Library Research Guide for History 60o: American Indian History in Four Acts.

North American Indian Thought and Culture contains an enormous collection of Indian autobiographies and other personal writings.

A to Z of American Indian women, by Liz Sonneborn. Rev. ed. New York : Facts On File, 2007, 320 p.
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Native American women: a biographical dictionary, ed. by Gretchen M. Bataille, Laurie Lisa. 2nd ed. NY: Routledge, 2001, 396 p.
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Distinguished Native American spiritual practitioners and healers, by Troy R. Johnson. Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2002, 293 p.  
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Encyclopedia of frontier biography, by Dan L. Thrapp. Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Co., 1988-1994. 4 v.
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Biographical and historical index of American Indians and persons involved in Indian affairs. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1966. 8 v.
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--Bureau of Indian Affairs file of 200,000 cards with references to monographs, periodical articles, government documents, and BIA archival and manuscript material. Includes both Indians and non-Indians, e.g., Indian agents, anthropologists, BIA employees. Most entries 19th century to about 1950. Indexed by tribe and subject.

Biographical dictionary of Indians of the Americas. 2nd ed. Newport Beach, CA: American Indian Publishers, 1991. 2 v.
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Biographical dictionary of American Indian history to 1900, by C. Waldman. Rev. ed. NY: Facts on File, 2001.
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--Over 1000 biographies of about equal numbers of Indians and non-Indians involved in Indian history (anthropologists, photographers, etc.). Good coverage of variant names and translation problems. Short terminal bibliography. Appendixes list persons by tribe, area of activity (scouts, captives, etc.), topic (exploration, mining & gold rushes, relocation, etc.), and historical period. Substantial name/topic index. Indexed in Biography and genealogy master index.

Great North American Indians: profiles in life and leadership, by F. J. Dockstader. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977, 386 p.
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Franz Boas, by Vernon J. Williams (Oxford Bibliographies) is an annotated bibliography of works about Franz Boas, American anthropologist and student of Indian culture.

Biographical Index of Artists in Canada, by Evelyn de R. McMann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, 250 p.
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American engravers upon copper and steel, by David McNeeley Stauffer.  3 vols.  New York: B. Franklin, [1964].
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• vol. 3:  Biographical sketches and check-lists of engravings; a supplement to David McNeely Stauffer's American engravers upon copper and steel, by Mantle Fielding.  --  Internet Archive full text

American women artists:  from early Indian times to the present.  Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein.  NY: Avon; Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.
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Comprehensive chronological survey covers major sculptors and painters.  Organized by historical periods.  Traditional and avant-garde styles represented.  Selected bibliography.  Illustrated.

American women artists, past and present: a selected bibliographic guide.  Eleanor Tufts.  New York: Garland, 1984-1989. (Garland reference library of the humanities; v. 504, 1123) 2 vols.
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Volume one includes 500 well and lesser-known artists born between the late 17th century and the first half of the 20th century.  Covers painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers and conceptual artists.  Volume two comprises 1,200 artists, including women born in the 1950s, and supplements the first volume by augmenting entries.

Artists as illustrators: an international directory with signatures and monograms, 1800 to the present.  John Castagno, ed.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989.
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Artists of early Michigan : a biographical dictionary of artists native to or active in Michigan, 1701-1900 / compiled by Arthur Hopkin Gibson ; research assistants, Beverly Bassett and Jean Spang. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1975, 249 p.
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Artists of the American West: a biographical dictionary, by Doris Ostrander Dawdy. Chicago: Sage Books, [1974-1981]. 2 vols.
Volume one covers approximately 1,350 painters, illustrators or printmakers born before 1900, famous and obscure, who painted in the American West.  3 v..
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Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches., by Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton. 2 v.  5th ed. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1889. 
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Arts in America: a bibliography.  Bernard Karpel, ed. 4 vols. Washington: Archives of American Art, 1979.
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The Illustrated biographical encyclopedia of artists of the American West.  Peggy and Harold Samuels. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.
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Index to artistic biography, by Patricia Havlice.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1973. 2 vols.
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Index to location of artists' biographies, including 64 works in 10 languages.  Basic biographical information, plus variant spellings, pseudonyms and alternate names of artists.  Supplement covers 70 additional titles.  

Internationales Handbuch aller Maler und Bildhauer des 19. Jahrhunderts.  Joachim Busse.  Wiesbaden:  Busse, 1977.
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--Covers approximately 89,000 artists active in the 19th century.  Basic biographical information, with a focus on lesser-known Western artists.  Bibliographical references for each entry.

Jacobsen's biographical index of American artists : artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606 to 2002, edited by Anita Jacobsen. Carrollton, Tex. : A.J. Publications, 2002.  4 v.
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Mallett’s index of artists:  international-biographical including painters, sculptors, illustrators, engravers and etchers of the past and the present, by Daniel Mallett.  New York: R.R. Bowker, 1935.
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Mantle Fielding's dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers.  Glenn B. Opitz, ed.  2nd ed.  Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1986.
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Over 12,000 artists from the 18th  through 20th centuries.  Entries include birth and death dates, exhibitions, collections, education, and awards.  Bibliography.
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The New York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860.  George C. Groce, & David H. Wallace.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. Doe Reference [Biographies] & MAIN N6536.N4
Brief entries on native or visiting foreign-born artists, covering painting, drawing and sketching, sculpture, engraving, lithography, and silhouette cutting.   BGMI
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Who was who in American art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America, ed, by Peter Hasting Falk. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999. 3 vols.
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--Compilation of the original 34 volumes of the American art annual: who's who in art.  Covers artists active between 1898-1947.  Biographical and historical data on nearly 25,000 artists, including craftspeople, photographers, cartoonists, curators, critics and educators. (check, this is for 1st ed.)  BGMI

Women artists in the United States: a selective bibliography and resource guide on the fine and decorative arts, 1750-1986, by Paula L. Chiarmonte.  Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1990.
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