Native American Studies Resources The Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a wide range of ethnographic, historical, literary, and other resources relating to Native Americans, including books, serials, pamphlets, newspapers, letters, diaries, documents, photographs, and sound recordings.  Materials are located in several areas of Special Collections, with the largest concentration in the William Wyles Collection (history of the American West).   Additional significant resources are found in the Native American Studies Collection and elsewhere in the UCSB University Libraries.  For details, consult Information Resources for Native American Studies (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/nativeamer/native.html), the library handout Native American Studies Reference Guide, and Pegasus (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/index.html) the UCSB Libraries online catalog.  The Native American section of the Voice of the Shuttle website (http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/minority.html) also provides useful links to relevant resources at other institutions. The following list describes areas with significant Special Collections holdings and gives some representative examples. Art and Artists.  Mainly depictions of Native Americans, by 19th and early 20th century artists, and related scholarly examinations (more recent works relating to Native American art and Native American artists generally are located in the UCSB Arts library). Bodmer, Karl - Karl Bodmer's America; Views of a Vanishing Frontier. [Borg, Carl Oscar] - Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artist of the American West. Catlin, George- Episodes from Life among the Indians ... [Deming, Edwin Willard] - Eight Bears: A Biography of E. W. Deming, 1860-1942. Ewers, John Canfield - Artists of the Old West. Kane, Paul - Paul Kane, the Columbia Wanderer, 1846-7: Sketches and Paintings ... including Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America. McKenney, Thomas - History of Indian Tribes of North America (1832-1843), 3 vols, very rare, with 120 hand-colored lithograph portraits. [Miller, Alfred Jacob] - Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail. Remington, Frederic - The Book of the American Indian (illus.); Frederic Remington's Southwest; The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (illus.); Pony Tracks; Red Men and White (illus.); Remington'sFrontier Sketches; The Way of an Indian. [Russell, Charles M.] - C. M. R.: Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Artist, aBiography; Charles M. Russell: The Frederic G. Renner Collection; Titans of Western Art: Frederick Remington, Charles Russell. Biographies/Autobiographies.  Primarily of 19th century Indian leaders. [Black Elk] - Black Elk Speaks ... The Great Indian Chief of the West); Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (1834). [Crazy Horse] - Crazy Horse and Custer ...; Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas: A Biography. [Geronimo] - The Geronimo Campaign; Trailing Geronimo; The Apache Rock Crumbles .... [Sacagawea] - Sacajawea (Shoshoni woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition). [Sitting Bull] - "I am looking to the North for my life" - Sitting Bull, 1876-1881; Sitting Bull and Gall, the Warrior; The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull; Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux ... . [Tecumseh] - Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet; Tecumseh and His Times; Tecumseh: Vision of Glory. California.  Studies of Native Americans in California and historical overviews with descriptions of Native Americans (including exploration, early settlement, Spanish/Mexican period, Gold Rush, and 19th century American expansion). American Friends Service Committee - Indians of California, Past and Present. An-nik-a-del, the History of the Universe as Told by the Modes-se Indians of California. Beechey, Frederick William - An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-'27. Browne, J. Ross - The Indians of California. Brusa, Betty War - Salinan Indians of California and Their Neighbors. Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton - Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851... Carrico, Richard L. - Strangers in a Stolen Land: American Indians in San Diego 1850-1880.  Cook, Sherburne Friend - The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. Cowan, Robert Ernest - A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930. Eargle, Dolan - The Earth Is Our Mother: A Guide to the Indians of California. Earl, Guy Chaffee - Indian Legends and Songs. Ethnology of the Alta California Indians. Farnham, Thomas Jefferson - Life, Adventures, and Travels in California... (1852). Forbes, Jack D. - Native Americans of California and Nevada. Gifford, Edward Winslow - Californian Indian Nights Entertainments; Stories of the Creation of the World ... Heizer, Robert Fleming - The California Indians: A Source Book; The Destruction of California Indians: A Collection of Documents from the Period 1847 to 1865...; Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579; Languages, Territories, and Names of California Indian Tribes. Howard, Donald M. - Big Sur's Lost Tribe: The Esselen. Hurtado, Albert L. - Indian Survival on the California Frontier. Johnson, John R. - Native Americans on the Central Coast. Judson, Katharine Berry - Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. Kibby, Leo P. - California, the Civil War, and the Indian Problem... Konsag, Ferdinand - Life and Work of the Reverend Ferdinand Konscak, S. J.,1703-1759, an Early Missionary in California. Kroeber, A. L. - Handbook of the Indians of California. Kroeber, Theodora - Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America; The Inland Whale. Latta, Frank Forrest - California Indian Folklore. Lipps, Oscar Hiram - The Case of the California Indians. Longinos Martinez, Jose - California in 1792... Martin, Thomas Salathiel - With Fremont to California and the Southwest 1845-1849. Meighan, Clement Woodward - Indians and California Missions Native Americans on the Central Coast... Phillips, George Harwood - Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849. Reference Bibliographies for Building California Indian Library Collections. Revere, Joseph Warren - A Tour of Duty in California ... (1849). Santos, Robert LeRoy - A Bibliography of Early California and Neighboring Territory through 1846: An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios,Ranchos, and Indians. Thornton, Lawrence [Santa Barbara author] - Ghost Woman (fiction). Wagner, Henry Raup - California Voyages, 1539-1541: Translation of Original Documents. The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs. Wilson, Benjamin Davis - The Indians of Southern California in 1852. Chumash.  Historical, ethnographic, and literary works (UCSB Library's Native American Studies Collection and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History also have extensive Chumash holdings).  Anderson, Eugene N. -The Chumash Indians of Southern California. The Archaeology of Oak Park, Ventura County, California. California's Chumash Indians: A Project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Education Center. Chumash [bible]. Chumash Rock Painting. Cortes, Juan - The Doctrina and Confesionario of Juan Cortes. Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains... December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. Easton [Robert O.] Collection - Contains research files relating to the Chumash, for his Saga of California series of books [SBHC Mss 6].  Grant, Campbell - The Rock Paintings of the Chumash: A Study of a California Indian Culture. Guarino, Marie Donald - The Chumash Indians and Santa Barbara Mission,1786-1843. Harrington, John Peabody [Santa Barbara anthropologist] - Tomol: Chumash Watercraft as Described in the Ethnographic Notes of John P. Harrington; Carobeth Laird (Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington). Heizer, Robert Fleming - Original Accounts of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. Holmes, Marie S. - The Chumash and Their Predecssors. Hudson, Travis - Chumash Indian Games. Hudson, Travis - Crystals in the Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology, and Rock Art. Johnson, John R. - Chumash Indians after Secularization. Kaplan, Kathy Walden - Crow Story: A Legend of the Chumash. Landberg, Leif C. W. - The Chumash Indians of Southern California. Librado, Fernando - Eye of the Flute: Chumash Traditional History and Ritual (account of a Chumash Indian). McLendon, Sally - Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains. Native Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay. Nidever, George - The Life and Adventures of George Nidever, 1802-1883. Orr, Phil C. - Ancient Population Centers of Santa Rosa Island. Price, Francis - Way of Life in Early Santa Barbara: The Mission Period 1786-1834. Ripoll, Antonio - Fray Antonio Ripoll's Description of the Chumash Revolt at Santa Barbara in 1824. Robinson, Alfred - Life in California, & A Historical Account of the Origin,Customs, and Traditions of the Indians of Alta-California (1947). The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories and Songs. Frontier and the West.  Histories, travel accounts, diaries, and popular literature, often with descriptions of Native Americans.  Also, some manuscript collections and more recent analyses and bibliographies. Clavigero, Francesco Saverio - Storia antica del Messico ... (1780), on the early history of the Indians of Mexico.  Custer and Little Big Horn - Large collection of 19th century works and more recent analyses, including: Anderson, Harry H. - Cheyennes at the Little Big Horn: A Study of Statistics; Kain, Robert C. - In the Valley of the Little Big Horn: The 7th and the Sioux, June 25-26, 1876; McClernand, Edward J. - With the Indian and the Buffalo in Montana, 1870-1878... Tillett, Leslie - Wind on the Buffalo Grass: The Indians Own Account of the Battle at the Little Big Horn River, & the Death of Their Life on the Plains. Fort Laramie Collection - Research files from David Lavender, used in writing Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier. Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte - The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. Hand, George - The Civil War in Apacheland. Howes, Wright - U. S.iana, 1650-1950 (bibliography). Indian Captivity Narratives - Primarily late 18th and 19th century historical and fictional accounts (a popular genre of the period) and more recent analyses.  Works include: Kelly, Fanny Wiggins - Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians (1871); Spencer, Oliver M. - Indian Captivity ... (1848); Stratton, Royal B. - Captivity of the Oatman Girls (1857). Jacobs [Wilbur] Papers - Correspondence, research files, and writings of a historian of the frontier [UArch FacP 16].  Works include: Dispossessing the American Indian: Indians and Whites on the Colonial Frontier.   Monaghan [Jay] Collection - Includes research files relating to works on Black Hawk, Buffalo Bill, and George Armstrong Custer [Wyles Mss 20].  Morgan, Lewis Henry - Indian Journals, 1859-1862. Nadeau, Remi A. - Fort Laramie and the Sioux Indians. Powell [Philip W.] Collection - Primarily research files, including copies of 15th and 16th century Latin American and Spanish documents, assembled by a UCSB professor for a multi-volume history on the Spanish-Chicimeca frontier war and its aftermath [UARch FacP 18].  Powell's works include Soldiers, Indians & Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600. Rideing, William Henry - A-saddle in the Wild West: A Glimpse of Travel among the Adobe Towns, Indian Reservations, and Ancient Pueblos of Southern Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona (1879). Sherburne, John P. - Through Indian Country to California: John P. Sherburne's Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854. So Much To Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Toole-Stott Circus Collection - Contains books on the Wild West and other traveling shows, and their depictions of Native Americans. Tuska, Jon, and Vicki Piekarski - The Frontier Experience (includes a chapter on Native Americans). United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Pacific Sierra Region.  Records in the National Archives - Pacific Sierra Region for the Study of Ethnic History. Wagner, Henry Raup, and Charles L. Camp - The Plains & the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West 1800-1865 [microfiche copies of titles from the bibliography may be found in the Microfilm Area of Davidson Library] [Westerns].  First and early editions of popular fictional works, often with depictions of Native Americans.  Also, dime novels, pulp magazines, and other mass market literature showing perceptions and attitudes about Native Americans, primarily in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.  Authors include: Max Brand, Robert O. Easton, Zane Grey, Larry McMurtry, and Charles H. Snow (large collection, 1930s-1960s). Wheat, Carl - Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861 (some 19th century U.S. maps include information about Native American groups and territories).  White, David A. - News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865: Original Narratives of Overland Travel and Adventure Selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker Bibliography of Western Americana [7 vols.]. Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Wyles [William] Collection - Contains extensive printed materials and a number of manuscript collections relating to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and contact with Native American groups.  Many of the titles listed elsewhere in this guide are from the Wyles Collection. Government Relations, Law, and Public Policy.  Clowser, Don C. - Dakota Indian Treaties. Confederate States of America - Statutes at Large... and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes. Ellison, William Henry - The Federal Indian Policy in California, 1846-1860. Hart [Gary K] Collection - Materials from the California state senator from Santa Barbara, with legislative, research, and subject files, some pertaining to Native American issues [Mss 41]. Jackson, Helen Hunt - A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881). Phillips, George Harwood - Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852. Prucha, Francis Paul - American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900; American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly; A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States; The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians; United States - Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, and Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869 <microform>. United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sacramento Indian Agency - The Status of the Indian in California Today. United States.  