The Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has a wide range of ethnographic, historical, literary, and other resources relating to Native Americans, including books, serials, pamphlets, newspapers, letters, diaries, documents, photographs, and sound recordings. Materials are located in several areas of Special Collections, with the largest concentration in the William Wyles Collection (history of the American West). Materials can also be found in the CEMA collections.

Additional resources can be found in the Native American Studies Collection, the library handout Native American Studies Reference Guide, and the UC Library Search. Please visit the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Minor webpage, or the UCSB Research Databases for more information.

The following list describes areas with significant Special Collections holdings and gives some representative examples.

Art and Artists. Mainly depictions of Native Americans, by 19th and early 20th century artists, and related scholarly examinations (more recent works relating to Native American art and Native American artists generally are located in the UCSB Arts library).

  • Bodmer, Karl – Karl Bodmer’s America. [Spec, Wyles ND2010.B58 A4 1984].
  • Bodmer, Karl – Views of a Vanishing Frontier. [Spec, Wyles E78.M82 V54 1984].
  • [Borg, Carl Oscar] – Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artist of the American West. [Spec, Wyles N6537.B634 L35 1986].
  • Catlin, George – Episodes from Life among the Indians … [Main and Spec, Wyles E58 .C3535 1979].
  • [Deming, Edwin Willard] – Eight Bears: A Biography of E. W. Deming, 1860-1942. [Spec, Wyles N6537.D44 L35].
  • Ewers, John Canfield – Artists of the Old West. [Spec, Wyles N6525 .E9].
  • Kane, Paul – Paul Kane, the Columbia Wanderer, 1846-7: Sketches and Paintings … including Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America. [Spec, Wyles N6549.K3 V3].
  • McKenney, Thomas – History of Indian Tribes of North America (1832-1843), 3 vols, very rare, with 120 hand-colored lithograph portraits. [Spec, Wyles E77 .M1305 1978].
  • [Miller, Alfred Jacob] – Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail. [Spec, Wyles N6537.M54 R49 1982].
  • Remington, Frederic
    • The Book of the American Indian (illus.). [Spec, Wyles E77 .G3].
    • Frederic Remington’s Southwest. [Arts, Art Exhibition Catalogs AEC-77297].
    • The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (illus.). [Main, Spec, and Spec, Wyles F592 .P284 1925].
    • Pony Tracks. [Spec, Wyles F595 .R4].
    • Red Men and White (illus.). [Main and Spec, Wyles PS3345 .R4].
    • Remington’s Frontier Sketches. [Native Amer. Studies E83.866 .R38 1969].
    • The Way of an Indian. [Main PS2695.R28 W3 and Spec, Wyles PZ3.R4 W3].
  • [Russell, Charles M.]
    • C. M. R.: Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Artist, a Biography. [Spec, Wyles ND237.R87 R8].
    • Charles M. Russell: The Frederic G. Renner Collection. [Spec, Wyles N6537.R88 A4 1981].
    • Titans of Western Art: Frederick Remington, Charles Russell. [Spec, Wyles N6525 .A5].

Biographies/Autobiographies. Primarily of 19th century Indian leaders.

  • [Black Elk] – Black Elk Speaks … The Great Indian Chief of the West. [Main E99.O3 B484 2004, and CTN, Spec, Wyles and Native Amer. Studies E90.B82 A3].
  • [Black Elk] – Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (1834). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E83.83 .B6].
  • [Crazy Horse] – Crazy Horse and Custer … [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E99.O3 A46].
  • [Crazy Horse] – Crazy Horse, the Strange Man of the Oglalas: A Biography. [Native Amer. Studies E99.O3 C728 2008 and Spec, Wyles E90.C94 S3].
  • [Geronimo]
    • The Geronimo Campaign. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E90.G4 F3].
    • Trailing Geronimo. [Spec E99.A6 M4].
    • The Apache Rock Crumbles … [Spec, Wyles E99.A6 S53 1987].
  • [Sacagawea] – Sacajawea (Shoshoni woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition). [Main and Spec F592.7.S1 H6].
  • [Sitting Bull]
    • "I am looking to the North for my life" – Sitting Bull, 1876-1881. [Spec, Wyles E99.D1 S6123 1990].
    • Sitting Bull and Gall, the Warrior. [Spec, Wyles E99.D1 M32].
    • The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. [Spec, Wyles E99.D1 S625 1993].
    • Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux … [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec, Wyles E99.D1 S6 1957].
  • [Tecumseh]
    • Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet. [Spec, Wyles E99.S35 T12 1855].
    • Tecumseh and His Times. [Spec, Wyles E99.S35 T4].
    • Tecumseh: Vision of Glory [Spec, Wyles E99.S35 T35 1973].

