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Pilling, James Constantine

Bibliography of the Algonquin languages / by James Constantine Pilling.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1891. x, 614 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 AL3 P64

Algonquian languages — Bibliography.

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O'Bryan, Aileen

The Dîné : origin myths of the Navaho Indians Washington, D.C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1956. vii, 187 pages : illustrations, diagrs. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 N22 Ob6

Partridge, Emelyn Newcomb

Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M58 P25

Most of the stories are adapted from Rand's Legends of the Micmacs.

Glooscap (Legendary character)
Mi'kmaq — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.

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Maine Historical Society

Newsletter / Maine Historical Society.  Portland, Me. : The Society, 1961-. 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M22

Description based on: fall 1984. Title from cover.

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Marquette, Jacques

Facsimile of Père Marquette's Illinois Prayer Book : its history / by J.L. Hubert Neilson.  Quebec : Quebec Lit. and Hist. Society, 1908. 12 pages : facsims., port. ; 16 x 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 I16 A15

History of the prayer book is in English; text of the prayer book is in Illinois, with some headings in French and Latin. The prayer book was prepared by Father Claude Allouez at the request of Father Marquette--pages 8. Published ... in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec, July 1608. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies.

Allouez, Claude, 1622-1689
Neilson, J. L. Hubert (John Louis Hubert), 1845-1925.

Illinois language — Texts.

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Zeisberger, David

David Zeisberger's History of the Northern American Indians / edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel Schwarze.  Columbus : Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1910. ii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 Ze3

On spine: History of the Northern American Indians. Appeared originally in the regular Quarterly publications of the Society for January and April, 1910.--Pref. Includes index.

Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933
Schwarze, William Nathaniel, 1875-1948.

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.

First Nations of North America
First Nations of North America — New York (State)
First Nations of North America — Pennsylvania
First Nations of North America — Ohio.

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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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Jenness, Diamond

The Indians of Canada / by Diamond Jenness.  Ottawa : F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1932. x, 446 pages : colour front., illustrations, colour plates. ; 26 c

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43i

Folded map in pocket.

First Nations of North America — Canada.

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Jenness, Diamond

The American aborigines, their origin and antiquity Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1933. 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43

A collection of papers by ten authors, assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness; published for presentation at the fifth Pacific Science Congress, Canada, 1933.

Indians — Origin
First Nations of North America — Antiquities
Indians of South America — Antiquities
Man — Migrations.

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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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66

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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Drake, Samuel G.

Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake.  5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78

Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.

First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.

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Barbeau, Marius

Indian captivities / Marius Barbeau.  Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1950. p. [522]-548 ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B23 In2

First Nations of North America — Captivities.

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Barbeau, Charles Marius

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

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B23 In2

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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 F46

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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42

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

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 C24 B33

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

America — Discovery and exploration — French.

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McCann, Franklin T.

English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann.  New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13

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

Williamson, James A.

The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII / by James A. Williamson.  London : Argonaut Press, 1929. xiii, 290 pages, [13] pages of plates (1 folded) : m

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

Limited edition of 1050 numbered copies. Includes index.

America — Discovery and exploration — British.

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Beazley, C. Raymond

John and Sebastian Cabot : the discovery of North America / by C. Raymond Beazley.  London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. xx, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 B38

Discoveries in geography — American
America — Discovery and exploration.

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