Researching Native Americans & architecture: General resources

Atkin, Tony, & Carol Herselle Krinsky, “Cultural identity in modern Native American architecture: a case study,” Journal of Architectural Education, #4, 1996, p. 237–245 (PDF via Jstor)

Chapman, Ron (Director), From Earth to Sky, Chapman Productions, 2021 (presented by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, December 10, 2021 via YouTube)

Dalla Costa, Wanda, "Indigenous futurity and architecture: rewriting the urban narrative," Architecture Australia, March/April 2020, p.56-58

Knopf, Kerstin, “The Turn Toward the Indigenous: Knowledge Systems and Practices in the Academy,” Amerikastudien / American Studies, Vol.60, #2/3, 2015, p.179–200 (PDF via Jstor)

Kolowratnik, Nina Valerie, The language of secret proof : indigenous truth and representation, Sternberg Press, NA2706.U6 K65 2019

Krinsky, Carol Herselle, Contemporary Native American Architecture, Oxford University Press, E98.A63K75 1996

Larson, Sidner, "Native American aesthetics: an attitude of relationship," MELUS (Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States), #3, 1991,  p. 53-67 (PDF via Jstor) 

Malnar, Joy Monice, New architecture on indigenous lands, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.A58M35 2013

Marshall, Anne Lawrason, "Indigenous architecture: envisioning, designing, and building the Museum at Warm Springs," Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University, May 2012 (Downloadable PDF via ASU Library KEEP)

McGaw, Janet, et al, “Roaming: Therapeutic and Design Practices for Indigenous Healing,” Journal of Architectural Education 78, #1, 2024, p.26–41 (Available via Taylor & Francis Online)

Novakovic, Stefan, "Indigenous campus: truth and reconciliation in the built environment," Azure, September 30, 2022

Osbourne, Catherine, "Unceded is Canada's exploration of Indigenous architecture," Azure, April 30, 2018

"Four case studies exemplifying best practices in architectural co-design and building with First Nations," Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Wahpasiw, Omeasoo, "Learning from indigenous consultants : how can indigenous design thinking inform architecture?" Canadian Architect, September 2020, p.36-38

Alvarez, Annette, "Native American tribes and economic development," Urban land, March-April, 2011, p.70-77

Gorman, Joshua M., Building a nation : Chickasaw museums and the construction of history and heritage, University of Alabama Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Lawlor, Mary, Public Native America: tribal self-representation in casinos, museums, and powows, Rutgers University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Walker, Ryan, et al., Reclaiming indigenous planning, McGill-Queen's University Press, HN110.Z9C699 2013

Zaferatos, Nicholas Christos, Planning the American Indian reservation: from theory to empowerment, Syracuse University Press, 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

National Indian Gaming Association (Industry association)

National Indian Gaming Commission (U.S. federal agency)

Schaap, James I., “The growth of the Native American gaming industry: what has the past provided, and what does the future hold?” American Indian Quarterly, #3, 2010, p. 365-389 (PDF via Jstor)

Stein, Wayne J., “Gaming: The Apex of a Long Struggle,” Wicazo Sa Review, Spring 1998, v.13, #1, pp. 73-91 (PDF via Jstor)

Wilmer, Franke, “Indian gaming: players and stakes,” Wicazo Sa Review, #1, 1997, p. 89-114 (PDF via Jstor)

American Indian Quarterly (issues from 1974, with a 5-year delay, are available via Jstor)

Banner, Stuart, How the Indians lost their land: law and power on the frontier, Harvard University Press, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Bruyneel, Kevin, Third Space of sovereignty: the postcolonial politics of U.S.-Indigenous relations, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Cooper, Danika, "Spatializing reparations: mapping reparative futures," Journal of Architectural Education, Vol.77, #1, Spring 2023, p.66-86

Green, Christopher T., “A stage set for assimilation: the model Indian school at the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Winterthur Portfolio, Vol.51, #2/3, 2017, p.95–133 (PDF via Jstor)

King, Thomas, The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America, University of Minnesota Press, 2013

“Representing Native American History,” The Public Historian, Autumn 1996 (Theme issue, PDFs available via Jstor)

Neihardt, John G., Black Elk speaks: the complete edition, Bison Books, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Solnit, Rebecca, “The struggle of dawning intelligence: on monuments and native Americans,” Harvard design magazine, Fall 1999, p.52-57

Wicazo Sa Review (journal of American Indian Studies; issues from 1985, with a 3-year delay, are available via Jstor)

Clapperton, Jonathan, “Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Politics of Postcolonial Writing,” RCC Perspectives, #4, 2016, p.9–16 (PDF via Jstor)

Edington, John M., Indigenous environmental knowledge : reappraisal, Springer International Publishing AG, 2017 (via Ebook Central)