California. Studies of Native Americans in California and historical overviews with descriptions of Native Americans (including exploration, early settlement, Spanish/Mexican period, Gold Rush, and 19th century American expansion).

  • American Friends Service Committee – Indians of California, Past and Present. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 F7].
  • American Friends Service Committee – An-nik-a-del, the History of the Universe as Told by the Modes-se Indians of California. [Spec E98.F6 M5].
  • Beechey, Frederick William – An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-’27. [Spec, Printers Z239.B54 B443 1941].
  • Browne, J. Ross – The Indians of California. [Spec, Printers Z239.C56 B76 1944].
  • Brusa, Betty War – Salinan Indians of California and Their Neighbors. [Spec E99.S17 B78 1975].
  • Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton – Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851 … [Main and Spec, Wyles F868.Y6 B9].
  • Carrico, Richard L. – Strangers in a Stolen Land: American Indians in San Diego 1850-1880. [Main and Spec, Wyles E78.C15 C34 1987].
  • Cook, Sherburne Friend – The Population of the California Indians, 1769-1970. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec E78.C15 C698 1976].
  • Cowan, Robert Ernest – A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930. [Main, EGSL Ref, and Spec Z1261 .C6].
  • Eargle, Dolan – The Earth Is Our Mother: A Guide to the Indians of California. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, ARC E78.C15 E2 1991].
  • Earl, Guy Chaffee – Indian Legends and Songs. [Spec E99.P2 E24].
  • Earl, Guy Chaffee – Ethnology of the Alta California Indians. [Spec E78.C15 E85 1991].
  • Farnham, Thomas Jefferson – Life, Adventures, and Travels in California … (1852) [Spec F864 .F23 1852].
  • Forbes, Jack D. – Native Americans of California and Nevada. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 F6].
  • Gifford, Edward Winslow – Californian Indian Nights Entertainments: Stories of the Creation of the World … [Spec E98.R3 G45].
  • Heizer, Robert Fleming
    • The California Indians: A Source Book. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec E78.C15 H4 1971].
    • The Destruction of California Indians: A Collection of Documents from the Period 1847 to 1865 … [Main E78.C15 D48 1993 and Spec, Wyles E78.C15 H413].
    • Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579. [Spec E129.D7 H4].
    • Languages, Territories, and Names of California Indian Tribes. [Main and Spec E78.C15 H43].
  • Howard, Donald M. – Big Sur’s Lost Tribe: The Esselen. [Spec E78.C15 H6715 1979].
  • Hurtado, Albert L. – Indian Survival on the California Frontier. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 H87 1988].
  • Johnson, John R. – Native Americans on the Central Coast. [Spec E78.C15 N365 1997].
  • Judson, Katharine Berry – Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E98.F6 J9].
  • Kibby, Leo P. – California, the Civil War, and the Indian Problem … [Spec, Wyles E497 .K41].
  • Konsag, Ferdinand – Life and Work of the Reverend Ferdinand Konscak, S. J., 1703-1759, an Early Missionary in California. [Spec F864 .K82].
  • Kroeber, A. L. – Handbook of the Indians of California. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 K78].
  • Kroeber, Theodora – Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec E90.I8 K7].
  • Kroeber, Theodora – The Inland Whale. [Native Amer. Studies E98.F6 K93 1959 and Spec, Printers Z239.Y494 K76 1987].
  • Latta, Frank Forrest – California Indian Folklore. [Spec E98.F6 L3].
  • Lipps, Oscar Hiram – The Case of the California Indians. [Spec E78.C15 L6].
  • Longinos Martinez, Jose – California in 1792 … [Main F864 .L6 1961, Spec F864 .L87, and Spec, Wyles F864 .C95 1990].
  • Martin, Thomas Salathiel – With Fremont to California and the Southwest 1845-1849. [Spec, Wyles F593 .M355].
  • Meighan, Clement Woodward – Indians and California Missions Native Americans on the Central Coast … [Spec E78.C15 M45 1987].
  • Phillips, George Harwood – Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849. [Spec, Wyles E78.C15 P47 1993].
  • Reference Bibliographies for Building California Indian Library Collections. [Spec Z1261 .R35 1989].
  • Revere, Joseph Warren – A Tour of Duty in California … (1849) [Main and Spec F865 .R4].
  • Santos, Robert LeRoy – A Bibliography of Early California and Neighboring Territory through 1846: An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios,Ranchos, and Indians. [Spec F864 .S32 1992].
  • Thornton, Lawrence [Santa Barbara author] – Ghost Woman (fiction). [Spec PS3570.H6678 G479 1992].
  • Wagner, Henry Raup – California Voyages, 1539-1541: Translation of Original Documents. [Spec F864 .W15].
  • Wagner, Henry Raup – The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs. [Spec E78.C15 W39].
  • Wilson, Benjamin Davis – The Indians of Southern California in 1852. [Main, CTN, and Spec E78.C15 W5].

