...Jacob J. Sauer Abstract At the northern and southern ends of the Spanish “Empire,” two cultures of similar sociopolitical complexity violently removed Spanish invaders from their ancestral territory. The Che of southern Chile militarily engaged the Spanish in the mid-sixteenth century...

..., delle cantioni, de’ lignaggi, de’ maritaggi, delle feste che havevano di celebrar & del numero delle persone che devevano sacrificar, i nomi degli idoli, che in ogni terra havevano particolari & generali, i tributi, & le intrate che a’ Signori havevano di pagar, & in somma questi...

... in 1799 and 1816 further reduced Comanche numbers to some eleven thou- sand individuals, a figure that remained stable in the late 1820s.11 Coman- ches might have recovered slightly by 1846, when their population was estimated at some 12,000 people.12 Between 1848 and 1850, however, they were struck...

... 581 colors of the Maya color-­directional complex as well as the names of plants and spirits, where a series of utterances are characterized by syntactic and semantic parallelism. For example, in “the word for Jaguar Macaw seizure” we find (RB: 6): La a che cech mo tancase This is your...

... offered such enticements to Coman- che groups, cementing these relations over time to form the most powerful military and political alliance to date north of New Mexico. Beginning in the early 1700s and lasting nearly four decades, the Comanche-Ute alliance made New Mexico, for the first time...

..., and an addressee, the listener. Thus, in Ruiz de Montoya’s a-mongeta (I am speaking to him/her ) and che-mongeta (he/she spoke to me ) (Ruiz de Montoya 1639 : 228r, emphasis added), an addressee is already implicit. The novelty in Ara poru is its distinction between reading the book and listening...

... teil cab [At the First Tree of, At the Divided Tree of the World] An interesting feature of this parallelism is the substitution of the Yucate- can word for tree, che, with its Ch’olan cognate, te. This substitution may reflect a tradition grounded in pre-Hispanic hieroglyphic...

... or na-hi spellings, and North- ern renderings of Yukatekan otooch invariably spell the term with syllabic signs only (e.g., yo-to-che, Xcalumkin Column 4, A3). Compounding these errors, the authors miss a valid diachronic change in the canonical value of this sign from Early Classic ATOOT to later...

... on to discuss how the communities’ positions as mediators of trade were affected by cul- tural, geographic, and political situations, and how changes in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed...

... in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed to the dif- ferent trajectories taken by the two groups. In the end, the mobile, politi- cally decentralized, and dispersed Comanche appear to have achieved...

... on to discuss how the communities’ positions as mediators of trade were affected by cul- tural, geographic, and political situations, and how changes in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed...

... on to discuss how the communities’ positions as mediators of trade were affected by cul- tural, geographic, and political situations, and how changes in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed...

... in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed to the dif- ferent trajectories taken by the two groups. In the end, the mobile, politi- cally decentralized, and dispersed Comanche appear to have achieved...

... in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed to the dif- ferent trajectories taken by the two groups. In the end, the mobile, politi- cally decentralized, and dispersed Comanche appear to have achieved...

...’ positions as mediators of trade were affected by cul- tural, geographic, and political situations, and how changes in the Coman- che’s and Hasinai’s roles led to social change within the region. Finally, McCollough focuses on how sociohistoric variables contributed to the dif- ferent trajectories taken...

... or na-hi spellings, and North- ern renderings of Yukatekan otooch invariably spell the term with syllabic signs only (e.g., yo-to-che, Xcalumkin Column 4, A3). Compounding these errors, the authors miss a valid diachronic change in the canonical value of this sign from Early Classic ATOOT to later...

... B'atab' B'atab' East AjChata Noj K'in Kan Kante (Ajaw's uncle) Ajaw B'atab' North Noj Che AjTut Cacique B'atab' North Kan Noj Noj Tz'o Kit Kan Ajaw B'atab' West AjChatan Ek' Chatan? Kan Ek' B'atab' West Kan Tz'ik Tz'o Kit Kan Ajaw B'atab' South K'ixab'on Ach Kat...

... might be willing to see the Comanchería as a multiunit federation of piratical economies, but Hämäläinen’s tendency to present the Coman- ches as a singularity, a unity, ignores too much of the distinct divisional political histories. There are serious problems, too numerous to mention...