Preserving our Literary Heritage

Literature on the Amerindians of Guyana
Part Two The response to my column is heartening, to say the least, overwhelming at times. This is a public thank you to all who have supplied related information and material.
In response to a previous list on the subject, Mr. Gordon Forte has supplied the following, acknowledging this is not a comprehensive list. 
Selections from a Bibliography on Guyanese Amerindians, 1841-1998
Adams, Kathleen J.
1981b    The Narrative of a Barama River Carib Youth. Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 4(1, 2):39-50.
1983-84    The Premise of Equality in Carib Societies. Antropológica 59-62: 299-308.
Amerindian Lands Commission.
1969    Report by the Amerindian Lands Commission. Georgetown.
Amerindian Research Unit
1992    The Material Culture of the Wapishana of the South Rupununi Savannahs in 1989. Georgetown: University of Guyana. 92p.
1993    Situation Analysis of the Status of Children and Women in the Guyana Amazon. Report commissioned by UNICEF. Georgetown.
Anderson, C. Wilgress
1909    The Aboriginal Indians. Handbook of British Guiana. G.D. Bagley (ed), pp. 105-114.  Georgetown,
Anthon, Michael
1957    The Kanaima. Timehri, 5th series, 36: 61-65.
Atkinson, H.
1990    The History of the Catholic Church in Santa Rosa in the North-west District of Guyana 1817-1990. NSJ.
Baldwin, Richard
1946    The Rupununi Record. Georgetown: The Daily Argosy. Reprinted 1964.
1948    Rupununi and its Neighbour — Rio Branco. Timehri 28: 47–53.
Bannister, H. A.
1951    Amerindian Education in British Guiana. Timehri 30: 57 -59.
Benjamin, A. J. McR
1988    The Guyana Arawaks in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Proceedings of the Conference on the Arawaks of Guyana. Georgetown: University of Guyana, 5-21.
1992    A Preliminary Look at the Free Amerindians and the Dutch Plantation System in Guyana during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Guyana Historical Journal 4/ 5: 1 -21. Georgetown.
Benjamin, Joel
1991    The Arawak Language in Guyana and adjacent territories. Archaeology and Anthropology 8: 7-112.
Bennett, Gordon, Audrey Butt Colson and Stewart Wavell, eds.
1978    The Damned: The Plight of the Akawaio Indians of Guyana. London: Survival International Document 6.
Bennett, John P.
1986    The Arawak Language in Guyanese Culture. Georgetown: Department of Culture.
1989    An Arawak English Dictionary’. Archaeology and Anthropology 6: (1,2).
1995    Twenty-Eight Lessons in Loko (Arawak): A Teaching Guide. Georgetown: Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology.
Bennett, John P. and Richard Hart
1991    Kabethechino: a correspondence on Arawak. Edited by Janette Forte. Georgetown: Demerara Publishers Ltd.
Bishop, Andrew R.
1996    Baseline Document on Land Use in Guyana. Georgetown: Govt. of Guyana, University of Guyana, The Carter Center, Guyana Environmental Monitoring and Conservation Organisation, World Resources Institute.
Brana-Shute, Gary
1995    Indigenous Peoples of Guyana: Action Report. Washington: The World Bank.
British Guiana
1939    The Royal Commission in British Guiana. Georgetown: The Daily Chronicle Ltd.
1946    Interim Report by the Aboriginal Indian Committee (The Green Committee).
1948    Report of the Rupununi Land Tenure Committee.
1965    Report of the British Guiana Independence Conference.
Brotherston, Gordon
1979a    What is Written in Timehri? Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 2(l): 5-9.
Butt, Audrey J.
1960    The Birth of a Religion: the origins of a semi-Christian religion among the Akawaio. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 90 (1): 66-106. Reprinted in Timehri 38 and 39.
1969    Land Use and Social Organisation of Tropical Forest Peoples of the Guianas. Human Ecology in the Tropics, pp. 33-49.  J.P. Garlick, ed. Pergamon Press.
Reprinted in Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology 16: 1-17. J.P. Garlick and R.W.J. Keay (eds.). London: Taylor and Francis, 1977.
Butt Colson, Audrey
1971    Comparative Studies of the Social Structure of Guiana Indians and the Problem of Acculturation. The Ongoing Evolution of Latin American Populations. pp. 62–91. Francisco M. Salzano, ed. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.
1971    Hallelujah among the Patamona Indians. Antropológica 28: 25 -58.
1973    Inter-tribal trade in the Guiana Highlands. Antropológica 34: 5-70.
1981    Review of Waramadong: A case study for Amerindian resettlement in the Upper Mazaruni area, Guyana. A. Fournier, ed. Georgetown: Upper Mazaruni Development Authority, 1979. Survival International Review 6 (5-6), 37 & 38: 84-86.
