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Boas, Franz

Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off, 1911-. 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 B63

Tan teladakadidjik apostalewidjik : the akts ov the aposelz in Mikmak Bath : Printed for the British and Foren Beibel Svoseiti, bei Eizak Pitman, 1863. 140 pages ; 17 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 B47 AC8

Printed in phonetic characters. Bracketed characters in subtitle and publisher statement represent printed phonetic characters. Translated by Silas Tertius Rand.

Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889.

Mi'kmaq language — Texts.

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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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Swanton, John Reed

The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton.  Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952. vi, 726 pages : 4 folded maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Sw2

First Nations of North America.

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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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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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Hunter, John D.

Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from the author's earliest recollection to his assumption of the habits of civilized life London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1823-. 468 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H92

Issued with: Manners and customs of several Indian tribes : located west of the Mississippi.

First Nations of North America — Captivities
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.

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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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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

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

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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74

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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 G12

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.

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

               

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