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Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado–Gila River Region, 1771–1783

Naomi Sussman
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7298819
Published: 01 April 2019
... deployed Spanish peace brokering to place the Quechán at the summit of a new political hierarchy. These negotiations underscore the interlocking nature of Indigenous diplomacy, which exerted more influence over the construction of a general alliance network than Spanish intervention did. Once...
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A Sleeping Army: The Military Origins of Interethnic Civic Structures on Mexico's Colonial Frontier

Sean F. McEnroe
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 109–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1435585
Published: 01 January 2012
...Sean F. McEnroe This article describes warfare and diplomacy between colonial and non-colonial peoples on the northeastern frontier of New Spain in the eighteenth century. It considers the relationship of Spanish and Nahua colonists to indigenous populations in the north. It argues that shared...
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Formal and Informal Alliances between Iberians and Natives in the Heart of Late Eighteenth-Century South America

Francismar Alex Lopes de Carvalho
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 65–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10117282
Published: 01 January 2023
... on extensive archival evidence and recent borderlands scholarship, this article suggests that written agreements had a limited impact on interethnic frontier relations. First, because informal relations shaped by Indigenous patterns of diplomacy were far more important to the success of alliances. Second...
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The Displacement of Violence: Ute Diplomacy and the Making of New Mexico's Eighteenth-Century Northern Borderlands

Ned Blackhawk
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 723–755.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-028
Published: 01 October 2007
... has been paid to the diplomatic strategies initiated by equestrian leaders in their new worlds. Increased diplomacy and alliance formation characterize the earliest recorded Comanche and Ute histories and offer windows into how Europeans influenced indigenous geographies as well as how various...
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Bannock Diplomacy: How Métis Women Fought Battles and Made Peace in North Dakota, 1850s–1870s

Émilie Pigeon, Carolyn Podruchny
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 29–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9404136
Published: 01 January 2022
... to handling everyday community life on the northern plains ensured the success and growth of their mobile villages. Métis women’s lives provide many examples of what historian Susan A. Miller ( 2009 ) describes as Indigenous diplomacy. According to Miller, Indigenous diplomacy is rooted in relationships...
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“Our Lands Are Our Life and Breath”: Coweta, Cusseta, and the Struggle for Creek Territory and Sovereignty During the American Revolution

Bryan Rindfleisch
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 581–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2313840
Published: 01 October 2013
... and realization, diplomacy along the eastern path no longer seemed a legitimate option for staving off the American invasion of Creek Country. Amid American demands for native lands based on the assumption of American hegemony over indigenous peoples in the aftermath of the Revo- lution, the leaders...
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Guest Editor's Introduction

Autumn Quezada-Grant
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2018918
Published: 01 April 2013
... These articles examine relations between indigenous and nonindigenous actors through their pointed negotiations and thoughtful contestations in North America and the Caribbean between 1500 and 1885. By focusing on peripheral areas, each of the articles uncovers interesting pluralities in these frontier...
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“They Will Know in the End That We Are Men”: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763–1776

Jennifer Monroe McCutchen
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 259–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10443393
Published: 01 July 2023
... gender constructs to their advantage, bolstering Indigenous notions of masculine leadership and reconceptualizing their identities as “men” in relation to foreign ideas about manhood and masculinity (Brown 1995 : 27). . . . Beliefs about gender shaped Native-European diplomacy from first...
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New Gnadenhutten, Moravian Missionaries, and Ojibwe Land Tenure on the Clinton River, 1781–1787

Jonathan Quint
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 25–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10117246
Published: 01 January 2023
... Proclamation and driving impulses, see Dowd 2002 : 177–85. 5 French-Indigenous diplomacy at Detroit from 1701–60 followed a similar model. See Desbarats 1995 . 4 Gregory Dowd ( 2002 : 64) argues that British officers had “radiated contempt” for Indigenous nations, reflected in abusive language...
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Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877

