1945 STEARN, Allen Edwin (1894 – ); STEARN, Esther Wagner
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
GMN 13801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16088
1947 ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12405
1957 TRAIN, Percy; ARCHER, William Andrew (1894 – 1973); HEINRICHS, James R.
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.)
GMN 9272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11454
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
GMN 8603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10780
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
1961 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
GMN 10855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13051
1970 VOGEL, Virgil J. (1918 – 1994)
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
GMN 6467.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7641
1972 MCKECHNIE, Robert E. (1861 – 1944)
Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
GMN 9917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12105
1973 BLACK, Meredith Jean
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
GMN 9274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11456
1973 HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
GMN 10735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12929
1974 HELLSON, John C.
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
GMN 9285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11467
1975 HAMEL, Paul B.; CHILTOSKY, Mary U.
Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.
GMN 9270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11452
1976 OTT, Jonathan (1949 – )
Hallucinogenic plants of North America.
GMN 11035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13231
1977 DENEVAN, William Maxfield (1931 – )
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…
GMN 7977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10153
1979 CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
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.
GMN 7190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9357
1979 ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte
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).
GMN 8595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10772
1980 HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
GMN 10736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12930
1983 KUNITZ, Stephen J. (1938 – )
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
GMN 10217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12406
1988 FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
GMN 9291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11473
1990 LEWIS, Thomas H.
The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
GMN 10874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13070
1994 YOUNG, T. Kue
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
GMN 10084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12273
1995 MANCALL, Peter C. (1959 – )
Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.
GMN 9630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11817
1996 LYON, William S.
Encyclopedia of native American healing.
GMN 7002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9168
1997 HERRICK, James W.
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…
GMN 8544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10721
1997 MEHL-MADRONA, Lewis E. (1954 – )
Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.
GMN 9936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12124
1998 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
Native American ethnobotany.
Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.
GMN 7869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10041
1999 GARIBALDI, Ann
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.
GMN 9292 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11474
2000 STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – ); HAINES, Michael R.
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
GMN 7976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10152
2000 MINNIS, Paul E. (1951 – ); ELISENS, Wayne J. (1948 – )
Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.
GMN 9322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11504
2001 SNOW, Alice Micco (1922 – 2008); STANS, Susan Enns
Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.
GMN 9280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11462
2001 LUX, Maureen Katherine (1956 – )
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…
GMN 10193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12382
2001 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – ); WEINER, Diane
Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.
GMN 12092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14301
2001 ROBERTSON, Roland G.
Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
GMN 13710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15994
2002 BAD HAND, Howard P.
Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.
Medical rituals of the Lacota people.
GMN 10410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12603
2003 COHEN, Kenneth "Bear Hawk"
Honoring the medicine: The essential guide to native American healing.
GMN 7849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10021
2003 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
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…
GMN 9669 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11856
2007 KELTON, Paul
Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
GMN 7506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9678
2008 LEWIS, David Jr.; JORDAN, Ann T.
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…
GMN 12097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14306
2009 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – ); MCCOY, Robert R.
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…
GMN 12095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14304
2009 MANN, Barbara Alice (1947 – )
The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
GMN 13711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15995
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2015 WILLIER, Russell; YOUNG, David Earl; ROGERS, Robert Dale
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
GMN 10275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12466
2015 KELTON, Paul; CAMERON, Catherine M.; SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
GMN 10341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12533
2017 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – )
American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
GMN 12096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14305
2019 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – )
Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.
"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…
GMN 12094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14303
2021 TRAFZER, Clifford E. (1949 – )
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
GMN 13271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15537