 1946 book Horned Pigeon. Millar was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the French Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes for his service as an SOE officer in France in 1944. He recorded his experiences fighting behind the lines with the local Resistance in his 1945 book Maquis; this book, his most well-known, belongs with others written by British servicemen who fought behind enemy lines including Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss, Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean and Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence.

Benjamin Drake was an early settler in Cincinnati and a newspaper editor, who also wrote books on Cincinnati, Black Hawk and William Henry Harrison. Although the publication date of this book was 1853, the author had finished the book in 1841 and conducted his research in the 1820s and 1830s, interviewing a number of people who were personally acquainted with both Tecumseh and the Prophet. The anecdotes he heard are included here.

Discusses the removals of John G. Gasmann from the Crow Creek Agency, Dakota, and Dr. W.V. Coffin from the Forest Grove United States Indian Training School, Oregon.

The two rolls of this microfilm publication reproduce correspondence of the Eastern Division relating to the removal of the Cherokees from the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama to present-day eastern Oklahoma. Most of the correspondence was received or sent by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, commanding officer of the Eastern Division, and his immediate staff between April and December 1838. Also present are a few pieces of May 1836-March 1837 correspondence that predate Scott's arrival in Cherokee country. The records are part of Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920, Record Group (RG) 393.

Observations of Eskimos during stay at Godthab, west Greenland, in winter of 1888-1889 after crossing of Greenland ice sheet. Translation of Norwegian original Eskimoliv published in 1891.

Old Indian Legends is a collection of Dakota legends, retold by the 19th and early 20th-century Dakota author Zitkála-Šá. The collection was compiled in 1901 when Zitkála-Šá returned to her birthplace in the Yankton reservation to take care of her mother, after she had spent several years in the assimilationist Indian residential school system, both as a student and as an educator. While taking care of her mother, she gathered traditional tales from Dakota storytellers which were retold in English for Old Indian Legends. The stories revolve around various spirits and heroes from Dakota myth, especially Iktomi, a shapeshifting spider trickster.

A collection of Native American myths and legends, interweaving the historical backgrounds of several Indian cultures with magical stories.