An ongoing and ever-growing list of reference materials used, in no particular order or Approved Format.  All material was used as a starting point, after which alternate realities twisted facts into plotted fiction.

 

FACING EAST FROM INDIAN COUNTRY, Daniel K. Richter

AMERICAN FRONTIERS, Gregory H. Nobles

THE AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, Daniel J Boorstin

THE GREAT PEACE, Alain Beaulieu and Roland Viau (orig illus by Francis Back)

MYSTIC WARRIORS OF THE PLAINS, Thomas E Mails

THE MIDDLE GROUND, Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, Richard White

KEEPERS OF THE GAME, Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade, Cavin Martin

THE MYTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA, John Bierhorst

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, Edward S. Curtis

LEWIS AND CLARK THROUGH INDIAN EYES, Alvin M Josephy, ed.

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, Judith Nies

NATIVE AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIGHTING SKILLS, Colin F. Taylor

WEST OF THE REVOLUTION: An Uncommon History of 1776, Claudio Saunt

THE SLANG DICTIONARY: or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and fast expressions of high and low society, John Camden Hotten

Tardieu, Jean-Pierre. “Cimarrón-Maroon-Marron: An Epistemological Note.” Outre-Mers: Revue d‘Histoire 94.350–351 (2006): 237–247.

CORNROWS, by Camille Yarbrough

 

websites

David Rumsey Map Collection

North American English Dialects

Indian Nations – Oklahoma Archive

Native Plant Information Network

Native Languages of the Americas

Buffalo Bill Center of the West – McCracken Research Library

Randall Made Knives

The Raging Pelican, Écoulement no.4

The Cartographer’s Guild

Route of the DeSoto Expedition, via the Encyclopedia of Arkansas

LSU AgCenter Guide to Native Trees for Louisiana