General

• Barnett, Homer G. (1938) "The Nature of the Potlatch." American Anthropologist. vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 349-358.
• Bracken, Christopher (1997) The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Cole, Douglas
  Douglas Cole (historian)
  Douglas Lowell Cole was a Canadian historian specializing in art and cultural history, particularly the cultures of Northwest Pacific Coast....
  
  , and Ira Chaikin (1990) An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 0-295-97050-2
• Mauss, Marcel (2002) "The Gift." London: Routledge.
• Rosman, Abraham, and Paula G. Rubel (1971) Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.
• Rubel, Paula G., and Abraham Rosman (1983) "The Evolution of Exchange Structures and Ranking: Some Northwest Coast and Athapaskan Examples." Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-25.

Tlingit 

• de Laguna, Frederica (1972) Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Emmons, George Thornton
  George T. Emmons
  George Thornton Emmons was an ethnographic photographer and a U.S. Navy Lieutenant.He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was George Foster Emmons....
  
   (1991) The Tlingit Indians. Ed. by Frederica de Laguna
  Frederica de Laguna
  Frederica de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were, respectively, Spanish-American and, in Frederica's own words, "Connecticut Yankee". Both received doctorates from Cornell and would later teach philosophy at Bryn...
  
  . Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Kan, Sergei
  Sergei Kan
  Sergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tlingit communities....
  
   (1989) Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. Washington: Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1-56098-309-4.
• Dauenhauer, Nora Marks
  Nora Marks Dauenhauer
  Nora Marks Dauenhauer is an American poet and short-story writer and a scholar of the language and traditions of the Tlingit aboriginal nation in Alaska, of which she is a member...
  
  , and Richard Dauenhauer
  Richard Dauenhauer
  Richard Dauenhauer is an American poet and translator who has married into, and become an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska. His wife is the Tlingit poet and scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer. He won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802...
  
   (eds.) (1990) Haa Tuwanáagu Yís, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2.) Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Haida

• Boelscher, Marianne (1988) The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Stearns, Mary Lee (1981) Haida Culture in Custody: The Masset Band. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Steltzer, Ulli (1984) A Haida Potlatch. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Tsimshianic-speakers

• Adams, John W. (1973) The Gitksan Potlatch: Population Flux, Resource Ownership and Reciprocity. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston of Canada.
• Beynon, William
  William Beynon
  William Beynon was a hereditary chief from the Tsimshian nation and an oral historian who served as ethnographer, translator, and linguistic consultant to many anthropologists....
  
   (2000) Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon’s 1945 Field Notebooks. Ed. by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin
  Marjorie Halpin
  Marjorie Halpin was a U.S.-Canadian anthropologist best known for her work on Northwest Coast art and culture, especially the Tsimshian and Gitksan peoples.She earned an M.A. from George Washington University in 1963...
  
  . Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Boas, Franz (1916) Tsimshian Mythology. Washington: Government Printing Office.
• Daly, Richard (2005) Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• "Fur Trader, A" (Peter Skene Ogden
  Peter Skene Ogden
  Peter Skene Ogden , was a fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia and the American West...
  