Chumash. Historical, ethnographic, and literary works (UCSB Library’s Native Amer. Studies Collection and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History also have extensive Chumash holdings).

  • Anderson, Eugene N. – The Chumash Indians of Southern California. [Native Amer. Studies, Curriculum Lab, and Spec E99.C815 A5].
  • The Archaeology of Oak Park, Ventura County, California. [Spec E99.C815 A7].
  • California’s Chumash Indians: A Project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Education Center. [Spec E99.C815 C34 1986].
  • Chumash Rock Painting. [Spec E99.C815 G725 1970z].
  • Cortes, Juan – The Doctrina and Confesionario of Juan Cortes. [Spec BX2187.C48 C67].
  • Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains … [Spec E99.C815 C84 1999].
  • December’s Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. [Main and Spec E99.C815 D42].
  • Easton [Robert O.] Collection – Contains research files relating to the Chumash, for his Saga of California series of books. (SBHC Mss 6).
  • Grant, Campbell – The Rock Paintings of the Chumash: A Study of a California Indian Culture. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec E99.C815 G7].
  • Guarino, Marie Donald – The Chumash Indians and Santa Barbara Mission,1786-1843. [Spec F869.S45 G827 1959a].
  • Harrington, John Peabody [Santa Barbara anthropologist] – Tomol: Chumash Watercraft as Described in the Ethnographic Notes of John P. Harrington. [Native Amer. Studies E99.C815 H37]
  • [Harrington, John Peabody] – Carobeth Laird, Encounter with an Angry God: Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington. [Main and Spec GN21.H27 L35].
  • Heizer, Robert Fleming – Original Accounts of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. [Spec F868.V5 H44 1973].
  • Holmes, Marie S. – The Chumash and Their Predecessors. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E99.C815 H65].
  • Hudson, Travis – Chumash Indian Games. [Curriculum Lab E99.C815 H53 1997 and Spec, Printers Z478.86 .S3253 H83 1980].
  • Hudson, Travis – Crystals in the Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology, and Rock Art. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E99.C815 H82].
  • Johnson, John R. – Chumash Indians after Secularization [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E99.C815 J64 1995].
  • Kaplan, Kathy Walden – Crow Story: A Legend of the Chumash. [Spec, Printers Z239.L457 K36 1987].
  • Landberg, Leif C. W. – The Chumash Indians of Southern California. [Spec E99.C815 L3].
  • Librado, Fernando – Eye of the Flute: Chumash Traditional History and Ritual (account of a Chumash Indian). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E99.C815 L52, and Spec, Printers Z239.M3434 L52 1981].
  • McLendon, Sally – Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains [Spec E99.C815 C84 1999].
  • Native Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay. [Spec E78.C15 N365 1997].
  • Nidever, George – The Life and Adventures of George Nidever, 1802-1883. [Main and Spec F864 .N62 1984, and Spec, Printers Z239.C3 N5].
  • Orr, Phil C. – Ancient Population Centers of Santa Rosa Island. [Spec F868.S23 O66 1951].
  • Price, Francis – Way of Life in Early Santa Barbara: The Mission Period 1786-1834. [Spec F869.S45 P85 1956].
  • Ripoll, Antonio – Fray Antonio Ripoll’s Description of the Chumash Revolt at Santa Barbara in 1824 [Spec E99.C815 R56 1970z].
  • Robinson, Alfred – Life in California, & A Historical Account of the Origin,Customs, and Traditions of the Indians of Alta-California (1947). [Main F864 .R673 and Spec F864 .R617].
  • The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories and Songs. [Spec E78.C15 W39].

