Native Americans -- 202 classic books on CD

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

For other CDs of ours (nearly 200 different titles) check my eBay store 

You can see the complete table of contents below. Use the Find function in your browser to search for a particular book title.

For a free sample ebook to get a sense of what it is like to read a book on your computer screen, send email to seltzer@samizdat.com and request our "ebook of the week".

What do we mean by "plain text books"? Many people ask that question --

Plain text (also known as ASCII) is the simplest form of text prepared for use on a computer -- without any of the formatting that is usually specific to a specific program.

Using a plain text book is the same as reading any plain text file on your computer. You can open a plain text document with your Web browser or with a word processor like Word. Then you can use the power of that specific application to modify how the text appears to suit your individual preferences.

1) It's easy to curl up with a laptop (just a matter of habit).

2) You can set the type whatever size you want, so there's less eye strain than with a paper book (unless you are set up with extraordinary glare conditions). I need to use reading glasses to read a paper book, but don't to read one on my computer.

3) I actually find that I read about 50% faster this way. 4) If you travel long distances or frequently, it's a lot easier to take along a few CDs than boxes full of printed books.

All in all, it's a matter of personal taste and habit. If you think this might be for you, give it a try.

Table of Contents

• General
• The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919
• Folk-lore and Legends, North American Indian
• Four American Indians: King Philip, Tecumseh, Pontiac, and Osceola by Edson Whitney and Frances Perry
• The Indian Fairy Book from the Original Legends by Cornelius Mathews
• Indian Story and Song from North America by alice C. Fletcher
• The Myth of Hiawatha and other Oral Lebends, Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians by Henry R. Schoolcraft, 1856
• The North American Indian edited by Frederick Webb Hodge
• Short Sketches from Oldest America by John B. Driggs
• Thirty Indian Legends by margaret Bemister, 1917
• Traditions of the North American Indians by James Ahearn Jones
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Eastern US and Canada
• An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha or Red Jacket and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard
• Algonquin Indian Tales, collected by Egerton Young, 1903
• Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Leland
• Conversion des Sauvages qui ont este Baptise en la Nouvelle France cette annee 1610 [in French]
• Dangers on the Ice Off the Coast of Labrador, with some interesting particulars respecting the natives of the country
• La Detaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois par le Sagamos, 1607 [in French]
• First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island by William Wallace Tooker
• Hochelagans and Mohawks, a link in Iroquois history by W.D. Lighthall, 1899
• A New Hochlegan Burying-Ground Discovered by W.D. Lighthall, 1898
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
• Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland by Joseph Noad, 1859
• Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois or Six Nations and History of the Tuscarora by Elias Johnson
• About the Iroquois Constitution (short)
• Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years With the Indian Tribes of the American Frontiers, 1812-1842 by Henry Schoolcraft, 1851
• The Princess Pocahantas by Virginia Watson
• A Ramble of 6000 Miles Through the USA by S.A. Ferrall, 1832
• Report of Mr. W.E. Cormack's Journey in Search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland
• Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay D'Espoir [Newfoundland]
• A Sketch of the History of Oneonta [New York] by Dudley M. Campbell, 1883
• Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs), 1917
• The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
• Tecumseh, a Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People by Ethel T. Raymond, 1915
• A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara K. Bayliss
• Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by James Bovell MacKenzie
• The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia in July 1742
• Treaty of Greenville: Wyandots, Delawares, etc. concluded August 3, 1795
• War Chief of the Ottawas, a chronicle of the Pontiac War by Thomas Guthrie Marquis
• War Chief of the Six Naitons, a Chronicle of Joseph Bant by Louis Aubrey Wood, 1915
• Western America and Mexico and South America
• Among the Sioux. a Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas by R.J. Creswell
• Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk by Black Hawk (re: Black Hawk War of 1832)
• Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
• Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell
• Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Poston
• Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes of the US, Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana by C.C. Royce
• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Frederick J. Turner
• Great Indian Chief of the West or Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
• History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
• Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by Alfred Carmichael
• Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity by Galen Clark, 1904
• In Indian Mexico, a narrrative of travel and labor by Frederick Starr
• In the Time that Was [legends of the Chilkats, tribe of Alaskan Indians] translated by J. Frederic Thorne
• Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Gordon
• Mexico, Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, history and Political Conditions by G. Reginald Enock
• Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson
• Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
• Rig Veda Americanus, sacred songs of the ancient Mexicans by Daniel Brinton
• Sequoyah (from Harper's New Monthly) (short)
• Three Years on the Plains, Observations of Indians 1867-1870 by Edmund B. Tuttle
• Unkown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz, volume 1
• The Unwritten Literature of te Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
• What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant, 1849
• Linguistics
• Alaska Indian Dictionary, compiled by Charles A. Lee, 1896
• Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallam and Lummi by George Gibbs, 1863
• Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred Tozzer and Glover Allen, 1910
• The Annals of the Cakchiquels the original text with a translation by Daniel G. Brinton
• Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology by James C. Pilling
• Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas
• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs, 1863
• A French-Onondaga Dictionary from a manuscript of the 17th Century by John Gilmany Shea, 1860
• Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language, translated from an unpublished Spanish Manuscript by Buckingham Smith, 1861
• Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages
• The Maya Chronitcs edited by Daniel G. Brinton
• Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts by Cyrus Thomas
• Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts by Dr. Paul Schellhas
• Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared wtih that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes by Garrick Mallery
• Vocabulary of the Mutsun Language by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1861
• Archaeology and Anthropology
• Aboriginal America  by Jacob Abbott
