"The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians" by Edwin Robert Walker is a comprehensive exploration of the history, culture, and traditions of the Lenni Lenape people. Walker delves into their social structures, spiritual beliefs, and the impact of European colonization on their way of life. Through meticulous research and engaging narratives, the book sheds light on the resilience of the Lenape as they navigated the challenges posed by external forces while striving to maintain their identity a...

"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo. Contents: History: The North American Indian The Cherokee Nation of Indians The Seminole Indians of Florida The Central Eskimo The Siouan Indians Calendar Histor...

Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. She lived to survive two Indian husbands, the births of eight children, the American Revoluti...

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway people. Shelley Hulan's afterword considers Copway's rhetorical strategies in framing a narrative—she considers it a form of "history, interrupted"—for a non-Indigenous readership.

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. CONTAINING An Account of the Murder of her Father and his Family; her sufferings; her marriage to two Indians; her troubles with her Children; barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars; the life of her last Husband, &c.; and many Historical Facts never before published. Carefull...

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical mistake Indians, modernly disambiguated as the American Indian race, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Red Indians. According to the still-debated New World migration model,...

The Iroquois, also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse," are an association of several tribes of Native Americans in North America. After the Iroquoian-speaking peoples coalesced as distinct tribes, based mostly in present-day central and upstate New York, in the 16th century or earlier they came together in an association known today as the Iroquois League, or the "League of Peace and Power". The original Iroquois L...

Elias Johnson's "History of the Iroquois & Tuscarora Indians" is a meticulously researched narrative that delves into the rich cultural heritage and complex history of two prominent Indigenous tribes in North America. Johnson employs a blend of historical analysis and ethnographic detail, using primary sources and oral traditions to create an engaging account that illuminates the societal structures, customs, and conflicts that shaped the Iroquois and Tuscarora peoples. As a work situated ...

The American Indians is posthumously published work by Henry Schoolcraft. The book is based on Schoolcraft's original notes and manuscripts which are great source of knowledge of Native American culture and tradition and authentic first hand account of south western frontier.

The History of the Five Indian Nations is a first hand account written by Cadwallader Colden. He served as the first colonial representative to the Iroquois Confederacy. Impressions he made during the service resulted in writing this book, the first one on the subject. This book brings the first information regarding the life and customs of indigenous people from the North.

According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."

From the Introduction: "The reader of the following pages, having already seen what has induced me to come forward with an historical account of the Indians, after so many have written on the same subject, will perhaps look for something more extraordinary in this than in other works of the kind which he has seen. Not wishing any one to raise his expectations too high, I shall briefly state that I have not written to excite astonishment, but for the information of those who are desirous of...