1981    Review of W. Henningsgaard, The Akawaio, the Upper Mazaruni Hydroelectric Project and National Development in Guyana. Cultural Survival Inc. Occasional Paper 4, 1981. Survival International Review 6 (5-6), 37 & 38: 86-87.
Charette, Elizabeth
1979    Historical Sketches of the Warau People. Bulletin of the Amerindian Languages Project 3 (5): 19-45.
1980    A short dictionary of the Warau language of Guyana. Georgetown: University of Guyana Amerindian Languages Project. Walter F. Edwards, ed.
Clementi, Cecil
1917    A Journey to Mount Roraima across the savannah highlands of British Guiana. Timehri 4: 1–26.
Dorman, John R.
1993    Mines over matter. Guyana Review 9: 14-15. Georgetown.
Eden, Michael J.
1966    Some problems of Amerindian development in the Rupununi District. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 42: 36-40.
Edwards, Walter F.
1980    Focus on Amerindians. University of Guyana: Amerindian Languages Project.
Edwards, Walter F. and Kean Gibson
1978    A brief history of Amerindians in Guyana. Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics. Bridgetown: University of the West Indies.
Environmental Resources Management
1995    Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: Linden–Lethem Road. London.
Evans, Clifford and B.J. Meggers
1955    Preliminary Results of Archaeological Investigations in British Guiana. Timehri, 5th series, 34: 5-26.
1958a    Life among the Waiwai Indians. The National Geographic Magazine 107: 329-346.
1960    Archaeological Investigations in British Guiana. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 177. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
1964    British Guiana Archaeology: A Return to Original Interpretations. American  Antiquity. 30:83-84.
Fanshawe, Dennys Basil
1949    Glossary of Arawak Names in Natural History. International Journal of American Linguistics 15(1): 57-74.
1996    The Fanshawe-Boyan Glossary of Arawak Names in Natural History. Janette Forte, ed. Georgetown: University of Guyana.
Fanshawe, D.B. and C. Swabey
1948    Botanical and Ecological Exploration in Guiana. Timehri 28: 19–23.
Forte, Janette
1990    The Populations of Guyanese Amerindian Settlements in the 1980s. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Occasional Publications of the Amerindian Research Unit.
1990    The case of ‘The Barama River Caribs of Guyana Restudied.’ Social and Economic Studies 39: 1: 203-217. Kingston: University of the West Indies.
1993    Amerindians and Poverty. Poverty in Guyana: Finding Solutions. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Institute of Development Studies.
1995    A Selective Reading List on Guyanese Amerindians. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Occasional Publications of the Amerindian Research Unit.
1996a    About Guyanese Amerindians. Self-published, Georgetown.
1996b    Thinking About Amerindians. Self-published, Georgetown.
Forte, Janette, ed.
1994    Amirang: Proceedings of the National Conference of Amerindian Representatives. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Amerindian Research Unit.
1995    Report of the UNDP Consultation on Indigenous Peoples and National Development held at Beterverwagting, Guyana on February 14-15, 1995. Georgetown: University of Guyana, Amerindian Research Unit.
1996    Makushipe Komanto Iseru: Sustaining Makushi Way of Life. Bina Hill, Rupununi: North Rupununi District Development Board.
Forte, Janette and Ian Melville, eds.
1989    Amerindian Testimonies. Illustrated by Stephanie Correia. Boise: Boise State University Press.
Forte, Janette and Laureen Pierre
1994    Baseline information on Amerindian Communities in Region 9. Report produced for the Guyana Organisation of Indigenous Peoples. 62 pages.
Fox, Desrey and George K. Danns
1993    The Indigenous Condition in Guyana: a Situation Analysis of the Mabura Great Falls Community. Georgetown: University of Guyana.
Giglioli, George
1951    The Amerindians of the Guiana highlands and savannahs: A story in photographs. Georgetown: The Chronicle Christmas Annual.
1968    Malaria in the American Indian, Pan American Health Organization, Scientific Publications 165: 104 -113.
Goodall, Edward A.
1977     Sketches of Amerindian tribes 1841-1843. Ed. and introduced by M.N. Menezes. London: British Museum & National Commission for the Acquisition, Preservation and Republication of Research Materials on Guyana.
Great Britain
1945    The West India Royal Commission Report, 1938-39. London:HMSO.
Guppy, Nicholas
1958    Wai-Wai: Through the Forests North of the Amazon. London: John Murray.
Guyana
1969    Report of the First Conference of Amerindian Leaders.
1970    Report of the Second Conference of Amerindian Leaders.
1970    A Brief Outline of the Progress of Integration in Guyana. Georgetown: Ministry of Information and Culture.
1971    Ministry of National Development. Third Conference of Amerindian Leaders. 30th -31st October, 1971. Georgetown: Interior Development Department.