Christopher Marsh
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 238–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9522261
Published: 01 April 2022
... beyond that of their Indigenous neighbors because of their homeland’s strategic location between two empires: British and American. The Blackfoot used shrewd diplomacy, intimidation, and occasional violence to play colonial powers off against each other and limit the spread of new technologies...
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Change Amid Continuity, Innovation within Tradition: Wampum Diplomacy at the Treaty of Greenville, 1795

Daniel F. Harrison
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 191–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3789113
Published: 01 April 2017
... with traditional Iroquoian diplomacy. Evidence suggests that the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, while not officially in attendance, exerted significant influence on the treaty process. Amid this continuity, however, the Native negotiators put wampum to innovative uses. Examination of specific wampum...
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The Obfuscation of Native American Presence in the French Atlantic: Natchez Indians in Saint Domingue, 1731–1791

Noel E. Smyth
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 265–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9705904
Published: 01 July 2022
... Elizabeth . 2020 . “ The Natchez War Revisited: Violence, Multinational Settlements, and Indigenous Diplomacy in the Lower Mississippi Valley .” William and Mary Quarterly 77 , no. 3 : 441 – 72 . Ethridge Robbie , and Shuck-Hall Sheri M. , eds. 2009 . Mapping the Mississippian...
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Women in Bullboats: Indigenous Women Navigate the Upper Missouri River

Christopher Steinke
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 449–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4174231
Published: 01 October 2017
... local materials, and used them to travel independently on the river, beyond the gaze of American state power. 10 Their expeditions not only complicate previous chronologies of Plains Indian history but also help reveal a new dimension of indigenous women’s diplomacy and political action...
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Presidential Lecture: Discourse and Authority in Histories Painted, Knotted, and Threaded

Elizabeth Hill Boone
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 211–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1536867
Published: 01 April 2012
...Elizabeth Hill Boone This essay argues for the study of histories that are executed in graphic registers other than alphabetic writing, specifically histories that are painted, knotted, and threaded. As the products of the recording systems of the indigenous people themselves, they are inherently...
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Creek Indian Globetrotter: Tomochichi's Trans-Atlantic Quest for Traditional Power in the Colonial Southeast

Steven J. Peach
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 605–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-23133849
Published: 01 October 2013
... to its knees 614 Steven J. Peach and reconfigured the geopolitics of the Southeast, the sources of indigenous power narrowed. The Creek Confederacy emerged as a powerhouse of native diplomacy, but it no longer traded slaves for goods. Nor did...
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Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Steven J. Peach
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 446–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3870747
Published: 01 July 2017
...Steven J. Peach Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire . By Thrush Coll . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2016 . xii+310 pp., acknowledgments, maps, epilogue, appendix, notes, index . $38.00 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
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Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733–1763

Monica Ward
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 158–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642824
Published: 01 January 2013
...Monica Ward Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733–1763 . By Juricek John T. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2010 . 397 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $49.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American...
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Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

Jennifer Andrella
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 501–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11302678
Published: 01 October 2024
... 2024 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2024 Histories of Chicago’s spatial transformation have long privileged the urban expansion of the United States from the mid to late nineteenth century and neglected the region’s Indigenous and colonial past. Yet the Chicago Portage, an ecologically...
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Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century

Michael Leroy Oberg
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 317–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025358
Published: 01 April 2020
....) Copyright 2020 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2020 In Flesh Reborn, historian Jean-François Lozier focuses his attention on the indigenous mission communities that formed and developed in the Saint Lawrence River valley. Engaging at once a number of lines of historiographical inquiry and debate...
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A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

José Carlos de la Puente Luna
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 360–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9706055
Published: 01 July 2022
... shed light, always with a keen eye for comparisons and relevant case studies, on other practices and spaces besides marriage and diplomacy, where colonial regimes opened multiple opportunities for Indigenous elites old and new, including art, literacy, religion, education, state formation, commerce...
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