  ) (1933) Traits of American Indian Life and Character. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1995. (Ch. 4 is the earliest known description of a Nisga'a potlatch.)
• Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and Society." University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 167-340.
• Glavin, Terry (1990) A Death Feast in Dimlahamid. Vancouver: New Star Books.
• Grumet, Robert Stephen (1975) "Changes in Coast Tsimshian Redistributive Activities in the Fort Simpson Region of British Columbia, 1788-1862." Ethnohistory, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 294-318.
• Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane (1997) Potlatch: A Tsimshian Celebration. New York: Holiday House.
• McDonald, James A. (1990) "Poles, Potlatching, and Public Affairs: The Use of Aboriginal Culture in Development." Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 103-120.
• McDonald, James A. (1995) "Building a Moral Community: Tsimshian Potlatching, Implicit Knowledge and Everyday Experiences." Cultural Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 125-144.
• McDonald, James A. (2003) People of the Robin: The Tsimshian of Kitsumkalum. CCI Press and Alberta ACADRE Network.
• McNeary, Stephen A. (1976) Where Fire Came Down: Social and Economic Life of the Niska. Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
• Pierce, William Henry (1933) From Potlatch to Pulpit. Vancouver: Vancouver Bindery.
• Roth, Christopher F. (2002) "Goods, Names, and Selves: Rethinking the Tsimshian Potlatch." American Ethnologist, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 123-150.
• Seguin, Margaret (ed.) (1984) The Tsimshian: Images of the Past: Views for the Present. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Seguin, Margaret (1985) Interpretive Contexts for Traditional and Current Coast Tsimshian Feasts. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
• Seguin, Margaret (1986) "Understanding Tsimshian 'Potlatch.'" In: Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience, ed. by R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson, pp. 473-500. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
• Vaughn, J. Daniel (1984) "Tsimshian Potlatch and Society: Examining a Structural Analysis." In: The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the North Pacific Coast, ed. by Jay Miller and Carol M. Eastman, pp. 58-68. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Kwakwaka'wakw

Kwakwaka'wakw

The Kwakwaka'wakw are an Indigenous group of First Nations peoples, numbering about 5,500, who live in British Columbia on northern Vancouver Island and the adjoining mainland and islands.Kwakwaka'wakw translates as "Those who speak Kwak'wala", describing the collective nations within the area that...

• Benedict, Ruth (1934) Patterns of Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Boas, Franz (1897) "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians." Pp. 311-738 In: Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895, pp. 311-738. Washington.
• Boas, Franz (1966) Kwakiutl Ethnography. Ed. by Helen Codere. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Codere, Helen (1950) Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare, 1792-1930. New York: J. J. Augustin.
• Codere, Helen (1956) "The Amiable Side of Kwakiutl Life: The Potlatch and the Play Potlatch." American Anthropologist, vol. 28, pp. 334-351.
• Drucker, Philip, and Robert F. Heizer (1967) To Make My Name Good: A Reexamination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Goldman, Irving (1975) The Mouth of Heaven: An Introduction to Kwakiutl Religious Thought. Huntington, N.Y.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company.
• Graeber, David (2001) Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave.
• Harkin, Michael E. (1990) "Mortuary Practices and the Category of the Person among the Heiltsuk." Arctic Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 87-108.
• Masco, Joseph (1995) "'It Is a Strict Law That Bids Us Dance': Cosmologies, Colonialism, Death and Ritual Authority in the Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch, 1849-1922." Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 41-75.
• Olson, Ronald L. (1950) "Black Market in Prerogatives among the Northern Kwakiutl." Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, vol. 1, pp. 78-80.
• Spradley, James P. (1969) Guests Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
• Walens, Stanley (1981) Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Wolf, Eric R. (1999) Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Nuu-chah-nulth

• Clutesi, George (1969) Potlatch. Sidney, B.C.: Gray's Publishing.
• Drucker, Philip (1951) The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes. Washington: United States Government Printing Office.
• Jewitt, John R.
  John R. Jewitt
  John Rodgers Jewitt was an armourer who entered the historical record with his memoirs about the 28 months he spent as a captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth people on the Pacific Northwest Coast of what is now Canada...
  
   (1815) A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives. digital copy
• Sapir, Edward (1916) "The Social Organization of the West Coast Tribes." In: Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1915, third series, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 355-374.

Coast Salish

Coast Salish

Coast Salish languages are a subgroup of the Salishan language family. These languages are spoken by First Nations or Native American peoples inhabiting the territory that is now the southwest coast of British Columbia around the Strait of Georgia and Washington state around Puget Sound...

• Suttles, Wayne (1960) "Affinal Ties, Subsistence, and Prestige among the Coast Salish." American Anthropologist, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 296-305.

Columbia River

• French, Kathrine S. (1955) Culture Segments and Variation in Contemporary Social Ceremonialism on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York.