Edmunds, David S., et al, “Tribal Housing, Codesign, and Cultural Sovereignty,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol.38, #6, 2013, p.801–28 (PDF via Jstor)

Kolowratnik, Nina Valerie, The language of secret proof : indigenous truth and representation, Sternberg Press, NA2706.U6 K65 2019

Pauketat, Timothy R., An archaeology of the cosmos : rethinking agency and religion in ancient America, Routledge, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

"The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge," American Indian Quarterly, Vol.28, #3/4, 2004 (Special issue via Jstor)

Van Dyke, Ruth M. & Carrie C. Heitman (editors), The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy, University Press of Colorado, 2021 (See "III. Indigenous Perspectives") (Open access book via Jstor)

Wahpasiw, Omeasoo, "Learning from Indigenous consultants : how can Indigenous design thinking inform architecture?" Canadian Architect, September 2020, p.36-38

Watson, Julia, Lo-TEK : design by radical Indigenism, Taschen, NA208 .W38 2020

Anderson, M. Kat, Tending the wild: Native American knowledge and the management of California's natural resources, University of California Press, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Ardvidson, Adam Regn, "Words lost and found: as tribes become increasingly active in climate policy, traditional planning learns to adapt," Landscape architecture magazine, April 2021, p.58-66

Blue Spruce, Duane, & Tanya Thrasher (Editors), The Land has memory: Indigenous knowledge, Native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, University of North Carolina Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Fish, Adam, "Native American sacred places and the language of capitalism," Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, #1, 2005, p. 40-49 (PDF via Jstor)

Schweninger, Lee, Listening to the land: Native American literary responses to the landscape, University of Georgia Press, 2008. (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Thornton, Thomas F, "Anthropological studies of Native American place naming," American Indian Quarterly, #2, 1997, p. 209-228 (PDF via Jstor)

Vale, Thomas (Editor), Fire, Native Peoples, and the natural landscape, Island Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

(See also Bark architecture, California earth lodge, California plank house, Fiber houses, Roundhouses)

Akins, Damon B. & William J. Bauer, Jr., We are the land : a history of Native California, University of California Press, E78.C15 A487 2021

Bauer, William J., Jr., California through Native eyes : reclaiming history, University of Washington Press, E78.C15 B3225 2016

Baumgardner, Frank H., Killing for land in early California: Native American blood at Round Valley, 1856-1863, Algora Publishing, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Daly, Heather Ponchetti, “Fractured relations at home: The 1953 Termination Act's effect on tribal relations throughout Southern California Indian Country,” American Indian Quarterly, #4, 2009, p. 427-439 (PDF via Jstor)

Goldberg, Carole & Duane Champagne, “Ramona redeemed? the rise of tribal political power in California,” Wicazo Sa Review, #1, 2002, p. 43-63 (PDF via Jstor)

Haas, Lisbeth, Saints and citizens: indigenous histories of colonial missions and Mexican California, University of California Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Lake, Alison, Colonial rosary: Spanish and Indian missions of California, Swallow Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Lightfoot, Kent & Otis Parrish, California Indians and their environment: an introduction (California natural history guides, v. 96), University of California Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Lindsay, Brendan C., Murder state: California's Native American genocide, 1846-1873, University of Nebraska Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Luthin, Herbert W., et al., Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs, University of California Press, 2001 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

McCawley, William, First Angelinos: the Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles, Ballena Press, E99.G15 M34 1996

Rizzo-Martinez, Martin, We Are Not Animals : Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, University of Nebraska Press, 2022 (E-book via Proquest Ebook Central) 

Trafzer, Clifford E. & Joel R. Hyer, Exterminate them: written accounts of the murder, rape and enslavement of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush, 1848-1868, Michigan State University Pres, 1999 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Weibel-Orlando, Joan, Indian country, L.A.: maintaining ethnic community in complex society, University of Illinois Press, E78.C15W48 1991

Blue Spruce, Duane & Tanya Thrasher (editors), The land has memory : indigenous knowledge, native landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Chapel Hill, 2008 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Denzin, Norman K., Indians on display : global commodification of native America in performance, art, and museums, Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Gorman, Joshua M., Building a nation : Chickasaw museums and the construction of history and heritage, University of Alabama Press, 2011 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Lonetree, Amy, Decolonizing museums : representing native America in national and tribal museums, University of North Carolina Press, 2012 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Marshall, Anne Lawrason, "Indigenous architecture: envisioning, designing, and building the Museum at Warm Springs," Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University, May 2012 (downloadable PDF via ASU Library KEEP)

Peers, Laura L. & Alison K. Brown (editors), Museums and source communities : a Routledge reader, Routledge, 2003 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Pieris, Anoma, Indigenous cultural centers and museums : an illustrated international survey, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Baires, Sarah, "Technologies and stewardship of a Native American city," TAD: Technology, Architecture + Design, Vol.6, #1, Spring 2022, p.5-9

