Description: Foundation literature of North America. Indians, Africans, Europeans, and Americans were working out their futures in a complex web of tribal and imperial rivalry and interacting with each other.

The collection has been compiled from:

A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924 by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins
Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn.
The French image of America: a chronological and subject bibliography of French books printed before 1816 relating to the British North American colonies and the United States by Durand Echeverria and Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.
Wagner & Camp's The Plains and the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1800-1865
Robert Rogers Hubach's Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850.
Candiana.org, (www.canadiana.org), a full-text online collection that contains documents about Canada’s history rom the first European contact to the nineteenth century.

Bibliography of Native North Americans, Human Relations Area Files, 1976