Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

Selected Bibliography on Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian

Adam, Hans Christian, ed.  The North American Indian: the Complete Portfolios. Koln and New York: Taschen, 1997.
English translation of a German publication; the photographs are taken from the twenty portfolios and twenty encyclopedic volumes of The North American Indian.

Cardozo, Christopher and Joseph D. Horse Capture. Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
With a forward by N. Scott Momaday.

Curtis, Edward S. Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis.  Edited by Gerald Hausman and Bob Kapoun. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Davis, Barbara A. Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985.

Day, Sara, ed. Heart of the Circle: Photographs by Edward S. Curtis of Native American Women. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1997.
A Library of Congress publication.

Gidley, Mick. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Gidley, Mick, ed. The Vanishing Race: Selections from Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian. New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1977; 1987.
1987 edition includes "preface to the paperback edition."

Graybill, Florence Curtis. Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Lawlor, Laurie. Shadow Catcher: the Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis.  New York: Walker, 1994.

Lyman, Christopher M. The Vanishing Race and Other Illusions: Photographs by Edward S. Curtis.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

Makepeace, Anne. Coming to Light; Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians: a Film. Oley, Pa.: Bullfrog Films, 2000.

Pritzer, Barry. Edward S. Curtis. New York: Crescent Books, 1993.