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Bannock Diplomacy: How Métis Women Fought Battles and Made Peace in North Dakota, 1850s–1870s Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Émilie Pigeon,Carolyn Podruchny
Abstract Métis women have been neglected in scholarship because they are hard to find in historical records. Seeking out little-used sources and amplifying their voices in them demonstrate that they were significant figures in maintaining peace within their communities on the northern Great Plains in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Through their actions in battles and diplomatic negotiations,
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“Les Sçioux n’étoient bons qu’à manger”: La Colle and the Anishinaabeg-Dakota War, 1730–1742 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Scott Berthelette
Abstract La Colle was an influential Anishinaabe ogimaa (leader) and mayosewinini (war chief) who led the Monsoni (moose) doodem (clan) in the Rainy Lake region during the 1730s and 1740s. A biographical study of La Colle not only restores an individual Indigenous voice to the tapestry of Native North America but also provides insight into a conflict between the Anishinaabeg, Nêhiyawak (Crees), Nakoda
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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Mercedes Peters
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Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Abstract Recent scholarship on the Spanish invasion of the New World has brought under scrutiny the historiographic theme of apotheosis—the notion that Indigenous peoples regarded the invaders as gods or godlike beings and that such beliefs influenced their responses. This article examines the question by focusing on Pedro de Alvarado, a leading member of Hernán Cortés’s contingent, who was known as
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Marital Practices of the Nahuas and Imposed Sociocultural Change in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Katarzyna Granicka
Abstract There are many sources that allowed scholars to study the nature and functions of polygamous marriages of the Nahua nobility. Very few studies, however, focus on the marital relations of the Nahua commoners. This article presents exploratory research into various kinds of marriages of the macehualtin—polygamy, sororate, and levirate. Based on the available material (early censuses, inquisitorial
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Decolonizing Discipline: Children, Corporal Punishment, Christian Theologies, and Reconciliation Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kaitlyn Watson
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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Colin M. Osmond
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The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia: History, Conquest, and Memory in the Native Northeast Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Aubrey Lauersdorf
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A Vocabulary of the Language Spoken in the Region Formerly Known as Leán y Mulia in Honduras Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Roberto E. Rivera
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An Interview with Elmer Beard: Remembrances of Black Activism, Communal Solidarity, and the Burning of Roanoke Baptist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jajuan Johnson
Context The oral history interview with Mr. Elmer Beard, a longtime political activist, politician, and educator, is part of a series of interviews for a study on Black church burnings, arsons, and vandalism from 2008 to 2016. Mr. Beard gives historical context to recent Black church arson with a focus on the mysterious burning of Roanoke Baptist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on 22 December 1963
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Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nijai’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors” Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Owen H. Jones
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The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Krystl Raven
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A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Anderson Hagler
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The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Rebecca Dufendach
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“For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jon Parmenter
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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 John R. Legg
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 James L. Hill
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Kiowa at the Battle of the Washita, 27 November 1868 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 William C. Meadows
Abstract While the Battle of the Washita of 27 November 1868 is a well-documented event in Native American and Southern Plains history, especially regarding the Cheyenne, Kiowa involvement is little known. This work sheds light on which Kiowa were at the battle and their participation, through an examination of US military records, Kiowa ledger art, oral histories, onomastics, photographs, and an unpublished
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Empires of Xolotl: Two Opening Compositions of the Codex Xolotl Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Jerome A. Offner
Abstract Only one of two opening compositions in the Codex Xolotl has been recognized. The conventional version shows the entry of Xolotl, Nopaltzin, and six lesser rulers into the Basin of Mexico from near Tula, Hidalgo, followed by settlement at Xoloc and later a place that will become Tenayuca. The manuscript’s two larger fragments, assembled correctly for the first time, show Xolotl and Nopaltzin
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Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Emma Feltes
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The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Chad Anderson
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Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovisión Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Rafael C. Alvarado,Aldo Ismael Barriente,Allison Margaret Bigelow
Abstract The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from being destroyed by colonial officials or Inquisitional
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The Burden of the Ancients: Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-Columbian Period to the Present Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Walter E. Little
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“To Conclude on a General Union” Masculinity, the Chickamauga, and Pan-Indian Alliances in the Revolutionary Era Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Jamie Myers Mize
Abstract Utilizing gender as a lens for understanding the political decisions of Cherokee men in the Revolutionary era, this article examines the evolution of Cherokee manhood as Cherokee men renegotiated their masculinity in the wake of colonial pressures. A group known as the Chickamauga sought to maintain historic expressions of manhood and developed several strategies to do so. In particular, Chickamauga
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Accusing and Identifying the Kalku: The Perception of Sorcery in Mapuche Society (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Oriol Ambrogio
Abstract This article examines accusations of sorcery as a way to understand the perceptions of sorcery among the Mapuche of central-southern Chile during the colonial period. Local communities believed that illnesses and unfortunate events were caused by the actions of sorcerers, known as kalku, and therefore consulted ritual healers and diviners, the machi and dugul, to identify and punish the supposed
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The Wisconsin Oneida and the WPA: Stories of Corn, Colonialism, and Revitalization Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Rebecca M. Webster
Abstract Colonization efforts over time have changed Oneida relationships with corn drastically. This study examines that history through a collection of stories told by Oneida people for the Work Progress Administration (WPA) between 1938 and 1942. Furthermore, the people’s changing relationship with corn over time highlights the effects of removal, allotment, and assimilation on the Oneida within
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The Conquest of Española as a “Structure of Conjuncture” Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Erin W. Stone
Abstract This article delves into the conquest and early years of colonization of Española from the perspective of the “structure of the conjuncture.” By doing so it prioritizes the Indigenous perspective of conquest, particularly that of the cacique Guacanagarí, who formed the first alliance with the Spaniards in 1492. The article follows the development of the historic alliance, digging beneath the
