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Voyages and travels of an Indian interpreter and trader, describing the manners and customs of the North American Indians; AN Account Of The Posts Situated ON The River Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, &c. To which is added, a vocabulary of the Chippeway language. Names of Furs and Skins, in English and French. A list of words in the Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawanee, and Esquimeaux tongues, And A Table, Shewing The Analogy between the Algonkin and Chippeway Languages. By J. Long.
Long, J. (John), Indian trader.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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The history of the life and sufferings of Henry Grace, of Basingstoke in the county of Southampton. Being a narrative of the hardships he underwent during several years captivity among the savages in North America, and of the Cruelties they practise to their unhappy Prisoners. In which is introduced An Account of the several Customs and Manners of the different Nations of Indians; as well as a compendious Description of the Soil, Produce and various Animals of those Parts. Written by himself.
Grace, Henry, approximately 1730-Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The history of North America. Containing, a review of the customs and manners of the original inhabitants; the first settlement of the British colonies, their rise and progress, from the earliest period to the time of their becoming united, free and independent states. B the Rev. Mr. Cooper. Embellished with copper-plate cuts.
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793.Date: 1789- Books
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Some account of the North-America Indians; [sic]. Their Genius, Characters, Customs, and Dispositions, towards the French and English Nations. To which are added, Indian Miscellanies, viz. 1. The Speech of a Creek-Indian against the immoderate Use of Spirituous Liquors; delivered in a National Assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late War. 2. A Letter from Yariza, an Indian Maid of the Royal Line of the Mohawks, to the principal Ladies of New-York. 3. Indian Songs of Peace. 4. An American Fable. Collected by a learned and ingenious Gentleman in the Province of Pensylvania. [sic].
Creek-Indian.Date: [1754]- Books
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Native American communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960 : a study of tradition and change / Robert E. Bieder.
Bieder, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1938-Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
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Tradition & change on the Northwest Coast : the Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth, southern Kwakiutl, and Nuxalk / Ruth Kirk.
Kirk, Ruth, 1925-2018Date: [1986], ©1986- Books
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A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmorland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs and manners of the aborigines of North-America.
Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Oglala women : myth, ritual, and reality / Marla N. Powers.
Powers, Marla NDate: 1988, ©1986- Books
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Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada; who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character o the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. Copy right secured.
Rusoe D'Eres, Charles Dennis, 1761-Date: 1800- Books
Reclaiming two-spirits : sexuality, spiritual renewal, & sovereignty in Native America / Gregory D. Smithers ; foreword by Raven E. Heavy Runner.
Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-Date: [2022]- Books
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Powhatan's mantle : Indians in the colonial Southeast / edited & with an introduction by Gregory A. Waselkov, Peter H. Wood, and Tom Hatley.
Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
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Shared symbols, contested meanings : Gros Ventre culture and history, 1778-1984 / Loretta Fowler.
Fowler, Loretta, 1944-Date: 1987- Books
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: 1797- Books
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Three years travels, through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia. Containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations. Together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of chemistry in the College of Philadelphia. [Four lines from Malebranche in French]
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: [1774]- Books
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Three years travels, through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains, ou mémoires intéressants pour servir à l'histoire de l'espece humaine. Par Mr. De P***. Avec une dissertation sur L'Amérique & les Américains, par Don Pernety. Tome I.
Pauw, Cornelius, 1739-1799.Date: M.D.CC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Some considerations on the present state of affairs. Wherein the defenceless situation of Great-Britain, is pointed out, and an easy rational and just scheme for it's security, at this dangerous crisis; proposed, in a militia, formed on an equal Plan, that can neither be oppressive to the Poor, nor offensive to the Rich, as practised by some of his Majesty's Colonies abroad; interspersed with an account of the first settlement of the province of Pensylvania, the Origin of the Quarrel, between some of the Traders there, and the Indians; and an impartial Representation of the Debates betwixt the Governor and Assembly, in relation to that Quarrel. Likewise a short description of the air, soil, produce, &c. of the several Colonies on the Continent of North America. The whole concluded with a summary detail of the Education, Manners, and Religion of the Indians, not heretofore mention'd. Written by Peter Williamson, Author of the French and Indian Cruelty.
Williamson, Peter, 1730-1799.Date: 1758- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HEA-HEY
Date: 1765-1910Reference: MS.8854- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL