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Thatcher, B. B.

Indian biography : a minute and graphic story of early Indian life in the United States : Indian manners, customs and wars, a valuable compendium to American history / by B. B. Thatcher.  Akron, Ohio : Superior Printing Co., 1910. 187 pages ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 T32

Stirling, Matthew Williams

Origin myth of Acoma and other records / by Matthew W. Stirling.  Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1942. viii, 123 pages, 17 plates (1 colour) on 9 pages : ill

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 St5

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

Acoma Indians — Religion and mythology
Acoma (N.M.)

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Chamberlain, Montague

Maliseet vocabulary / by Montague Chamberlain ; with an introduction by William F. Ganong.  Cambridge Mass. : Harvard Cooperative Society, 1899. 94 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M46 C35

Macmillan, Cyrus

Glooskap's country, and other Indian tales / illustrated by John A. Hall.  Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 G51

MacMillan, Cyrus

Canadian wonder tales / by Cyrus Macmillan ; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson.  London : John Lane, 1918. xvi, 199 pages : colour front., colour plates ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 C16

Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore.

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Hodge, Frederick Webb

Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1907-1910. 2 v. : illustrations, maps (1 fold) ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66 2

On spine: 59th Congress. Ist session, December 4, 1905-1906. House Documents, Volume 61-62

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

First Nations of North America — Encyclopedias.

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Hodge, Frederick Webb

Handbook of Indians of Canada : published as an appendix to the Tenth report of the Geographic Board of Canada / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.  Ottawa : Geographic Board, 1913. x, 632 pages : 3 fold maps. ; 25 cm.

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Reprinted by permission of Mr. F.W. Hodge ... from Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American ethnology, and edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Reprinted under the direction of James White. Published also in French under title: Manuel des indiens du Canada. At head of title: Geographic Board. Canada. 1912.

White, James, 1863-1928.

First Nations of North America — Canada.

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Hatzan, A. Leon

The true story of Hiawatha and history of the Six Nation Indians / by A. Leon Hatzan.  Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1925. 298 pages, [9] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H28

Iroquois Indians
Hiawatha, Iroquois Indian.

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Grey Owl

A Book of Grey Owl : pages from the writings of Wa-sha-quon-asin / with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs.  Toronto : Macmillan, 1938. xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 G86

Brownell, Charles De Wolf

The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell.  New York : The American Subscription House, 1857. 720 pages, [44] pages of plates : colour plates, ports

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Brownell, Charles De Wolf

The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell.  New York : The American Subscription Publishing House, 1859. 720 pages, [40] pages of plates : colour plates, ports

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82

Barbeau, Charles Marius

Indian captivities Washington, D.C. : American Philosophical Society, 1950. [522]-548 pages ; 27 cm.

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Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, v. 94, no. 6 (Dec. 1950.

First Nations of North America — Captivities.

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Fraser, Simon

The letters and journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 / edited with an introd. by W. Kaye Lamb ; maps by C. C. J. Bond.  Toronto : Macmillan, 1960. 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Brebner, John Bartlet

The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner.  New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.

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Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.

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Gaither, Frances

The fatal river : the life and death of La Salle / by Frances Gaither.  New York : H. Holt, 1931. 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : maps ; 21 cm.

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Map on lining-papers.

Explorers — Canada — Biography.

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Chesnel, Paul

History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany.  New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.

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Baxter, James Phinney

A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc / by James Phinney Baxter.  New York : Dodd, Mead, 1906. ix, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations

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Limited edition of 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper.

America — Discovery and exploration — French.

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Janvier, Thomas Allibone

Henry Hudson, a brief statement of his aims and his achievements, to which is added a newly-discovered partial record, now first published, of the trial of the mutineers by whom he and others were abandoned to their death New York : Harper, 1909. 147 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 H86 J26

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Williamson, James Alexander

The Cabot voyages and Bristol discovery under Henry VII / by James A. Williamson ; with cartography of the voyages by R. A. Skelton.  Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. xvi, 332 pages, [11] pages of plates (some folded) :

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67 1962

Mather, Cotton

Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 : in seven books / by Cotton Mather.  London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 7 pt. in 1 v. : folded map ; 34 cm.

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Pagination irregular: paging of Book IV begins with pages 125.

New England — Church history
New England — Biographies
New England — History — Colonial period.

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Arciniegas, Germán

Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís.  [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Murray, Hugh

Historical account of discoveries and travels in North America : including the United States, Canada, the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a north-west passage ; with observations on emigration / by Hugh Murray.  London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; 1829. 2 v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 M98

North America — History
America — Discovery and exploration.

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Irving, Washington

Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus / by Washington Irving.  New York : Crowell & Co., 18--. 730 pages : front. ; 21 cm.

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Appendix: pages 609.

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Irving, Washington

History of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus / by Washington Irving.  A new edition revised and corrected / Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, for George W. Gorton, 1841. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Appendix: containing illustrations and documents, v. 2, pages [207]-356.

America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.

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Irving, Washington

The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus : together with the voyages of his companions / by Washington Irving.  New and rev. ed. London : John Murray, 1849. 3 v. ; 23 cm.

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The works of Washington Irving. New edition, rev. Volume III-V

America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.

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