Frontier and the West. Histories, travel accounts, diaries, and popular literature, often with descriptions of Native Americans. Also, some manuscript collections and more recent analyses and bibliographies.

  • Clavigero, Francesco Saverio – Storia antica del Messico … (1780), on the early history of the Indians of Mexico (in Spanish). [Spec F1219 .C61 1780].
  • Clavigero, Francesco Saverio – The History of Mexico … (trans.). [Main and Spec F1219 .C6213].
  • Custer and Little Big Horn. Large collection of 19thcentury works and more recent analyses, including:
    • Anderson, Harry H. – Cheyennes at the Little Big Horn: A Study of Statistics. [Spec, Wyles E83.876 A5].
    • Kain, Robert C. – In the Valley of the Little Big Horn: The 7th and the Sioux, June 25-26, 1876. [Spec, Wyles E83.876 .K3].
    • McClernand, Edward J. – With the Indian and the Buffalo in Montana, 1870-1878… [Spec, Wyles E83.866 .M18].
    • Tillett, Leslie – Wind on the Buffalo Grass: The Indians Own Account of the Battle at the Little Big Horn River, & the Death of Their Life on the Plains [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E83.876 .T54 1976].
  • Fort Laramie Collection – Research files from David Lavender, used in writing Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier [Gov. Info. Center, U.S. — I 29.9/5:118 and Spec, Wyles F769.F6 L39 1983]. (Wyles Mss 3).
  • Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte – The Frontiers of Women’s Writing: Women’s Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion. [Women’s Studies and Spec, Wyles PS366.F76 G46 1996].
  • Hand, George – The Civil War in Apacheland. [Spec, Wyles E470.9 .H36 1996].
  • Howes, Wright – U. S.iana, 1650-1950 (bibliography). [Main and Spec, Wyles Z1215 .H75 1962].
  • Indian Captivity Narratives. Primarily late 18th and 19thcentury historical and fictional accounts (a popular genre of the period) and more recent analyses. Works include:
    • Kelly, Fanny Wiggins – Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians (1871) [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E87 .K29].
    • Spencer, Oliver M. – Indian Captivity … (1848). [Main and Native Amer. Studies E87 .S7422, and Spec E87 .S743].
    • Stratton, Royal B. – Captivity of the Oatman Girls (1857). [Native Amer. Studies E99.A6 S84 1994, Spec, Printers Z239.G7 S78, and Spec E87 .O12 1935].
    • Jacobs [Wilbur] Papers – Correspondence, research files, and writings of a historian of the frontier. Works include: Dispossessing the American Indian: Indians and Whites on the Colonial Frontier [Main, Native Amer. Studies, Spec, and Spec, Wyles E91 .J3 1972]. (UArch FacP 16).
    • Monaghan [Jay] Collection – Includes research files relating to works on Black Hawk, Buffalo Bill, and George Armstrong Custer. (Wyles Mss 20).
    • Morgan, Lewis Henry – Indian Journals, 1859-1862. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec, Wyles E78.W5 M6].
    • Nadeau, Remi A. – Fort Laramie and the Sioux Indians. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles F769.F6 N3].
  • Powell [Philip W.] Collection – Primarily research files, including copies of 15th and 16th century Latin American and Spanish documents, assembled by a UCSB professor for a multi-volume history on the Spanish-Chicimeca frontier war and its aftermath. Powell’s works include Soldiers, Indians & Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 [Main F1231 .P6]. (UArch FacP 18).
  • Rideing, William Henry – A-saddle in the Wild West: A Glimpse of Travel among the Adobe Towns, Indian Reservations, and Ancient Pueblos of Southern Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona (1879). [Main and Spec, Wyles F786 .R55].
  • Sherburne, John P. – Through Indian Country to California: John P. Sherburne’s Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854. [Spec, Wyles F786 .S55 1988].
  • So Much To Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. [Main and Spec, Wyles F596 .S68 1990].
  • Toole-Stott Circus Collection – Contains books on the Wild West and other traveling shows, and their depictions of Native Americans.
  • Tuska, Jon, and Vicki Piekarski – The Frontier Experience (includes a chapter on Native Americans). [Spec, Wyles Z1251.W5 F76 1984].
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Pacific Sierra Region. – Records in the National Archives – Pacific Sierra Region for the Study of Ethnic History. [Spec E184.A1 U5154 1994].
  • Wagner, Henry Raup, and Charles L. Camp – The Plains & the Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure, and Travel in the American West 1800-1865 (microfiche copies of titles from the bibliography may be found in the Microfilm Area of Davidson Library). [Spec, Wyles Z1251.W5 W2 1982].
  • [Westerns]. First and early editions of popular fictional works, often with depictions of Native Americans. Also, dime novels, pulp magazines, and other mass market literature showing perceptions and attitudes about Native Americans, primarily in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. Authors include: Max Brand, Robert O. Easton, Zane Grey, Larry McMurtry, and Charles H. Snow (large collection, 1930s-1960s).
  • Wheat, Carl – Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861 (some 19th century U.S. maps include information about Native American groups and territories). [Spec, Wyles GA405 .W5].
  • White, David A. – News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865: Original Narratives of Overland Travel and Adventure Selected from the Wagner-Camp and Becker Bibliography of Western Americana (7 vols.). [Spec, Wyles F591 .W67 1996].
  • Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. [Main, Women’s Studies, and Spec, Wyles F593 .W65].
  • Wyles [William] Collection – Contains extensive printed materials and a number of manuscript collections relating to westward expansion in the nineteenth century and contact with Native American groups. Many of the titles listed elsewhere in this guide are from the Wyles Collection.

