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Reference Books: Good Places to Begin Research
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and Research Guides including Lummi or Nooksack Tribes
- American Indian women : a guide to research / Bataille, Gretchen M., 1944-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.W8 B369 1991
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A compilation of over 1500 annotated citations by and about American Indian Women, arranged in the following chapters: Bibliographies and Reference Works; Ethnographies, Cultural History, and Social Roles; Politics and Law; Health, Education, and Employment; Visual and Performing Arts; Literature and Criticism; Autobiography, Biography, and Interviews. Author and subject index.
- Native America in the twentieth century : an encyclopedia
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E76.2 .N36 1994
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"Lummi Tribe" and "Nooksack" entries cover twentieth century history and culture. Related entries are found under "Fishing and Hunting Rights" and "Washington State Tribes."
- Nooksack Collection of the Whatcom County Library System
A bibliographic list of resources relating to the Nooksack Tribe held by the Whatcom County Library system at the Deming Library.
- Ethnographic bibliography of North America / Martin, M. Marlene.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E77 .M92 1990
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Cites sources of information about North American Indians.
- Native peoples of the Northwest : a traveler's guide to land, art, and culture / Halliday, Jan.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E78.N78 H275 2000
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- The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E77 .G15 1998
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Volume four covers California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Pacific Islands.
- Encyclopedia of world cultures / Ember, Melvin et al. (editors)
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN307 .E53 1991 Suppl. 2002
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures is considered the master work for current encyclopedia articles about living cultures. Volume1: North America contains information about the Lummi and Nooksact Tribes listed under Klallam.
- Statistical record of Native North Americans
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.P76 S73 1995
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This is a source of statistical data on the indigenous population of North America compiled from federal and state agencies, tribal governments, associations, and other organizations, much of which is not available in published format. The Nooksack and Lummi tribes are included.
Locating Books Using the Online Catalog
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Western Libraries Catalog uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. The library assigns subject headings to all books/libraries listed in the online catalog. The following are selected subject headings relating to Lummi/Nooksack topics:
Note: The terms Coast Salish Indians, Lummi Indians, Lummi Tribe, Nooksack Indians, Salish Indians and Salishan Indians are all broken down by sub-divisions, many of which are listed above.
Anthropology
- Emerging from the mist: studies in Northwest Coast Culture history
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books
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- Encyclopedia of American Indian costume / Paterek, Josephine.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.C8 P37 1994
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This book provides descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of North American Indian tribes. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear hair styles, headgear accessories, jewelry armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references.
- Brushed by Cedar, Living by the River: Coast Salish Figures of Power
This is an experimental ethnography of the coast Salish cultures of coastal Washington State and British Columbia, Canada. Examined are legends and their storytellers; domestic violence; longhouse ceremonies; the importance and power of place, and disputes over fishing rights.
- Indian Primitive
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N78 A5
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Photographs of Northwest Coast Indian life, including information on their lifestyle, traditions, and customs.
- People of the Totem: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books-Oversize E78.N78 B36
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Discusses the traditions, customs, and totem poles of the Northwest Coast Indians.
Archaeology
- Archaeological Investigations of the Lummi Indian Reservation, Washington
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books
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- Archaeological investigations on Portage Island, Whatcom County, Washington
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books
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- Archaeological survey and analysis of prehistoric settlement on the lower Lummi River, Whatcom County, Washington
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Art
- Arts of the raven: masterworks by the northwest coast Indian
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N78 D8
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Photographs from an exhibition in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Canadian Confederation. Each section of the exhibition is introduced with a written commentary of the Northwest Coast Indian art pieces.
- From the land of the totem poles : the Northwest Coast Indian art collection at the American Museum of Natural History
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books-Oversize E78.N78 A45 1988
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Includes biographies of early anthropologists, giving accounts of Indian rites and rituals they discovered. Lavishly illustrated with examples of shaman’s masks and charms, canoes, and household objects as well as the Totem Pole. Text places museum artifacts in their cultural context and explains their use.
- Indian baskets of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books-Oversize E78.N77 L63 1990
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- Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N78 S764
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An analysis of characters and animals represented in Northwest Coast Indian art.