Cahokia Mounds, Illinois

Fagan, Brian M., Ancient North America: the archaeology of a continent, Thames & Hudson, E71.F34 1995

Hopeton Earthworks and Hopewell Culture, Ohio

Lewis, R. Barry, et al., Mississippian towns and sacred spaces: searching for an architectural grammar, University Alabama Press E99.M6815 M575 1998 (also available as ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Morgan, William N., Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States, MIT Press, E98.A63 M67

Moundville Archaeolgical Park, Alabama

Ohio Historical Society Archaeology portal

Poverty Point, Louisiana

Steere, Benjamin A., The archaeology of houses and households in the Native Southeast, University of Alabama Press, 2017 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Indigenous place names project, Anchorage Park Foundation

Miller, James, "Indigenous Placemaking in the Climate Diaspora : Rimajol Resettlement in the U.S.," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review,  Spring 2021, p.38–52 (PDF via Jstor)

Pritchard, Gary, "Indigenous place making & ethical space," slide presentation published by the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai, Decolonizing methodologies : research and Indigenous peoples, Zed Books, GN380 .S65 2012

Wilson, Shawn, Research is ceremony : indigenous research methods, Fernwood Publishing, GN380 .W554 2008

ARCTIC

(See also the Barabara, Iglu, Kashim, and Pole house)

Arctic Studies Center, Smithonian Museum of Natural History

Harrington, Richard, “Igloo,” Nest, #2, Fall 1998, p. 58-65

Steltzer, Ulli, Building an igloo, H. Holt, E99.E7S8235 1995

Larmour, W. T., Inunnit: the art of the Canadian Eskimo, Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, E99.E7L3

NORTHWEST 

(See also the Mat house, Pit house, Plank house, Shed house)

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest digital image collection, Library of Congress & University of Washington

Halpin, Marjorie M., Totem poles: an illustrated guide, University of British Columbia Press, E98.T65

Holm, Bill, Northwest coast Indian art; an analysis of form, University of Washington Press, E78.N78 H6

Stewart, Hilary, Looking at Indian art of the Northwest Coast, Douglas & McIntyre, E78.N78S764 1979

PLAINS

(See also the Earthlodge, Grass house, Sweathouses, Tepees, Tipi)

Indian peoples of the Northern Great Plains digital image collection, Library of Congress & Montana State University

Laubin, Reginald, Indian Tipi: its history, construction, and use, University of Oklahoma Press, E98.D9L3 1977

Oldershaw, Barbara, “Blackfeet American Indian women: builder of the tribe,” Places, v. 4, #1, 1987, p. 48-59

Star, Blue Star, Building Tipis & yurts: authentic designs for circular shelters, Lark, TH4870.S73 1995

SOUTHWEST

(See also the Hogan, Ki, Pueblo, Wikiup)

Anderson, Douglas, et al., Chaco Canyon: center of a culture, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, E99.P9.A315 1981

Blackgoat, Geraldene, "Navajo ritual space in housing," The Funambulist, October 23, 2018 (via thefunambulist.net)

Bunting, Bainbridge, Taos Adobes, Museum of New Mexico Press, NA7235.N62T364 1992

Cameron, Catherine M., Hopi Dwellings: Architectural Change at Orayvi, University of Arizona Press, E99.H7C36 1999

Ellis, Reuben J., Stories and stone: writing the ancestral Pueblo homeland, University of Arizona Press, PS566.S86 2004

Ferguson, William M., Anasazi ruins of the Southwest in color, University of New Mexico Press, E99.P9F47 1987

Jett, Stephen C. & Virginia E. Spencer, Navajo architecture: forms, history, distributions, University of Arizona Press, E99.N3J39

Johnson, Melvin & Diana Johnson, “The Anasazi Great House,” Perspecta, #13/14, 1971, p. 366-371 (PDF via Jstor)

Kelley, Klara B., Navajo sacred places, Indiana University Press, E99.N3K3355 1994

Mesa Verde National Park

Morgan, William N., Ancient architecture of the Southwest, University of Texas Press, E78.S7M756 1994

Morrow, Baker H., et al., Anasazi Architecture and American Design, University of New Mexico Press, E99.P9A48 1997

“Navajo school, a study in community control,” Architectural Forum, September 1972

Noble, David Grant, New light on Chaco Canyon, School of American Research Press, E99.P9 N278 1984

Rusk, Jack, "There is a light that never goes out: changing patterns of occupation at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon," AA files, 2021, #78, p.160-166

Sanford, Trent Elwood, The architecture of the Southwest : Indian, Spanish, American, W. W. Norton, NA727.S26 1997

Scully, Vincent, Pueblo: mountain, village, dance, Viking, E99.P9 S37 1989

Van Dyke, Ruth M. & Carrie C. Heitman (editors), The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy, University Press of Colorado, 2021 (open access book via Jstor)