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Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Emma Stelter
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Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich
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Compositional Stasis and Flexibility in American Indian Tribes Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Raymond I. Orr,Yancey A. Orr
AbstractAmerican Indian tribal power has typically expanded since the 1960s. During this period, often referred to as the Self-Determination Era, tribes have regained much of their earlier political centrality. One rarely addressed limitation during this period is the inability of tribal polities to break into smaller units while maintaining recognition as legitimate. This essay identifies the inability
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Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Samantha R. Billing
Abstract The Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean Coast of Central America, have long been recognized for their racial diversity. In the mid-seventeenth century, a ship of African slaves wrecked on the Mosquito Coast and subsequently intermarried with the Miskitu population. Since then, there have been two groups of Miskitu: the “pure” indios and the racially mixed sambos. This article argues
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Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Elena FitzPatrick Sifford
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Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Margaret Ellen Newell
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Presidential Address: Memories of Better Times before the Christians Came to Mexico and Guatemala Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Kevin Terraciano
Abstract The author presented a draft of this essay as a presidential address at the 2012 meeting of the society in Springfield, Missouri. The theme of the meeting was “the apocalypse,” referring to a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicted a cataclysmic event to occur in that year. The address proposed that the apocalypse had already occurred in the sixteenth century, when the Maya and many
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Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854–1946 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Andrew Offenburger
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Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Christina Gish Hill
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Khipu Transcription Typologies: A Corpus-Based Study of theTextos Andinos Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Manuel Medrano
AbstractDespite ongoing efforts to compile both Andean khipus and their written colonial references, initiatives in this domain have emphasized the benefits of aggregation vis-à-vis preservation and diffusion, largely forgoing opportunities to analyze khipu data in aggregate. This article introduces multivariate statistical analysis to colonial khipu texts, enlisting the aid of a heretofore little-studied
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Diasporic Convergences: Tracing Knowledge Production and Transmission among Enslaved Chinos in New Spain Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Diego Javier Luis
Abstract During the seventeenth century, transatlantic and transpacific diasporas created one of the world’s most globalized early modern societies in New Spain. As the slave trades to the colonial centers of central Mexico reached frenetic levels after the turn of the seventeenth century, processes of encounter, exchange, and transmission began to characterize these diverse communities. For “chinos”
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Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Morgan Ritchie,Bruce Granville Miller
Abstract During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage
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Voices from Vilcabamba: Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Zach Chase
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Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Anderson Hagler
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Treaty Stories: Reclaiming the Unbroken History of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Sovereignty Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Margaret Huettl
Abstract Ojibwe leaders negotiated treaties with the United States amid nineteenth-century encroachments on their territory. These treaties, which were more than tools of dispossession, enfolded and extended aadizookanag (sacred stories) in agreements that embodied Ojibwe relationships with land, language, sacred history, ceremony, and kin. Federal and state policy makers, fueled by the desire for
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The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Brandi Hilton-Hagemann
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jeff Washburn
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These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Katherine M. B. Osburn
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Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jacqueline Holler
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Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Margaret A. Jackson
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Conceiving of the End of the World: Christian Doctrine and Nahua Perspectives in the Sermonary of Juan Bautista Viseo Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Stephanie Schmidt
Abstract This article considers questions of authorship in Juan Bautista Viseo’s “Second Sermon for Advent” about “frightful, and terrible signs” of Judgment Day. Although Bautista acknowledges important contributions by Nahua scholars in the production of his Nahuatl-language sermonary, he does not plainly recognize them as coauthors. However, the text itself registers indigenous perspectives. This
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No Longer Home: The Smellscape of Mexico City, 1500–1600 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Barbara E. Mundy
Abstract During the course of the sixteenth century, the Aztec (or Mexica) city of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco (present-day Mexico City) was transformed from a sweet-smelling lacustrine city into a foul one, the direct result of the Spanish invasion (1519–21). This article reconstructs both the sources of odors and culturally situated ideas about smell among the city’s Nahuatl-speaking residents. They
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Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Stephen R. Hausmann
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Scott Berthelette
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Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Thomas J. Lappas
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Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Anderson Hagler
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White Swan: On Possible Further Additions to the Oeuvre of a Crow Warrior-Artist Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Stephen J. Lycett,James D. Keyser
Abstract Crow warrior-artist White Swan authored more biographic images than any other Historic-period Crow artist. It has even been suggested that he drew one rock art scene at the historically important petroglyphs at Joliet, Montana. Here, the authors evaluate the likelihood that the Joliet scene is a White Swan drawing, and they also evaluate the possibility that one of the “anonymous” ledger drawings
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Natale A. Zappia
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Rituals of the Past: Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Nicola Sharratt
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From Arrival Stories to Origin Mythmaking: Missionaries in the Marshall Islands Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ola Gunhildrud Berta
Abstract In December 1857, Protestant missionaries arrived on Epoon Atoll to establish the first mission station in the Marshall Islands. The story of their arrival has historical interest and contemporary importance in the Marshalls because it has been used to form local theology and to shape contemporary identities. Thus, the arrival story of the first missionaries to the Marshall Islands functions
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Chimalpahin’s Nahua Authority: Modifying a Spanish Account of the Conquest of Mexico Ethnohistory (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Veronica Rodriguez
AbstractThis article provides an analysis of Chimalpahin’s additions to Francisco López de Gómara’s Historia de la conquista de México. In his account, Chimalpahin draws attention to the plurality of ethnic states, their cultural practices, and political conflicts. In this article, the author argues that Chimalpahin’s modifications depict a Nahua version of the conquest in which the emphasis on the