- The Raven's tail
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N78 S36 1987
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This book provides a description of the process of weaving a robe or cloak using the techniques of the Northwest Coast Indians.
- Understanding Northwest coast art : a guide to crests, beings, and symbols / Shearar, Cheryl.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E78.N78 S446 2000
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Economics
- Tiller's guide to Indian country : economic profiles of American Indian reservations / Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E93 .T55 1996
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Education
- An introduction to Lummi education : a resource guide
• Location: Wilson 4E -Books-Oversize LD5778.8 .C47
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- Schooling of the Lummi Indians between 1855-1956
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E99.L95 N85
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Environmental Issues
- An ecological perspective of the intergroup relations of an inland Coast Salish group: The Nooksack peoples
• Location: Wilson 4E -Books-Oversize LD5778.9 .R348
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This study examines the relationship of a groups (Nooksack Indians) ecological adaptations to its role within the social web of the intergroup network of a particular gegional social system. (Author abstract)
- Field study of Nooksack Indians for Dr. Jim Newman / by Diane Gruenstein
• Location: Wilson 4W -Books QH540.25 .G7838
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- Indians, fire, and the land in the Pacific Northwest
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N77 I53 1999
Ethnobotany
- Native American ethnobotany / Moerman, Daniel E.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.B7 M66 1998
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- Profiles of Northwest plants : food uses, medicinal uses, legends / Robinson, Peggy.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK98.5.U6 R62 1979
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- Earth medicine--earth foods;;plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians / Weiner, Michael A.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.M4 W4
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Folklore and Mythology
- Dictionary of Native American mythology / Gill, Sam D., 1943-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.R3 G46 1992
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- Native American folklore, 1879-1979 : an annotated bibliography / Clements, William M., 1945-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.F6 C6 1984
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Northwest Coast Indians are covered in Chapter 9. Includes a section on general works and 22 different tribes
- Northwest anthropological research notes
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Riley, Carroll L. "The Story of Skalaxt, a Lummi Training Myth." Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, volume 21, 1987, pp. 141-148.
The story of the Lummi Indian culture hero Skalaxt told and described with its mythological, instructional, and historical elements.
Games
- Coast Salish Gambling Games
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E99.S21 M37 1984
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An examination of the histories and customs of Coast Salish gambling games including game structure and attending supernatural affiliations.
- Kwakiutl string figures
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books GN2 .A27 v.71
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This scholarly book contains the directions for creating and drawings of 112 string figures. Includes numerous maps, charts, tables, and comparisons with other cultures where string figures exist. Extensive bibliography.
History
- Howard E. Buswell Papers, 1850-1970
• Location: Ctr.forPacific NW Studies Archives Bldg. 225
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Howard E. Buswell, a local historian of the Bellingham and Whatcom County area, documented the social and economic life of the lower Nooksack Valley from the time of first contact between settlers and Native Americans through the early decades of the twentieth century. The collection includes pamphlets, photographs, cartographic records, journals, manuscripts, historical reference works, newspapers, microfilm, and audio-tapes. Particularly well represented are materials relating to the Lummi Nation. The collection also contains oral history interviews conducted by Buswell, primarily with Native Americans in the 1950s, and recorded on open-reel tapes. Several of the interviews are transcribed and the tapes are duplicated on cassette and available for research use. The collection also contains private, business and legal records generated by Marietta storeowner Bernard N. McDonough. The extensive photograph series includes over fifteen hundred images on various topics including fishing, logging, road construction, schools, Whatcom county pioneers, Native Americans, shipyards, and the Alaskan gold rush. This collection also includes regional maps, numerous plat maps relating to the Pacific Northwest, Whatcom County and Bellingham, fishtrap location maps and nautical maps.
- Indian Slavery in the Pacific Northwest
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E78.N78 R83 1993
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This book incorporates material from all known reports about Indian slavery in the Pacific Northwest. Indexed are references to both the Lummi and Nooksack tribes.
- To fish in common : the ethnohistory of Lummi Indian salmon fishing
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E99.L95 B68 2000
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Language
- Alphabetical vocabularies of the Clallam and Lummi / Gibbs, George, 1815-1873.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM895 .G5 1970
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This 1863 reprint includes a vocabulary dictionary (English-Clallam), and a local nomenclature listing (Lummi-English) of the Lummi Tribe.
