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We have a story to tell: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region

From the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

  • Feest, Christian and Bruce G. Trigger (ed.), “Nanticoke and Neighbouring Tribes,” in Handbook of North American Indians 15(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
  • Feest, Christian and Bruce G. Trigger (ed.), “North Carolina Algonquians,” in Handbook of North American Indians 15(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
  • Feest, Christian and Bruce G. Trigger (ed.), “Virginia Algonquians,” in Handbook of North American Indians 15(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
  • Goddard, Ives and Bruce G. Trigger (ed.), “Eastern Algonquian Languages,” in Handbook of North American Indians 15(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978).
  • Hall, Clayton Colman, Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633–1684 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910).
  • Harriot, Thomas, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The Complete 1590 Theodor De Bry Edition (New York: Dover Publications, 1972).
  • Moretti-Langholtz, Danielle and Sandra F. Waugaman, We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories (Richmond, Va.: Palari Publishing, 2006).
  • Porter, Frank, The Nanticoke (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987).
  • Potter, Stephen R., Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Valley (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1993).
  • Rountree, Helen C., Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990).
  • Rountree, Helen C., The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).
  • Rountree, Helen C. and Thomas E. Davidson, Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1997).
  • Speck, Frank G., “Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia,” in Indian Notes and Monographs 1:5(New York: Heye Foundation, 1919).
  • Speck, Frank G., Indians of the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Baltimore, Md.: Eastern Shore Society of Baltimore City, 1922).
  • Speck, Frank G., The Nanticoke and the Conoy Indians (Wilmington, Del.: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1927).
  • Speck, Frank G., “The Rappahannock Indians of Virginia,” in Indian Notes and Monographs 5:3(New York: Heye Foundation, 1925).
  • Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).
  • Tayac, Gabrielle, To Speak with One Voice (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 1999).
  • Thornton, Russell, American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).
  • Weslager, C. A., The Delaware Indian Westward Migration (Wallingford, Pa.: Middle Atlantic Press, 1978).
  • Weslager, C. A., The Nanticoke Indians, Past and Present (Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1983).
  • Weslager, C. A., The Nanticoke Indians: A Refugee Tribal Group of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1948).