Native American People
Indians of the Northwest

Bibliography, Links, Research
Myths, Legends, Folklore

By Mike Garofalo

 

 

American Indian Literature: An Anthology. By Alan R. Velie. University of Oklahoma, 1991, 384 pages. Paperback, VSCL.


American Indian Myths and Legends. Selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. Pantheon Books, 1984, bibliography, 624 pages. Used, Vancouver, VSCL.


American Indians, Native Americans, Northwest. Native American Stories, Poetry, Myths, Legends Northwest Native Peoples. By Michael P. Garofalo. Bibliography, notes, research, and travels in Washington State, Oregon, Northern California, and British Columbia.


Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.
By Robin Wall Kimmerer.  Milkweed Editions, 2013, 390 pages.  VSCL.


California Indians and their Environment: An Introduction. By Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish. University of California Press, 2009, index, bibliography, 49 pages. Used, Vancouver, VSCL.


Coast Salish: Their Art and Culture. By Reg Ashwell and David Hancock. TK, 2006, 95 pages. VSCL.


Cultures of the North Pacific Coast. By Philip Drucker. Chandler, 1965, index, 243 pages. VSCL.


Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation. By Jamie Sams. Harper San Francisco, 1998, index, glossary, 276 pages. Used, Vanouver, VSCL.


Honne, The Spirit of the Chelalis. Narrated by George Sanders (1880-1959). The Indian Interpretation of the Origin of the People and Animals. Collected and arranged by Katherine Van Winkle Palmer. Introduction by Jay Miller. University of Nebraska Press, 2012,206 pages. Stories collected in the 1920's. VSCL.


Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest By Ella E. Clark. Illustrated by Robert Bruce Inverarity. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1953, 2003. Glossary, 225 pages. ISBN: 9780520239265. VSCL.


The Indian Sign Language. By W. P. Clark. University of Nebraska Press, 1982, index, 443 pages. VSCPL.


Indians, Native Americans, Northwest. Native American Stories, Poetry, Myths, Legends. Northwest Native Peoples. By Michael P. Garofalo. Bibliography, notes, research, and travels in Washington State, Oregon, Northern California, and British Columbia.


Legends of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. By Roy I. Wilson. Cowlitz Indian Tribe, 1998, 401 pages. VSCL.


Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Selected by Katharine Berry Judson. Introduction by Jay Miller. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 145 pages. ISBN: 0803275951. VSCL.


Native Indian Cultures: Southwestern Washington State. By Mike Garofalo. Bibliography, Reading Lists, Links, Research, Notes. Coastal Washington, Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, Lower Columbia River, Cowlitz River, Chelais River.


The People Are Dancing Again. The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon. By Charles Wilkinson. University of Washington Press, 564 pages, 2010, Detailed Notes, bibliography, appendices. Used, Robert's, VSCPL.


Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americans. Edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg. Doubleday, 1972, notes, 475 pages. VSCPL.


Southwestern Washington State: Bibliography, Links, Travel, Research, History, Coastal Life, Natural History. By Mike Garofalo.


When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through:
A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. Edited by Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and contributing editors. Norton, 2020, 458 pages. Index, sources, biographical information about authors, introductions to poems collected by geographical regions. United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. Paperback, VSCL.


Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River Country. By Jack Nisbet. Sasquatch Books, 2003, 246 pages. FVRL Library Copy.

 

 

 

By Mike Garofalo
Poetry, Indexes, Anthologies


25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

At the Edges of the West, Volume 1
Highway 101 and Hwy 1: Pacific Coast

The Gushen Grove Sonnets

Bundled Up: Tanka Poetry

At the Edges of the West, Volume 2
Highway 99 and Interstate 5

Cuttings: Haiku

Poetry Research by Mike Garofalo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Garofalo lives in Vancouver, Washington.
He worked for 50 years in city and county
public libraries, and in elementary schools.
He graduated with degrees in philosophy,
library science, and education. He has been
a web publisher since 1998.

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25 Steps and Beyond: Collected Works

Text Art and Concrete Poetry

 

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