National Archives and Records Service - American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Literature.  Mainly fiction and poetry by Native American authors, in first, signed, and early editions (other copies frequently are in the Main stacks). Alexie, Sherman - First Indian on the Moon (1993), The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Old Shirts & New Skins (1993), Indian Killer (1996), The Summer of Black Widows (1996), One Stick Song (2000). Allen, Paula Gunn - The Blind Lion: Poems (1974), Shadow Country (1982), The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (1983), Columbus and Beyond: Views from Native Americans (1992), Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature (1994), As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans (1996), Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons (1998). Angulo, Jaime de - Coyote Man & Old Doctor Loon (1973). Castaneda, Carlos - mainly editions in Spanish; also, Richard De Mille Collection (critical examination of Castaneda's works on the Yaqui) [Mss 20]. Eastman, Charles Alexander - Indian Boyhood (1902), Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904), The Soul of the Indian; An Interpretation (1911). Erdrich, Louise - The Beet Queen (1986), Route 2 (1990), The Crown of Columbus (with Michael Dorris, 1991). Harjo, Joy - Secrets from the Center of the World (1989), In Mad Love and War (1990). Hogan, Linda - Mean Spirit (1990), Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995), Solar Storms (1995), Power (1998). King, Thomas - Green Grass, Running Water (1993). Miranda, Deborah [Chumash poet] - Indian Cartography (1999). Momaday, N. Scott [UCSB professor in the 1960s and UCSB Libraries Corle lecturer, 1971, 1986] - The Journey of Tai-me (1967), House Made of Dawn (1968), The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), Angle of Geese and Other Poems (1974), Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion, Carmel Mission, June, 1960 (1975), Californian Indian Characteristics & Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California (1975), The Colors of Night (1976), The Ancient Child: A Novel (1989). O'Brien, Lynne Woods - Plains Indian Autobiographies. Power, Susan - The Grass Dancer (1994). Ridge, John Rollin [19th century Cherokee author] - A Trumpet of Our Own: Yellow Bird's Essays on the North American Indian (1981), The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta ... (1995). Rose, Wendy - Hopi Roadrunner Dancing (1974), The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems (1985). Savala, Refugio - The Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet (1980). Silko, Leslie Marmon - The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright(1986), Almanac of the Dead (1991), Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit(1996). Welch, James - Fools Crow (1986), Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians(1994). Young Bear, Ray A. - Waiting to be Fed (1975), Remnants of the First Earth (1996). Missions.  Early accounts and more recent analyses dealing with issues such as conversion and treatment of Native Americans, with emphasis on California.  Beebe, Rose Marie - Tensions among the Missionaries in the 1790s. Community Development and Conservation Collection - contains photographs, reports, and other materials primarily relating to the Santa Barbara and La Purisima missions [SBHC Mss 1]. Cook, Sherburne Friend - The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. Farris, Glenn J. - Prominent Indian Families at Mission La Purisima Concepcion as Identified in Baptismal, Marriage, and Burial Records Native American Archives. Geiger, Maynard J. - As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813-1815; The Indians of Mission Santa Barbara in Paganism and Christianity. Guest, Francis F. - An Examination of the Thesis of S. F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of Indians in the California Missions; Junipero Serra and His Approach to the Indians.   Jackson, Robert H. - Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Meighan, Clement Woodward - Indians and California Missions. The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. O'Neal, Margaret- California's Mission Heritage. Young, James R. - An Inventory of the Mission Indian Agency Records. Music.  Printed materials and sound recordings. Burlin, Natalie Curtis (ed.) - The Indians' book (includes songs). Javitch, Gregory - A Selective Bibliography of Ceremonies, Dances, Music & Songs of the American Indian ... Performing Arts Collection - Sound recordings, including discs of Laura Boulton's Native American field recordings (in the Leopold Stokowski test pressings collection, ca. 1940) and commercial recordings of Native American songs and tunes, ca. 1920s-1930s, on labels such as His Master's Voice and Victor. The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs. Organizations/Advocacy Groups. