Native American Resources
Collections and Projects
- Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts
- George
Catlin Indian Paintings Collection from the Smithsonian American Art
Museum
George Catlin (1796-1872) abandoned a law career to pursue his interests in art. In 1830 he met William Clark in Saint Louis and with him visited tribes living near the Mississippi River, and in 1832 he traveled up the Missouri River to Fort Union, North Dakota. His portraits of the Mandans, with whom he stayed in 1832, are today among his best-known works. By 1834, after crossing the southern plains to paint the Comanche, Catlin had visited more western tribes than had any other artist of his day. This image collection contains over 400 portraits of Native Americans and cultural documentation landscapes from the exhibition (and accompanying catalog) "George Catlin and his Indian Gallery," organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2002. Of particular note is the authoritative identification of the tribal affiliations of the portrait subjects.
Individual Authors
- A
Pipe Of Oaten Straw (1902)
- The
Conversion of Ah Lew Sing (October 1897) [ill.]
- The
Song of the Hills: Being the Song of a Man and a Woman Who Might Have
Loved (October 1911)
- Inyo
(1899)
- "The
Gods of the Saxon" (1900)
- The
Woman at Eighteen-Mile (25 Sept. 1909) [ill.]
- The
Land of Little Rain (1903) [ill.]
- The
Song of the Friend (January 1912)
- Agua
Dulce (28 August 1909)
- Medicine
Songs (1914) [ill.]
- Indian
Songs (1911)
- Art
Influence in the West (1915) [ill.]
- Medicine
Song: To Be Sung in Time of Evil Fortune (September 1911)
- The
Wooing of the Señorita (March 1897)
- The
Deer-star (A Paiute Legend). (February, 1901) [ill.]
- "A
Woman of Genius" by Mary Austin [review] (1913)
- Mary
Austin [review] (1912) [ill.]
- "The
Realism of Mary Austin" and "A New Definition of Genius" [review]
(1912)
- Fenimore
Cooper's Libels on America and Americans [review] (1840)
- The
Spy, Volume 1 (1821)
- Preface
to the Water Witch (1830)
- The
Prairie, Volume 1 (1827)
- The
Pilot, volume 1 (1823)
- The
Deerslayer, volume 2 (1841)
- Jack
Tier, Volume 2 (1848)
- The
Water-Witch, Volume 1 (1831)
- Preface
and initial pages of The Pathfinder (1840)
- The
Deerslayer; or, The First Warpath . . . Volume 1 (1841)
- Precaution,
volume 2 (1820)
- The
Last of the Mohicans (1826)
- Jack
Tier, Volume 1 (1848)
- The
Pilot, volume 2 (1823)
- The
Pioneers, Volume 1 (1823)
- Wyandotte;
or, the Hutted Knoll . . . Volume 1 (1843)
- The
Spy, Volume 2 (1821)
- The
Prairie, Volume 2 (1827)
- Wyandotte;
or, the Hutted Knoll . . . Volume 2 (1843)
- The
Last of the Mohicans, Volume 2 (1826)
- The
Water-Witch, Volume 2 (1831)
- The
Pioneers, Volume 2 (1823)
- The
Last of the Mohicans, Volume 1 (1826)
- Precaution,
Volume 1 (1820)
- Indian
Boyhood (1902)
- The
Madness of Bald Eagle (1905)
- Old
Indian Days (1907) [ill.]
- The
Soul of the Indian (1911) [ill.]
- Little
Friend Coyote (1901) [ill.]
- The
Wild Indian (1899)
- The
Indian on the Reservation (1899)
- The
Medicine Grizzly Bear (1901) [ill.]
- The
Girl Who Was the Ring. (1901) [ill.]
- The
Book of Stones and Lilies (1921)
- In
a Time of Dearth (1916)
- The
Blue Scarf (1914)
- Many
Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians (1920)
- Songs
of the Pueblo Indians (1920)
- The
Paper Windmill (December 1915) [ill.]
- Little
Wolf (1901) [ill.]
- A
Prairie Borgia (1903)
- "The
Fading of Shadow Flower" (1903)
- The
Spirit of Crow Butte (November 1901) [ill.]
- To
a Cat (February 1905)
- The
Smile of God (January, 1902)
- "The
Triumph of Seha" (1901) [ill.]
- The
Singing of the Frogs (1901)
- The
Stranger at the Gate (1912)
- The
End of the Dream (1905) [ill.]
- When
the Snows Drift (1901) [ill.]
- The
Last Thunder Song (1904)
- The
Biologist's Quest (July 1901)
- The
Man Who Interfered (October 1915)
- Young
Henry and the Old Man (June 1908)
- The
Problem of Old Harjo (April 1907)
- The
Apples of Hesperides, Kansas (March 1914)
- "Remaining
Causes of Indian Discontent" (March 1, 1907)
- "Friends
of the Indian." (1905)
- Indian
Superstitions and Legends. (1898)
- An
Indian on the Problems of His Race [a machine-readable transcription]
(1895) [ill.]
- The
Future of the Red Man (August 1897)
- Simon
Pokagon on Naming the Indians (September 1897) [ill.]
- Old
Indian Legends (1901) [ill.]
- Impressions
of an Indian Childhood (1900)
- The
Trial Path (October 1901) [ill.]