- Chinook; a history and dictionary of the Northwest coast trade jargon.;The centuries-old trade language of the Indians of the Pacific. A history of its origin and its adoption and use by the traders, trappers, pioneers and early settlers of the Northwest / Thomas, Edward Harper, b. 1868.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM846 .T45 1970
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- Dictionary of Puget Salish / Hess, Thom.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM2263 .H4
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A collection of Puget Salish vocabulary.
- Lushootseed dictionary / Bates, Dawn.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM2263 .B37 1994
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- North American Indian language materials, 1890-1965 : an annotated bibliography of monographic works / Evans, G. Edward, 1937-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM206 .E9
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Law and Legislation
- The Duwamish, Lummi, Whidby [sic] Island, Skagit, Upper Skagit, Swinomish, Kikiallus, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Stillaguamish, Suquamish, Samish, Puyallup, Squaxin, Skokomish, Upper Chehalis, Muckleshoot, Nooksack, Chinook and San Juan Islands tribes of Indi
• Location: SpecColl - Northwest Coll
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Contents of this 5 volume set: v. 1-3. Consolidated claims and petitions ; Evidence for plaintiff and defendant -- v. 4. Request for findings ; Index to the record ; Brief of claimants -- v. 5. Objections to findings of fact requested by plaintiffs ; Request for findings of fact ; Claims under Treaty of Medicine Creek ; Claims under Treaty of Point Elliott ; Claims under Treaty of Point-No-Point ; Claims of the nontreaty tribes ; Set-offs or counterclaims including gratuities -- v. 6. Set-offs or countercliams including gratuities (cont.) ; Claimants objections to findings of fact requested by the defendant.
- History of Lummi legal action against the United States / Nugent, Ann (Ann V.)
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference KF8228.L95 N83
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- North American Indian language materials, 1890-1965 : an annotated bibliography of monographic works / Evans, G. Edward, 1937-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM206 .E9
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An annotated bibliography of dictionaries, primers, and readers of Indian language materials from 1890-1965.
- Dictionary of Native American literature
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PM155 .D53 1994
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Literature: By or About Lummi or Nooksack Indians
- Love quest : what a man will do for a woman
• Location: Wilson 3W -Books PS3552.A773 L68 1994
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Lummi Indians - Fiction
- Power quest : the journey into manhood
• Location: Wilson 3W -Books PS3552.A773 P69 1990
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Lummi Indians - Fiction
- Spirit quest
• Location: Wilson 3W -Books PS3552.A773 S65 1990
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Lummi Indians - Fiction
Politics and Government
- Native Americans and political participation : a reference handbook / Jerry D. Stubben.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.T77 S78 2006
- Watershed negotiations in the Nooksack River Basin : a comparative evaluation with a tribal perspective
• Location: Wilson 4E -Books-Oversize LD5778.9 .D6126
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“The Nooksack Indian Tribe negotiated an agreement with the Tenaska Corporation in 1992 to mitigate the siting of a cogeneration plant at Cherry Point in Whatcom County. The terms of the settlement and the process of negotiation are compared with the watershed management committee process, begun in Whatcom County in 1987…Some of the history of the Nooksack Tribe and the Nooksack River is given, and the tribe’s legal position in relation to federal, state, and local governments is described.” - - - author
Religion
- Coast Salish spirit dancing : the survival of an ancestral religion
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- Dictionary of Native American mythology / Gill, Sam D., 1943-
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.R3 G46 1992
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- Encyclopedia of Native American shamanism : sacred ceremonies of North America / Lyon, William S., Ph. D.
• Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.M4 L98 1998
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- The persistence of aboriginal beliefs and practices among the Nooksack Coast Salish
• Location: Haggard 3 -Books E99.S2 A45
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Social Issues
- Child welfare assessment : a native American perspective
• Location: Wilson 4E -Books-Oversize LD5778.9 .C668
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This Western Master’s Thesis documents a study based on a questionnaire examining the attitudes of 19 Lummi nation members toward child welfare services, the Indian-Child Welfare Act, and family intervention.