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection - Records of the Santa Barbara based think tank, with papers and conference proceedings, some dealing with Native American issues. Community Development and Conservation Collection (CDCC) - Contains files for the American Association on Indian Affairs Files (later Association on Indian Affairs), American Indian Historical Society, American Indian League, California Indian Rights Association, Inc., California League for American Indians, Candelaria American Indian Council, Indian Defense Association of Santa Barbara, Inter-Tribal Council of California Inc., National Association on Indian Affairs, National Congress of American Indians, Southwest Indian Foundation; also files on the La Purisima Mission. Tremaine [Katharine W.] Collection - Subject and grantee files for organizations such as American Indian College Fund, American Indian Institute, American Indian Movement, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, Hoka Hey Tiospaye Sovereign Ogala Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Indian Center of Santa Barbara, Indian Justice Network, Indian Law Resource Center, Lakota Communications, Inc, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, National Indian Youth Council, Inc, Native American Training Associates Institute, Santa Barbara Indian Center, Save the Jemez, Tribal Sovereignty Program, and Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee [SBHC Mss 43]. Photographs.  Primarily 19th and early 20th century western photographers (shooting Native American scenes and portraits) and more recent scholarly examinations.  Andrews, Ralph Warren - Curtis' Western Indians; Photographers of the Frontier West ... Current, Karen - Photography and the Old West. [Curtis, Edward S.] - Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher; Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race; In a Sacred Manner We Live...; The Vanishing Race and Other Illusions: Photographs of Indians by Edward S. Curtis); Portraits from North American Indian Life; Selected Writings of Edward S. Curtis; The Sioux and the Apsaroke ... Fleming, Paula - Grand Endeavors of American Indian Photography; The North American Indians in Early Photographs; The Shadow Catcher: Images of the American Indian. Fly, Camillus S. - Geronimo, the Apache Chief. Hillers, John K. - "Photographed All the Best Scenery": Jack Hillers's Diary ...; The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers. [Lummis, Charles F.] - Charles F. Lummis: The Man and His West; Lummis in the Pueblos. Mautz, Carl - Biographies of Western Photographers;Checklist of Western Photographers. Moeller, Bill - Crazy Horse, His Life, His Lands: A Photographic Biography. Monsen, Frederick L. - The Frederick Monsen Ethnographic Photographs ... O'Sullivan, Timothy H. - T. H. O'Sullivan: Photographer. Palmquist, Peter E. - Photography in the West. Rinehart, Frank A. - The Face of Courage: The Indian Photographs of Frank A. Rinehart. Rosa, Joseph G. - Buffalo Bill and His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography. Soule, William S. - Plains Indian Raiders..., by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, with original photos by William S. Soule. Vroman, Adam Clark - Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs...; Photographer of the Southwest, Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916. Religion.  The American Religions Collection (ARC) has books, serials, and some manuscript files relating to Native American religions, religious organizations working with Native American populations, and other groups drawing upon Native American religions and religious practices. Bailey, Paul Dayton - Ghost Dance Messiah. Beaver, R. Pierce - The Native American Christian Community: A Directory of Indian, Aleut, and Eskimo Churches. Bend, Cynthia - Birth of a Modern Shaman. Dane, Christopher - The American Indian and the Occult. Eargle, Dolan - The Earth Is Our Mother: A Guide to the Indians of California, Their Locales, and Historic Sites.  Eaton, Evelyn - The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel. [Groups] - Includes Native American Church of North America, North American Indian Missions, United Indian Missions, Inc. Hungry Wolf, Adolf - Good Medicine Thoughts. Hurdy, John M. - American Indian Religions. Park, Irene A. - Witchcraft, Idolatry and Indian Ways. Shaman's Drum. Steiger, Brad - Medicine Power. Page maintained by: CEMA. Last modified: 11/20/06 05:06:17 Direct questions or comments about this page to the author or to the Web Administrator. This is an official University of California, Santa Barbara Library web page.