1976    Ministry of Regional Development. Report of the Fourth Conference of Amerindian Captains and Leaders. 2nd -6th April, 1976.
Guyana. Ministry of National Development and Agriculture
1974    Gazetteer of Guyana. Georgetown: Ministry of National Development and Agriculture, Lands and Surveys Department.
Hanif, Mahamad
1966    Amerindian art. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 42: 29–30.
1967    Petroglyphs in the Rupununi. Timehri. 43:19-27.
Henfrey, Colin
1964    The Gentle People. London: Hutchinson.
1965    Through Indian Eyes: A Journey among the Indian Tribes of Guiana. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
1995    Democracy and the Sustainability of Livelihoods and Natural Resources: The issue currently underlying Amerindian development options. Situation Analysis: Indigenous Use of the Forest with Emphasis on Region 1. Amerindian Research Unit, University of Guyana: 72-75.
Henningsgaard, William
1981    The Akawaio, The Upper Mazaruni Hydroelectric Project and National Development in Guyana. Cambridge: Cultural Survival.
Hilhouse, William
1978    Indian Notices. Georgetown: National Commission for Research Materials.
Jones, Wayne
1981    Towards Further Amerindian Integration and Development: The Persuasive Approach. Georgetown: Ministry of Information.
Kenswil, F.W.
1946    Children of Silence. An Account of the Aboriginal Indians of the Upper Mazaruni River, British Guiana. Georgetown.
King, K.F.S.
1968    Land and People in Guyana. Oxford: Commonwealth Forestry Institute.
Kloos, Peter
1972    Amerindians of Guyana. In The Situation of the Indian in South America. W. Dostal (ed). pp. 343-47. Geneva: World Council of Churches.
Lancaster, Alan
1993    The Unconquered Wilderness: A Historical Analysis of the Failure to Open the Hinterland of British Guiana. Georgetown: History Gazette, No. 58.
Lord, W.T.
1944    Exploring in British Guiana. Timehri 26: 35–41.
Mangar, Tota C
1992    The Rural and Interior Development Policy of Henry Irving, 1882 -1887. University of Guyana: History Gazette 42.
McCann, Terence
1969    The Rupununi, its peoples and its problems. New World  1 (1): 30-31. Georgetown.
McTurk, Michael
1952    Amerindians and the State.  Timehri 31: 8-15.     
Meggers, B.J.
1971    Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.
1992    Amazonia: Real or Counterfeit Paradise? The Review of Archaeology 13(2): 25-40.
Menezes, Mary Noel
1977    British Policy towards the Amerindians in British Guiana, 1803 -1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
1979    The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-1873 A Documentary History. London: Frank Cass.
1982    The Amerindians and the Europeans. London: Collins.
1983    Amerindian Life in Guyana. Georgetown: Ministry of Education, Social Development and Culture. 32 p.
1988    The Amerindians of Guyana: Original Lords of the Soil. América Indígena XVLIII (2): 353-376.
Mentore, George
1988    The relevance of myth. Georgetown: Department of Culture.
1993    Tempering the Social Self. Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 9:22-34.
Metcalfe, Anthony, S.J.
1994    Journal of a Flying Priest. Georgetown.
Moody, Roger
1995    Swords in the Shield: Canada’s Invasion of the Guianas. Part One of Report for the Amerindian Peoples Association. Georgetown.
1995    Five Minutes to Midnight: an Account of the Origins and Consequences of South America’s Worst Mine Disaster. Report for the Amerindian Peoples Association. ms. Georgetown.
Myers, Iris
1944    The Makushi of British Guiana: A study in culture contact. Part I. Timehri 26: 66 -77. Georgetown: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society.
1946    The Makushi of British Guiana: A study in culture contact. Part II. Timehri 27: 16 -38. Georgetown: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society.
1993    The Makushi of the Guiana-Brazilian Frontier in 1944: A study of Culture Contact. Antropologica 80: 3 -99.
New World (Guyana)
1969    The Amerindian Association — the Lands Commission. New World (Guyana) 1(1): 30–31.
1969    Amerindian land tenure. Report of the British Guiana Independence Conference, 1965. New World (Guyana) 1(1): 32–33.
1969    Excerpts from Mr Burnham's statement on revolt. New World (Guyana) 1(1): 10.
Pierre, Laureen
1988    The “Spanish Arawaks” of Moruca. Proccedings of the Conference on the Arawaks of Guyana. Georgetown: University of Guyana, 44-50.
1993    Stephen Campbell. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Guyana.
Pierre, Laureen and Adrian Gomes
1994    Amerindian Stories. Told in Makushi and English. Georgetown: Guyana CBR Programme and Red Thread’s Women’s Press.
