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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 223–244.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Seth Mallios Historical narratives describing the demise of a sixteenth-century Jesuit mission on the Chesapeake grew from direct accounts of indigenous murder to elaborate constructions of the missionaries' divine sacrifice. A seriation of details from the seven contemporary Jesuit sources...
View articletitled, The Apotheosis of Ajacan's <span class="search-highlight">Jesuit</span> <span class="search-highlight">Missionaries</span>
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo Abstract This article analyzes the violent deaths of two Jesuit missionaries in the regions of Marajó (Pará) and the Itapecuru River (Maranhão). Their tragic end serves as a starting point through which one can explore the social relations that took place between Europeans...
View articletitled, Rethinking the Amazon Frontier in the Seventeenth Century: The Violent Deaths of the <span class="search-highlight">Missionaries</span> Luis Figueira and Francisco Pires
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Julia Sarreal Both the Crown and Catholic missionaries believed that frontier Indians needed to practice settled agriculture and animal husbandry in order to become civilized. For over a century Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní Indians of South America tried to Europeanize mission inhabitants...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 275–300.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Marcela Mendoza Abstract The Bolivian Tobas in northern Gran Chaco were mobile hunter-gatherers organized in bands. They called themselves qomleʔk , and spoke a distinctive variation of Guaicuruan language. For three hundred years, coalitions of Toba braves successfully rejected Jesuit missionaries...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 401–427.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Alcira Dueñas Abstract Transforming the religious outlook of Indigenous populations in the colonial Andes became an imperial undertaking that required more than an external change. In the Andes, the missionary enterprise of the Jesuits created a wholesale design of mechanisms for an effective...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to the Apostles’ Creed and articles of the faith, the prayers, commandments, and sacraments of the church, as well as Catholic teaching on sin, virtue, and the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. Ruíz de Montoya’s catechism was used with adults and children throughout the 128 years of Jesuit missionary work...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 281–317.
Published: 01 April 2002
... stipulated, in accordance with
Indian wishes, that only Jesuit missionaries would be given leave to enter
the Darién. Since the eastern Panamá frontier straddled separate imperial
jurisdictions, the royal cédula that placed the king’s...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 509–514.
Published: 01 July 2009
... natives; “Nightmare Conversions,” which
focuses on missionary efforts in the Andes and the eventual process of extir-
pation of idolatry that also occurred there; and “Christian Shamans among
the Guarani,” which tells of the activities of the Jesuits in what is now Para-
guay. In the second section...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 January 2018
... territory (roughly 320,000 square kilometers) was ruled by Jesuit missionaries from their base in Borja on the Marañón River. Jesuit authority stretched from Brazil to the Andean foothills. By 1767, when they were expelled from Ecuador and Peru, they had founded seventy-four missions. Sociedades...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 April 2018
... has our attention, Gary Van Valen uses it well. The Mojos lived in savannas along the Mamoré River as it flows toward Brazil. From 1682 onward, they congregated onto Jesuit missions in what later became the Department of Beni. Van Valen traces their trajectory through the eighteenth and nineteenth...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 385–405.
Published: 01 July 2021
... maintained independence and sovereignty south of the Biobío until the Chilean republic conquered the region in 1883. In an attempt to slowly erode Mapuche resistance and introduce Christianity to the region, the Spaniards resorted to the help of the Jesuit missionaries who had to teach the doctrine...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 639–668.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., and Jesuit missionaries.
While the council watched, Saint Lusson climbed a height of land that
overlooked the village, planted a cross and a cedar pole bearing the king’s
coat of arms, and took possession, “in his place and in his Majesty’s name,
Ethnohistory 54:4 (Fall 2007) doi 10.1215/00141801...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 575–577.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of indigenous
slavery, using the rich linguistic material produced by Jesuit missionaries.
The chapter titled “I Make Him My Dog / My Slave” reveals the close con-
nection between indigenous slavery in the North American interior and
concepts of domestication. The linguistic evidence and native cultural...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... In 1730, there were 21,031 Indians in the Pará and Maranhão missions (ARSI, Bras. 10, II, f. 338; Alden 1996 : 599), with 125 Jesuit missionaries. In the rest of Brazil in 1739, there were 14,129 Indians and 387 missionaries (Alden 1996 : 599–600). 11 The term cunhamenas refers to men who...
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View articletitled, The Making of Regional Systems: The Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá Regions in the Lower Brazilian Amazon, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 439–464.
Published: 01 July 2008
... and throughout the eighteenth
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century. Dakota leaders met the Jesuit father Joseph Marest, the “mis-
sionary to the Nadouesioux,” near the lower end of Lake Pepin in the late
1680s. Another generation of Dakotas met Father...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 423–452.
Published: 01 April 2000
... the Jesuits frequently despised. In-
deed, most missionary priests viewed the fur-trade husbands of these con-
verts as licentious drunkards who undermined Christian ideals; the Jesuits
even vigorously supported a seventeenth-century...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 July 2023
... letter issued in 1721 for Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts, as transcribed by the Jesuit missionary Pierre de La Chasse from France (Wicken 2004 : 97). Likewise, an English translation was published by the Maine Historical Society ( 1973 : 179) in the Maine Historical Society Quarterly . Most...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 285–302.
Published: 01 April 2009
... occasion where no
one was there. An Ojibwa from Sault Ste. Marie, the heartland of early
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Ojibwa country, came through there somewhat later. And according to the
local Jesuit missionary’s letter, he said, “Don’t bother...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 424–426.
Published: 01 April 2002
... missionary enterprise among
a number of northwestern indigenous groups offers a wealth of informa-
tion to those able to read knowledgeably and imaginatively enough to sift
the Indian ethnographies from the Jesuit worldview...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 April 2002
... missionary enterprise among
a number of northwestern indigenous groups offers a wealth of informa-
tion to those able to read knowledgeably and imaginatively enough to sift
the Indian ethnographies from the Jesuit worldview...
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