SECONDARY SOURCES
Bowers, Alfred. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Based on interviews with Mandan men and women, anthropologist Alfred Bowers
reconstructs the early lifeways of the Mandan.
Brown, Mark H. The Flight of the Nez Perce. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1982.
This book describes the conflicts between the Nez Perces and non-Indian settlers,
the 1877 campaign against the Nez Perces, and their subsequent flight under
the leadership of Chief Joseph.
Bullchild, Percy. The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as
my Blackfeet Elders Told It. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
A remarkable collection of historical legends from the memory of the oral history
as it was passed down to Bullchild by his elders.
Calloway, Colin. One Vast Winter Count. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Examines the history of Native American and white interaction from the Appalachians
to the Pacific, from prehistory to the 18th century.
Christian, Shirley. Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus,
The French Dynasty That Ruled America’s Frontier. New York: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Documents the remarkable history of the Chouteau family at a time when French
settlers dominated much of the landscape west of the Mississippi.
Cutright, Paul Russell. A History of the Lewis and Clark Journals.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.
This is a history of each of the journals written by the members of the Corps
of Discovery.
Fowler, Loretta. American Indians of the Great Plains. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Presents material related to ongoing questions in history, anthropology and
American Indian studies.
Gilman, Carloyn. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide. Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003.
Explores the cultural landscapes
the expedition traversed.
Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Encyclopedia of North American Indians.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
Assembled by more than 260 noted scholars, tribal elders and activists, it is
the most complete work on North American Indians.
Jackson, John. The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture Under Siege.
Missoula: Mountain Press, 2000.
Jackson’s work examines the history and culture of the Piikani (Peigan
or Blackfeet) people, using government records, journals, and scholarly studies.
Peters, Virginia Bergman. Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life
on the Plains. North Haven: Archon Books, 1995.
Peters examines the role of women as farmers and traders amongst the Mandan,
Arikira and Hidatsa peoples.
Richter, Daniel K. Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History
of Early America. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2001.
Richter presents an alternative view of American history from the 15th to the
18th century, with Native Americans in the center, rather than on the margins,
of the story.
Ronda, James. Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
This is the first serious look at the relationship between the Corps of Discovery
and the Native Americans with whom they interacted.
Salish-Pend D’Oreille Culture Committee. The Salish People
and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2005.
Records the Salish account of their encounter with the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Wood, W. Raymond and Thomas D. Thiessan, eds. Early Fur Trade
on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians,
1738-1818. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
Collects scholarsly works examining the importance of the Mandan and Hidatsas
to trade on the plains, the fur trade, and early western exploration.