1994    Amerindian Stories. Told in Wapishana and English. Georgetown: Guyana CBR Programme and Red Thread’s Women’s Press.
Poonai, N.O.
1962    Archaeological sites on the Corentyne coast. Journal of the British Guiana Museum and Zoo 33: 52–53.
1963    History of the Amerindians of Guyana. Journal of the British Guiana Museum and Zoo 37: 35-38.
1966    Warapoca — stone age village and factory. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 42: 61-65.
1967    Extinct Tribes and Threatened Species of the South Savannahs. Timehri 43: 73-80.
1970    Stone Age Guyana: A Survey of Archaeological Investigations in Guyana and Adjacent Lands.. Georgetown: National History and Arts Council.
1974    Recollections of a naturalist.Timehri, 44: 31–43.
1974    West to the Waini. An ecological study of the Wild Coast  and the marsh and swamp forest between the Pomeroon and Orinoco. Timehri, 44: 45–83.
1978    Stone Age Guyana. Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 1(1): 5-23.
Potter, Lesley
1993    The Amerindians of Guyana and their environment. Paper delivered at the Tenth Conference of Caribbean Historians, 1978. Also History Gazette 52 (1993).
Rivière, Peter G.
1984     Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1995    Absent-Minded Imperialism. Britain and the Expansion of Empire in Nineteenth-century Brazil. London: Tauris Publishers.
Roopnaraine, Terence
1995    Shout on the Border: Minerals, Social Tension and the Frontier. Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology. 10: 36-42.
1996    Freighted Fortunes: Gold and Diamond Mining in the Pakaraima Mountains , Guyana. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge.
Roth, Vincent
1941    Observations upon the operation of the Aboriginal protection laws of British Guiana and cognate matters. Unpublished typescript, 1941, Caribbean Research Library, University of Guyana.
1952    Amerindians and the State. Timehri 31: 8 -15.
1952    Legislative Council on Tour. Timehri 31.
Roth, Walter E.
1911c    Old Time Indians: Their Manners and Customs. Timehri I(1): 62-75
1915    An Inquiry into the Animism and Folklore of the Guiana Indians. 30th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. pp. 103-386.
1924    An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians. U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology. 38th Annual Report. (1916-1917). Washington.
1929    Additional Studies of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians, with Special Reference to those of Southern Guiana. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin. No. 91. Washington.
Sanders, Andrew
1987    The Powerless People. London: MacMillan Caribbean.
1987    British Colonial Policy and the Role of Amerindians in the Politics of the Nationalist Period in British Guiana, 1945–68. Kingston: Unversity of the West Indies, Social and Economic Studies 36(3): 77–98.
Sanders, Douglas
1995    Amerindian Peoples in Guyana. University of British Columbia.
Salisbury, R.F. and M.J. Dummett and T.L. Hills
1968    Ethnographic Notes on Amerindian Agriculture. McGill University Savannah Research Project Series, 9. pp. 31-71. Montreal: McGill University Press.
Schomburgk, Richard
1894    Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840–1844. English translation by M.H. von Ziegezar. Timehri, new series, 8(13): 297–315.
1922 -23    Travels in British Guiana 1840–44. 2 vols. trans. W.E. Roth. Georgetown: The “Daily Chronicle” Ltd. First published Leipzig, 1847/1848.
Schomburgk, Robert Hermann
1841    Twelve views in the Interior of British Guiana. London: Ackermann and Co.
1841    Robert Hermann Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana during the years 1835–1839. E.O. Schomburgk, ed. Translated by Walter E. Roth. Georgetown: The Argosy Company. Reprint edition, 1931.
Seggar, W.H.
1965    The changing Amerindian. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 40: 13-17.
1965    Amerindian villages. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 41: 10-14.
1966    Amerindian policy and development. Journal of the Guyana Museum and Zoo 42: 31-35.
Staats, Susan K.
1996    Fighting in a Different Way: Indigenous Resistance through the Alleluia Religion of Guyana. Jonathan D. Hill, ed. History, Power and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492 -1992. pp. 161-179. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Swan, Michael
1957    British Guiana. Land of Six Peoples. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
1958    The Marches of El Dorado. London. Boston: Beacon Press.
Waterton, Charles
1909    Wanderings in South America. New York: Sturgis and Walton. Reprint edn. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1925.
West Indian Commission
1992    Time for Action. Report of the West Indian Commission. Chapter X: 383 -400. Our Original Peoples. Barbados.
Williams, Denis
1995    Pages in Guyanese Prehistory. Georgetown: Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology.
m.s.    Iwokrama: The Commonwealth and Government of Guyana rain forest programme.  Georgetown: Guyana Natural Resources Agency.
Wishart, Jennifer
1994    The Prehistoric Warau of Guyana. Georgetown: Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology.
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