History of Native Nations in the U.S. & Canada

Multiple volumes; includes information by tribe, organized in regional volumes. Overviews, with citations to primary sources

Four-volume encyclopedia covers from the origins of Native American cultures through the years of colonialism and non-Native expansion to the present. See the Resources section at the end for primary sources.

Covers the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia.

This links to the original 1942 ed., the Jacqua Law Library has later, updated editions in print. Justice Frankfurter called this classic work the only book that has ever made sense and order from "the vast hodgepodge of treaties, statutes, judicial and administrative rulings, and unrecorded practice in which the intricacies and perplexities, confusions and injustices of the law governing Indians lay concealed."

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Native American Rights Movement examines such matters as the political struggle over treaty obligations, religious freedom, and the political sovereignty of reservations.

Includes reprints of both US and Canadian primary documents, as well as essays & other secondary sources. A "comprehensive introduction to the treaties that promised land, self-government, financial assistance, and cultural protections to many of the over 500 tribes of North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada)."