Northwestern Native Americans

This index has links to resources at Sacred-texts about the religion, mythology, folklore and spiritual practices of Native Americans of the Northwest region, which stretches from Northern California to British Columbia and Southern Alaska.

Coos Texts by Leo Frachtenberg. [1913]
(Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. I.)

Chinook Texts by Franz Boas. [1894]
(U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no 20.)

Kwakiutl Tales by Franz Boas. [1910]
(Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. II.)

Haida Songs by John R. Swanton. [1912]
(Publications of the American Ethnological Society Volume III, Part 1.)

Tsimshian Texts (Nass River Dialect) by Franz Boas. [1902]
(U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 27.)

Tsimshian Texts (New Series) by Franz Boas. [1912]
(Publications of the American Ethnological Society Volume III, Part 2.)

Tlingit Myths and Texts by John R. Swanton. [1909]
(U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 39.)

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians
by Amy Lowell [1920] 47,377 bytes