Government Relations, Law, and Public Policy.

  • Clowser, Don C. – Dakota Indian Treaties. [Spec, Wyles E99.D1 C56 1974].
  • Confederate States of America – Statutes at Large … and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States with Indian Tribes. [Microfiche E12 .S4, Spec, Wyles E484 .C65 (microfilm), and Spec, Wyles JK9679 .C61].
  • Ellison, William Henry – The Federal Indian Policy in California, 1846-1860 [Spec, Wyles E78.C15 E54 1974].
  • Hart [Gary K] Collection – Materials from the California state senator from Santa Barbara, with legislative, research, and subject files, some pertaining to Native American issues. (Mss 41).
  • Jackson, Helen Hunt – A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E93 .J12].
  • Phillips, George Harwood – Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California, 1849-1852. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E78.C15 P46 1997].
  • Prucha, Francis Paul
    • American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E93 .P964].
    • American Indian Treaties: The History of a Political Anomaly. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec KF8205 .P75 1994].
    • A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States. [Spec, Wyles Z1209.2.U5 P67].
    • The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. [Native Amer. Studies, Spec, Wyles E93 .P9654 1984].
  • United States – Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. [Native Amer. Studies E94 .U6 1904].
  • United States – Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869 (microform) [Spec, Wyles KF8202 1966].
  • United States, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Sacramento Indian Agency – The Status of the Indian in California Today [Spec E78.C15 U475 1944].
  • United States. National Archives and Records Service – American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. [Ref E93 .U49 1984 and Spec Z1209 .U53 1984].

Literature. Mainly fiction and poetry by Native American authors, in first, signed, and early editions (other copies frequently are in the Main stacks).