- A study of the Nooksack and Upper Skagit inter-tribal early childhood home-base program : culturally relevant recommendations for program development
• Location: Wilson 4E -Books-Oversize LD5778.9 .N95
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Written as a program development guide for the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Inter-Tribal Home-Base Program, this study provides background information on the Nooksack and Upper Skagit cultures and examines literature relevant to Native American Home-Base programming.
Locating Articles: Indexes and Databases
- America: History and Life / ABC-Clio
• Dates covered: 1964-current
A bibliographic database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews. 6 Simultaneous Users.
- Anthropology Plus
• Dates covered: 1900-current
Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK), providing international indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works from the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, material culture, folklore and interdisciplinary studies.
- Bellingham Herald (NewsBank)
• Dates covered: 2002-current
Newsbank provides complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Site License.
- EBSCO (All Databases)
EBSCO (All Databases) is a combination of Academic Search Complete (a scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 10,000 journals, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals) and Business Source Complete (a full-text index to journals in business, management, marketing, etc.)
- ERIC - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Dates covered: 1966-current
ERIC is the largest education database in the world providing indexing and abstracts of all types of materials including journal articles, government documents, books, dissertations, and unpublished materials such as curriculum guides, research reports and conference papers in education and related topics in the social sciences. Many ERIC documents published between 1993 and 2004 are now available online full text. Most ERIC documents published from 1966-1993 are available in the ERIC Microfiche collection on Wilson 2 West. Site License.
- Ethnic Newswatch and ENW: a History
• Dates covered: 1990-current
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990. Included is Ethnic NewsWatch: a History, with retrospective coverage from 1960-1989. 2 Simultaneous Users.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• Dates covered: 1973-current
LLBA indexes and abstracts journal articles, book chapters and dissertations in all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Site License.
- MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
• Dates covered: 1926-current
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database covers literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, journalism, communications, film, media, and theater and indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and bibliographies from 1926 to the current year. 3 Simultaneous Users.
- Sociological Abstracts
• Location: HM1 .S67 (Wilson 1 East)
• Dates covered: 1963-current
Provides indexing with abstracts of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines. Available in print and online. Online includes Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning, Policy, and Development Abstracts (SOPODA). Site License.
Web Sites
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (Library of Congress, American Memory Collection)
"This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. The materials are drawn from the extensive collections of the University of Washington Libraries, the Cheney Cowles Museum/Eastern Washington State Historical Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle."
- Brian Thom's Coast Salish Home Page
An outline review of a bibliographic essay-in-progress and other Coast Salish papers and resources created by Brian Thom of McGill University.
- Burke Museum Anthropology Division
"The ethnology department cares for masks, contemporary art, subsistence and cooking equipment, containers, clothing, musical instruments, sculpture, baskets, and weapons made by Pacific Rim peoples. The Northwest Coast collection is the fifth largest in the United States, with approximately 9,400 items." Information pages are included for the following: Northwest Coast Languages, Northwest Coast Stories & Oral Histories, Northwest Totem Poles, Northwest Coast Canoes, Chief Seattle, Northwest Coast Baskets.
- Indian Circle Web Ring
Indian Circle is a ring connecting the Internet web pages of Federally recognized American Indian Tribes.
- Potlatch Economics by Larry Kinley
A condensed version of a speech by Lummi Chairman Larry Kinley presented at the Newberry Library Conference, "Overcoming Economic Dependency" at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Chicago, Illinois, February 18th, 1988. Previously published under the title: Potlatch Economics and Governing Ourselves Fully in Indian Self-Governance: Perspectives on the Political Status of Indian Nations in the United States CWIS Fourth World Papers Series 1989.
- NativeWeb
This is a database of web pages about indigenous cultures. Look under Nations Index for specific tribes.
- Northwest Tribal Indian Oral History Collection
The Collection was described and duplicated by Stacy Rasmus of the Lummi Language and Cultural Department as part of a joint project between the lummi Indian Nation and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. Includes first-hand accounts of rapidly changing cultures and documentation of long-standing traditions.
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