- The
Soft-Hearted Sioux (1901) [ill.]
- A
Warrior's Daughter (1902) [ill.]
Miscellaneous Texts and Historical Documents
-
Abbott, Jacob, Aboriginal America , (1860) [ill.]
- Alexander, Hartley, American
Indian Myth Poems , (1922)
- Anonymous, The
Indian of Commerce , (18 April 1901)
- Anonymous, Three
Noted Chiefs of the Sioux , (1890)
- Austin review: Steffens,
Lincoln, 1866-1936, Mary
Austin, (1911) [ill.]
- Brooks, Elbridge Streeter,
1846-1902., Historic
girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
, (1891) [ill.]
- Brooks, Elbridge Streeter,
1846-1902., The
True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral , (1892)
[ill.]
- Brooks, Noah, First
Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and
Clark in 1804-5-6 , (1901) [ill.]
- Calamity Jane (pseud.
Marthy Cannary Burk), The
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane , (1896)
- Carleton, S., The
Tall Man , (1907)
- Carleton, S., The
Lame Priest , (1901)
- Carleton, S., The
Whale , (1906)
- Cary, Elisabeth Luther, Recent
Writings By American Indians , (1902) [ill.]
- Cheney, John Vance, How
Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs , (January 1885)
- Colyer, Vincent, Notes
Among the Indians , (September and October 1869)
- Cook, Frederick A., The
Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego, (March 1900) [ill.]
- Dawes, Henry L., "The
Indian Territory." , (1900)
- Dawes, Henry L., Have
We Failed with the Indian? , (1899)
- DeCora, Angel, Angel
DeCora--An Autobiography , (1911)
- Edwardy, William M., The
Navajo Indians , (1890)
- Fiske, John, Myths
and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative
Mythology , (1872)
- Flower, B. O., "An
Interesting Representative of a Vanishing Race." , (July, 1896) [ill.]
- Foreman, Grant, The
Last of the Five Tribes , (1907)
- Garland, Hamlin, Two
Stories of Oklahoma , (1904)
- Garland, Hamlin, Drifting
Crane , (31 May 1890)
- H. H., The
Wards of the United States Government , (1880)
- Hagar, Albert D., Ancient
Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior , (1865)
- Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909,
The
Brick Moon, and Other Stories , (1899)
- Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909,
The
life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other
documents of his
time. , (1891) [ill.]
- Hart, Albert Bushnell
with Blanche E. Hazard, Colonial
Children , (1902) [ill.]
- Hart, Albert Bushnell
with Mabel Hill, Camps
and Firesides of the Revolution , (1902) [ill.]
- Harvey, Charles M., The
Red Man's Last Roll-Call , (1906)
- Harvey, Charles M., "The
Dime Novel in American Life" , (1907)
- Hawthorne, Julian, The
Golden Fleece , (1896) [ill.]
- Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka
(Angel De Cora), "The
Sick Child" , (1899)
- Hinook-Mahiwi-Kilinaka
(Angel de Cora), Gray
Wolf's Daughter., (1899) [ill.]
- Howard, General O. O., The
True Story of the Wallowa Campaign , (1879)
- Johnson, E. Pauline, 1861-1913.,
Legends
of Vancouver , (1911)
- Jones, William, In
the Name of His Ancestor , (December 1899)
- King, Captain Charles, Custer's
Last Battle , (1890)
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936,
American
Notes , (1889-1898) [ill.]
- La Flesche, Francis, The
Story of a Vision , (1901)
- La Flesche, Francis, "An
Indian Allotment." , (1900) [ill.]
- Linderman, Frank B., Indian
Why Stories , (1915) [ill.]
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
1807-1882, Hiawatha;
a poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by John Rea Neill. ,
(1856) [ill.]
- Marquis, Don, Dreams
and Dust , (1915)
- Matthews, Washington, Noqoìlpi,
the Gambler: A Navajo Myth , (1889) [ill.]
- Maus, Marion P., The
New Indian Messiah , (1890)
- McLaughlin, Marie L., Myths
and Legends of the Sioux, (1916) [ill.]
- Mooney, James, The
Jicarilla Genesis , (1898) [ill.]
- Naidu, Sarojini, The
Golden Threshold , (1916)
- Opler, Morris; Kenoi, Sam, A
Chiricahua Apache`s Account of the Geronimo Campaign of 1886 , (1938)
[ill.]
- Oyen, Henry, "The
Last Protest: A Story of Montana." , (1904)
- Oyen, Henry, The
Man Who Would Not Be Saved , (1902)
- Pope, J. Worden, "The
North American Indian--The Disappearance of the Race A Popular Fallacy"
, (November, 1896)
- Pullen, Clarence, The
Pueblo of Acoma , (1890)
- Russell, Frank, An
Apache Medicine Dance , (December, 1898) [ill.]
- Russell, Frank, Myths
of the Jicarilla Apache , (1898)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Poganuc
People: Their Loves and Lives , (1878) [ill.]
- Terry, Frank, Naming
the Indians , (March 1897) [ill.]
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn , (1884) [ill.]
- Up de Graff, Fritz W., Head
Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure / Fritz
W. Up de Graff , (1923) [ill.]
- Young Joseph, An
Indian's Views of Indian Affairs , (1879)