  • Alexie, Sherman
    • First Indian on the Moon (1993). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3551 .L35774 F5 1993].
    • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec PS3551.L35774 L66].
    • Old Shirts & New Skins (1993). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3551 .L35774 O43 1993].
    • Indian Killer (1996). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3551 .L35774 I56 1996].
    • The Summer of Black Widows (1996). [Native Amer. Studies and SpecPS3551 .L35774 S86 1996].
    • One Stick Song (2000). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3551.L35774 O53 2000].
  • Allen, Paula Gunn
    • The Blind Lion: Poems (1974). [Spec PS3551.L397 B5].
    • Shadow Country (1982). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3551.L397 S52 1982].
    • The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (1983). [Spec, Printers Z239.S665 A55 1983].
    • Columbus and Beyond: Views from Native Americans (1992). [SpecF1411 .C73 1992].
    • Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature (1994). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS508.I5 V64 1994].
    • As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans (1996). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E89 .A45 1996].
    • Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons (1998). [Main and Spec PS3551.L397 O38 1998].
  • Angulo, Jaime de – Coyote Man & Old Doctor Loon (1973). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E98.F6 A49].
  • Castaneda, Carlos – mainly editions in Spanish; also, Richard De Mille Collection (critical examination of Castaneda’s works on the Yaqui) (Mss 20).
  • Eastman, Charles Alexander
    • Indian Boyhood (1902). [Native Amer. Studies E99.D1 E17 1971b and Spec E98.C5 E2].
    • Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904). [Spec, Wyles E98.F6 E2].
    • The Soul of the Indian; An Interpretation (1911). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec, Wyles E98.R3 E2].
  • Erdrich, Louise
    • The Beet Queen (1986). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3555.R42 B4 1986].
    • Route 2 (1990). [Spec, Printers Z239.L657 E73 1991].
    • The Crown of Columbus (with Michael Dorris, 1991). [Main and Spec PS3554.O695 C76].
  • Harjo, Joy – Secrets from the Center of the World (1989). [Spec PS3558.A62423 S43 1989].
  • Harjo, Joy – In Mad Love and War (1990). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3558 .A62423 I6 1990].
  • Hogan, Linda
    • Mean Spirit (1990). [Spec PS3558.O34726 M4 1990].
    • Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec BD581 .H573 1995].
    • Solar Storms (1995). [Main PS3558 .O34726 S58 1995 and Spec PS3558.O34726 S5799 1995 (uncorrected advance proof)].
    • Power (1998). [Main and Spec PS3558.O34726 P6 1998].
  • King, Thomas – Green Grass, Running Water (1993). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PR9199.3 .K4422 G7].
  • Miranda, Deborah [Chumash poet] – Indian Cartography (1999). [Spec PS3563.I6883 I53 1999].
  • Momaday, N. Scott.UCSB professor in the 1960s and UCSB Libraries Corle lecturer, 1971, 1986.
    • The Journey of Tai-me (1967). [Spec PS3563.O47 J69 1967 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.U56 M66 1967].
    • House Made of Dawn (1968). [Main, Native Amer. Studies, and Spec PS3563.O47 H6].
    • The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969). [Native Amer. Studies, Spec , and Spec, ARC E99.K5 M64].
    • Angle of Geese and Other Poems (1974). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3563.O47 A8].
    • Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion, Carmel Mission, June, 1960 (1975). [Spec PS3563.O47 B4 1975].
    • Californian Indian Characteristics & Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California (1975). [Spec E78.C15 P6].
    • The Colors of Night (1976). [Spec PS3563.O47 C64 1976].
    • The Ancient Child: A Novel (1989). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3563.O47 A78 1989].
  • O’Brien, Lynne Woods – Plains Indian Autobiographies. [Spec, Wyles E78.G73 O27 1973].
  • Power, Susan – The Grass Dancer (1994). [Native Amer. Studies PS3566 .O83578 G73 1994 and Spec PS3566.O83578 G729 1994 (uncorrected proof)].
  • Ridge, John Rollin – [19th century Cherokee author]. A Trumpet of Our Own: Yellow Bird’s Essays on the North American Indian (1981). [Spec E77 .R52 1981].
  • Ridge, John Rollin – The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta … (1995). [Main and CTN F865.M96 R53 and Spec PS3535.I539 L5].
  • Rose, Wendy – Hopi Roadrunner Dancing (1974). [Spec PS3568.O7644 H6 1974].
  • Rose, Wendy – The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems (1985). [Spec PS3568.O7644 H34 1985].
  • Savala, Refugio – The Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet (1980), [Main and Spec E99.Y3 S28].
  • Silko, Leslie Marmon
    • The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright (1986). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3569.I44 A848 1986].
    • Almanac of the Dead (1991). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3569.I44 A79 1991].
    • Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit(1996). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E59.P45 S55].
  • Welch, James – Fools Crow (1986). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec PS3573.E44 F66 1986].
  • Welch, James – Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (1994). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E83.876 .W38 1994].
  • Young Bear, Ray A. – Waiting to be Fed (1975). [Spec PS3575.O865 W3].
  • Young Bear, Ray A. – Remnants of the First Earth (1996). [Main and Spec PS3575.O865 R46].

Missions. Early accounts and more recent analyses dealing with issues such as conversion and treatment of Native Americans, with emphasis on California.