• Aboriginal American Authors by Daniel Brinton
• Aboriginal American Weaving by Mary Lois Kissell
• Aborigiinal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
• American Hero-Myths: a Study in the Native Religions of the Western
• Ancient Nahuatl Poetry by Daniel Brinton
• Casa Grande Ruin by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mything Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians by James Stevenson
• Contribution to Passmaquoddy Folk-Lore by J. Walter Fewkes
• The Delight Makers [about the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico] by Adolf F. Bandlier
• Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico by Adolph F. Bandlier, 1910
• Eighth Annual Report of the Bureous of Ethnology, 1886-1887 by J.W. Powell
• A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customers of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation, a Study in Anthropology by Horatio Hale
• Houses and House-Life of American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
• Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made by the Bureau of Ethnology During the Field Season of 1881 by William H. Holmes
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuni, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona in 1881 by James Stevenson
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Indian Games, an historical research by Andrew Davis
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880
• Indian Games and Dances, with Native Songs by Alice Fletcher, 1915
• Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico by J.W. Powell
• Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• The Mid[-e]/wiwin or "Grand Medicine society of the Ojibwa by W.J. Hoffman
• The Mound Builders by George Bryce
• The Mound-Builders by W.J. Smyth
• The Mountain Chant: a Navajo Ceremony by Washington Matthews
• Navaho Houses by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Navaho Silversmiths by Washington Matthews
• Navajo Weavers by Washington Matthews
• Omaha Dwellings, Furniture, and Implements by James Owen Dorsey
• On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J.W. Powell
• Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William H. Holmes [html file with illustrations]
• Osage Traditions by J. Owen Dorsey
• Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States by William Henry Holmes
• Prehistoric Textile Fabrics of the United Stated, Derived from Impressions on Pottery by William H. Holmes
• The Problem of Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas
• Religious Life of the Zuni Chlid by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
• Repair of the Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
• The Seminole Indians of Florida by Clay MacCauley
• Siouan Indians by W.J. McGee, 1897
• Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey, 1897
• Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J.W. Powell
• A Study of Pueblo Architecture: usayan an dCibola by Victor Mindeleff
• a Study of Pueblo Pottery by Frank Hamilton Cushing
• A Study of the Textile Art in It Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament by William H. Holmes
• Throwing-Sticks in the National Museum
• Wyandot Government, a Sthor Study of Tribal Society by J.W. Powell
• Zuni Fetiches by Frank Hamlton Cushing
• Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939)
• Indian Boyhood
• Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
• Old Indian Days
• The Soul of the Indian, an Interpretation
• Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) (1876-1938)
• American Indian Stories
• Old Indian Legends
• Exploration Expeditions amd Pioneer Experiences in Indian country
• Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
• The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers into Virginia, The Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky 1740-1790, by Archibald Henderson
• American Pioneers and Patriots: David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John Abbott
• The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California by J.C. Fremont, 1852
• Journals of Lewis and Clark
• The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson by De Witt C. Peters
• The Life of Kit Carson by Edward Ellis
• The Life [autobiography] of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, 1879
• The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, interspersed with notice of the celebrated Indian chief Tecumseh by "Ferdinand Brock Tripper, 1845
• Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona by Sylvester Mowry
• Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the northwest in the autumn of 1856 by C.C. Andrews
• Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America inthe years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First Americna Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere, 1854
• Old Fort Snelling 1818-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen
• Old Mackinaw or the Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings by W.P. Strickland
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Jr.
• Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston
• Thiry-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by William F. Drannan
• Three Score Years and Ten, Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota and other Parts of the West by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, 1888
• Fiction and Poetry
• At War with Pontiac or the Totem of the Bear, a Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe
• The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas Allibone Janvier
• Big and Little Sisters, a Story of an Indian Mission School by Theodora R. Jessess
• Captured by the Navajos by Captain Charles A. Curtis
• Daughter of the Chieftain. The Story of an Indian Girl by Edward S. Ellis
• Les Dernier Iroquois by Emile Chevalier [in French]
• The Devil's Own, a Romance of the Black Hawk War by Randall Parrish
• Dick Onslow or the Adventures of Dick Onslow among the Redskins by W.H.G. Kingston
• In the Heart of the Rockies by G.A. Henty
• In the Wilds of Florida by W.H.G. Kingston
• Oonomoo the Huron by Edward S. Ellis
• On the Trail of Pontiac or the Pioneer Boys of the Ohio by Edward Stratemeyer
• Pocahontas,  poem, by Virginia Carter Castleman
• Po-no-kah, an Indian Tale of long ago by Mary Mapes Dodge, 1903
• The Prairie Chief by R.M. Ballantyne
• Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Red Man's Revenge by R.M. Ballantyne
• The Rising of the Red Man: a romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion by John Macke
• The Song of Hiawatha, poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Story of Red Feather by Edward Ellis
• Talking Leaves, an Indian Story by William O. Stoddard
• The Trapper's Son by W.H.G. Kingston
• The Way of an Indian by Frederic Remington
• With Axe and Rifle or the Western Pioneers by W.H.G. Kingston
• Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919)
• The Border Watch
• Free Rangers
• Keepers of the Trail
• Last of the Chiefs, a Story of the Great Sioux War
• Masters of the Peaks
• Scouts of the Valley
• The Young Trailers, a Story of Early Kentucky
• B.M. Bower
• Good Indian
• Heritage of the Sioux
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
• The Deerslayer (1841)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
• The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1840)
• The Pioneers (1823)
• The Prairie (1826)
• Wyandotte (1843)
• Charles King
• An Apache Princess, a Tale of the Indian Frontier'
• A Daughter of the Sioux, a Tale of the American Frontier
• The Deserter
• Foes in Ambush
• From the Ranks
• Lanier of the Cavalry or a Week's Arrest
• Marion's Faith
• Sunset Pass or Running the Guantlet Through Apache Land
• Under Fire
• Warrior Gap, a Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68

Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!