Facets

1944

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1945

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

1947

#10216

The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1952

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

1957

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1958

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1961

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

1970

#6467.1

American Indian medicine.

Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.

1972

#9917

Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.

1973

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1974

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1975

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1976

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1977

#7977

The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.

"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…

1977

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1979

#7190

Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.

1979

#8595

Uses of plants for the past 500 years.

Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1995

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

1996

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1997

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

1997

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1998

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2000

#9322

Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

2001

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#12092

Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.

2001

#13710

Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2003

#7849

Honoring the medicine: The essential guide to native American healing.

2003

#9669

Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.

http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…

2006

#9911

Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.

2007

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

2007

#9976

African American folk healing.

2008

#12097

Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.

"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…

2009

#12095

Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.

"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…

2009

#13711

The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.