  • Beebe, Rose Marie – Tensions among the Missionaries in the 1790s. [Spec F864 .B388 1996].
  • Community Development and Conservation Collection – contains photographs, reports, and other materials primarily relating to the Santa Barbara and La Purisima missions. (SBHC Mss 1).
  • Cook, Sherburne Friend – The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 C68 1976].
  • Farris, Glenn J. – Prominent Indian Families at Mission La Purisima Concepcion as Identified in Baptismal, Marriage, and Burial Records Native American Archives. [Spec F869.M65 F37 1999].
  • Geiger, Maynard J. – As the Padres Saw Them: California Indian Life and Customs as Reported by the Franciscan Missionaries, 1813-1815; The Indians of Mission Santa Barbara in Paganism and Christianity. [Main, Native Amer. Studies, CTN, Spec, and Spec, Wyles E78.C15 A83].
  • Guest, Francis F. – An Examination of the Thesis of S. F. Cook on the Forced Conversion of Indians in the California Missions. [Spec E78.C15 C685 1979].
  • Guest, Francis F. – Junipero Serra and His Approach to the Indians. [Spec F864.S44 G85 1985].
  • Jackson, Robert H. – Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E78.C15 J318 1995].
  • Meighan, Clement Woodward – Indians and California Missions. [Spec E78.C15 M45 1987].
  • The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. [Spec F864 .M683 1987].
  • O’Neal, Margaret – California’s Mission Heritage. [Spec F864 .O63].
  • Young, James R. – An Inventory of the Mission Indian Agency Records. [Spec Z1209 Y695 1976].

Music. Printed materials and sound recordings.

  • Burlin, Natalie Curtis (ed.) – The Indians’ book (includes songs). [Native Amer. Studies and Spec E98.F6 B96].
  • Javitch, Gregory – A Selective Bibliography of Ceremonies, Dances, Music & Songs of the American Indian … [Spec Z1209 .J38].
  • Performing Arts Collection – Sound recordings, including discs of Laura Boulton’s Native American field recordings (in the Leopold Stokowski test pressings collection, ca. 1940) and commercial recordings of Native American songs and tunes, ca. 1920s-1930s, on labels such as His Master’s Voice and Victor.
  • The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs. [Spec E78.C15 W39].

Organizations/Advocacy Groups.

  • Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection – Records of the Santa Barbara based think tank, with papers and conference proceedings, some dealing with Native American issues. (Mss 18).
  • Community Development and Conservation Collection (CDCC) – Contains files for the American Association on Indian Affairs Files (later Association on Indian Affairs), American Indian Historical Society, American Indian League, California Indian Rights Association, Inc., California League for American Indians, Candelaria American Indian Council, Indian Defense Association of Santa Barbara, Inter-Tribal Council of California Inc., National Association on Indian Affairs, National Congress of American Indians, Southwest Indian Foundation; also files on the La Purisima Mission. (SBHC Mss 1).
  • Tremaine (Katharine W.) Collection – Subject and grantee files for organizations such as American Indian College Fund, American Indian Institute, American Indian Movement, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, Hoka Hey Tiospaye Sovereign Ogala Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Indian Center of Santa Barbara, Indian Justice Network, Indian Law Resource Center, Lakota Communications, Inc, Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, National Indian Youth Council, Inc, Native American Training Associates Institute, Santa Barbara Indian Center, Save the Jemez, Tribal Sovereignty Program, and Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee (SBHC Mss 43).

Photographs. Primarily 19th and early 20th century western photographers shooting Native American scenes and portraits) and more recent scholarly examinations.

