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“I Would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost”: The Influenza of 1918–1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 January 2025
... youths in 1919, provide a particularly fruitful terrain for analysis due to the detailed records, reports, and correspondence they shared with the Indian Office before, during, and after the pandemic. This rich source base offers a rare opportunity to analyze comparatively how these institutions handled...
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The Right to More Than a Cabbage Patch: Akimel O'odham Sacred Stories and the Form and Content of Petitions to the Federal Government, 1899–1912
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 January 2016
... O'odham sacred stories. Socioethical expectations modeled in the petitions challenge the Indian Office's efforts at assimilation and its conception of modernity based in Western hegemony, revealing a counterhegemonic definition based in mutually beneficial responsibilities and in what later advocates call...
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Colonial Conspiracies
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 259–280.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Irene Silverblatt Using records from the Lima office of the Spanish Inquisition, this article explores the cultural politics of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. Spain's imperial enterprise was rooted in the construction of new social beings at the core of modernity: (1) the racialized triad—Indian...
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Indians, Ladinos, and the Resurrection of the Protector de Indios , San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 1870–85
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 295–318.
Published: 01 April 2013
... sought to allow Indians more opportunities to redress legal issues in order to prevent future rebellions. Beyond aggressive tactics by elites to suppress Indians in revolt, government officials opted to reinstitute the colonial office of protector de indios in an attempt to address interethnic issues...
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“A Liberal and Paternal Spirit”: Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 87–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
...-based fisheries on which native communities had depended for millennia. Although fisheries officers enforced these rules, Indian agents—the field workers of the Department of Indian Affairs—were the ones who oversaw day-to-day life in native villages, including the fisheries. This article examines...
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Making Common Cause: Yanktonais and Catholic Missionaries on the Northern Plains
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 439–464.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Robert Galler On 28 January 1886, Crow Creek leaders sent a petition with over one hundred signatures to the Office of Indian Affairs affirming their interest in a Catholic mission school. Within the year, the first buildings were in place for an educational institution that served as a Catholic...
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The Last Days of the Mosquito Reservation: The Mosquito Indian Diplomatic Mission to Restore the Mosquito Reservation, 1894–1907
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 July 2024
... undertaken by Mosquito Indians to restore their reservation using rarely accessed British Foreign Office documents. These sources detail the extensive efforts by the last hereditary chief, Robert Henry Clarence, and a small number of Mosquito delegates living in exile in Jamaica, to persuade Great Britain...
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Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... $36.95 cloth.) Copyright 2020 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2020 Though the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) tried mightily, in the late nineteenth century Southern California’s indigenous people defied easy categorization. The arbitrary boundaries the OIA and other federal agencies...
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Willing Workers: Urban Relocation and American Indian Initiative, 1940s–1960s
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Speaks His Mind”
“American Indians Find Gary, Indiana a Good Place to Work, Live and
Play!” So declares a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Chicago Field Reloca-
tion Office poster from the 1950s. The poster’s images include a native
family relaxing in an immaculate home...
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The Creation of Indigenous Leadership in a Spanish Town: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1609–1752
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 October 2009
..., one regidor
(council member), and one fiscal.14 Just a few years before the institution
of these offices, two Spanish officials had estimated Zacatecas’s indigenous
population at 1,500 Indian laborers. This number, which did not include all
the women, children, and men who did not work...
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The Point of View of a Stone: Looking at the Colonization of the Northern Plains from the Standing Rock
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 January 2019
... children. In 1901, the Indian Office recommended that reservation teachers approach Native legends as a first step into the study of history. 18 Marie-Louise McLaughlin’s book, written to offer “the very texture of the thought of a simple, grave, and sincere people, living in intimate contact...
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Presidential Address: Memory and Mobility: Grandma’s Mahnomen, White Earth
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 345–377.
Published: 01 July 2017
... on Indian allotments, thus paving the way for lumber companies to strip these resources without having to incur the expense of actually owning the land. 20 Nonetheless, by 1909, an Indian Office investigation revealed that 80 percent of White Earth allotments had passed out of Indian hands, spurring...
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“Would You Believe That, Dr. Speck?” Frank Speck and The Redman's Appeal for Justice
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Deskaheh for recognition of Six Nations’ right to self-
government. According to F. K. Nielsen, the agent and lawyer associated
with the Claims Arbitration Office, a representative from the British gov-
ernment had informed him that Deskaheh’s petition was “the work of a
drunken Indian who had...
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A Rosebud Reservation Winter Count, circa 1751-1752 to 1886-1887
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 723–741.
Published: 01 October 2002
... together with other objects by the Indian Office’’ for the Sioux Indian
Tseng 2003.1.20 07:28
A Rosebud Reservation Winter Count
Museum. The photograph is reproduced, among numerous other places...
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Band, Not-Band, or Ethnie : Who Were the White Knife People (Tosawihi)? Resolution of a “Mereological” Dilemma
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 395–421.
Published: 01 July 2009
... Affairs) 1852 J. H. Holeman to Commissioner of Indian Affairs (CIA) Pp. 149 –55. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. 1857 Hurt to Young . #98, September , 1856. Pp. 778 –83. Executive Documents. Senate of the United States, Third Session, Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1856–57. Washington...
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Alcohol and Politics in the Cherokee Nation before Removal
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 671–695.
Published: 01 October 2003
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federal authority nor refunding collected money to the claimants. Never-
theless, on 22 February 1825, Thomas L. McKenney of the Office of Indian
Affairs informed the Cherokee delegation that the Department of War
had decided...
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Running for a Nation: The Remarkable Story of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 221–245.
Published: 01 April 2020
... dignitaries. The event not only allowed the champion to affirm his Indian identity but also provided Brown the opportunity to symbolically, dramatically, and publicly embrace the indigenous community from which he hailed. Upon leaving the office, Brown was whisked to the state assembly, where he witnessed...
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Competing Visions of Empowerment: Oneida Progressive-Era Politics and Writing Tribal Histories
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 419–444.
Published: 01 July 2014
... into American society be regarded as the key to addressing
social inequity, or would prosperity come from a push toward cultural and
political autonomy and the recognition of treaty-reserved rights? Should
the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) be eliminated, or could it become a part-
ner in advancing...
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“My Home Is on Both Sides”: Indigenous Communities and the US-Canadian Border on the Columbia Plateau, 1880s–1910s
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., all toward the goal of preserving the integrity of their band. 49 As a political entity, the Bonners Ferry band and its leaders advocated for themselves within the US federal system of Indian agencies and the Office of Indian Affairs ( fig. 2 ). Just up the Kootenai River across the border...
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Testing the Limits of Colonial Parenting: Navajo Domestic Workers, the Intermountain Indian School, and the Urban Relocation Program, 1950–1962
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 565–592.
Published: 01 July 2019
... complete, largely facilitated by staff from the Intermountain Indian School and the BIA relocation office in Los Angeles. 7 Sifting through the school’s records, one can see that most of the girls who attended the boarding school and migrated to Los Angeles or other cities had suffered significant...
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