  • Andrews, Ralph Warren – Curtis’ Western Indians. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E78.W5 A59].
  • Andrews, Ralph Warren – Photographers of the Frontier West … [Special Coll., Wyles Collection F596 .A5].
  • Current, Karen – Photography and the Old West. [Sciences-Engineering Library, Arts Library, and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR23.6 .C87].
  • [Curtis, Edward S.]
    • Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher. [Sciences-Engineering Library, Arts Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR140.C82 D38 1985].
    • Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race. [Native Amer. Studies and Special Collections E77.5 .C78].
    • In a Sacred Manner We Live… [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E77.5 .C8 1981].
    • The Vanishing Race and Other Illusions: Photographs of Indians by Edward S. Curtis. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E77.5 .L95 1982b and Arts Library, Art Exhibition Catalogs AEC-39572].
    • Portraits from North American Indian Life. [Native Amer. Studies and Special Collections E77 .C982 1972].
    • Selected Writings of Edward S. Curtis. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E77 .C982 1976].
    • The Sioux and the Apsaroke … [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E99.D1 C87 1975].
  • Fleming, Paula
    • Grand Endeavors of American Indian Photography. [Arts Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR23.6 .F55 1993].
    • The North American Indians in Early Photographs. [Main Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection E77.5 .F54 1986].
    • The Shadow Catchers: Images of the American Indian. [Native Amer. Studies E77.5 .F55 1993 and Special Coll., Wyles Collection E77.5 .F53 1996].
  • Fly, Camillus S. – Geronimo, the Apache Chief. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E99.A6 F56 1986].
  • Hillers, John K. – "Photographed All the Best Scenery": Jack Hillers’s Diary … [Main Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection F788 .H66 1972].
  • Hillers, John K. – The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers. [Arts Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR660 .F68 1989].
  • [Lummis, Charles F.] – Charles F. Lummis: The Man and His West. [Main Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection PS3523.U49 Z65].
  • [Lummis, Charles F.] – Lummis in the Pueblos. [Native Amer. Studies and Special Coll., Wyles Collection E99.P9 H69 1986].
  • Mautz, Carl – Biographies of Western Photographers. [Arts Library, Reference and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR139 .M38 1997].
  • Mautz, Carl – Checklist of Western Photographers. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR139 .M39 1986].
  • Moeller, Bill – Crazy Horse, His Life, His Lands: A Photographic Biography. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E99.O3 C725 1987].
  • Monsen, Frederick L. – The Frederick Monsen Ethnographic Photographs … [Special Collections E77 .M65 1920z].
  • O’Sullivan, Timothy H. – T. H. O’Sullivan: Photographer. [Arts Library, Art Exhibition Catalogs AEC-65214 and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR140.O8 N4].
  • Palmquist, Peter E. – Photography in the West. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR23.6 .P55 1987].
  • Rinehart, Frank A. – The Face of Courage: The Indian Photographs of Frank A. Rinehart. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection E89 .R6].
  • Rosa, Joseph G. – Buffalo Bill and His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography. [Special Coll., Wyles Collection F594.B63 R67 1989].
  • Soule, William S. – Plains Indian Raiders…, by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, with original photos by William S. Soule. [Native Amer. Studies and Special Coll., Wyles Collection E83.866 .N9].
  • Vroman, Adam Clark – Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs … [Native Amer. Studies and Special Coll., Wyles Collection E78.S7 V76 1973].
  • Vroman, Adam Clark – Photographer of the Southwest, Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916. [Arts Library and Special Coll., Wyles Collection TR140.V7 A3 1974].

Religion. The American Religions Collection (ARC) has books, serials, and some manuscript files relating to Native American religions, religious organizations working with Native American populations, and other groups drawing upon Native American religions and religious practices.

  • Bailey, Paul Dayton – Ghost Dance Messiah. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E99.P2 W58 1970b].
  • Beaver, R. Pierce – The Native American Christian Community: A Directory of Indian, Aleut, and Eskimo Churches. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.M6 B32].
  • Bend, Cynthia – Birth of a Modern Shaman. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 W633 1987].
  • Dane, Christopher – The American Indian and the Occult. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 D364 1973].
  • Eargle, Dolan – The Earth Is Our Mother: A Guide to the Indians of California, Their Locales, and Historic Sites. [Native Amer. Studies and Special Coll., American Religions Collection E78.C15 E2].
  • Eaton, Evelyn – The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection PS3509.A84 Z47 1982].
  • [Groups] – Includes Native American Church of North America, North American Indian Missions, United Indian Missions, Inc. (In American Religions Collection, ARC Mss 1).
  • Hungry Wolf, Adolf – Good Medicine Thoughts. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 H85 1972].
  • Hurdy, John M. – American Indian Religions. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 H86].
  • Park, Irene A. – Witchcraft, Idolatry and Indian Ways. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 P375 1982].
  • Shaman’s Drum. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection ARC serial no. 889].
  • Steiger, Brad – Medicine Power. [Special Coll., American Religions Collection E98.R3 S75 1974].