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The Sambo and Tawira Miskitu: The Colonial Origins and Geography of Intra-Miskitu Differentiation in Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras

Karl H. Offen

Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 319–372.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-2-319

Published: 01 April 2002

...Karl H. Offen Identity differentiation between the Sambo and Tawira Miskitu in eastern Nicaragua and northeastern Honduras is examined with respect to African integration, settlement geography, differential relations with British settlers and Spanish officials, neighboring Indians, and market...

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Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua

Philip A. Dennis

Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 491–496.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-006

Published: 01 July 2008

...Philip A. Dennis American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Review Essay Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. (Durham, NC: Duke...

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Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast

Philip A. Dennis

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 574–576.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-018

Published: 01 July 2007

...Philip A. Dennis Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Ferguson, James 1999...

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“God Save the King of the Mosquito Nation!” Indigenous Leaders on the Fringe of the Spanish Empire

Wolfgang Gabbert

Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 71–93.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3325406

Published: 01 January 2016

...Wolfgang Gabbert The Miskitu Indians of Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras are one of the most numerous indigenous groups in the southern part of Central America. Never conquered by the Spaniards during the colonial era, they first came under control of the Central American republics in the late...

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The Last Days of the Mosquito Reservation: The Mosquito Indian Diplomatic Mission to Restore the Mosquito Reservation, 1894–1907

Luciano Baracco

Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11139776

Published: 01 July 2024

...Luciano Baracco Abstract Geopolitical changes taking place in late nineteenth-century Central America laid the pathway for Nicaragua’s long-desired incorporation of the autonomous Mosquito Reservation, which was located on its Caribbean Coast. This article brings to light the diplomatic mission...

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Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America

Samantha R. Billing

Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 269–290.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8801876

Published: 01 April 2021

... . The Miskitu People of Awastara . Austin : University of Texas Press . Dennis Philip A. , and Olien Michael D. 1984 . “ Kingship among the Miskito .” American Ethnologist 11 , no. 4 : 718 – 37 . Dozier Craig L. 1985 . Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore: The Years of British...

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Elusive Identities: Indigeneity and Nation-States in Central America

David Carey, Jr

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 547–554.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-006

Published: 01 July 2007

...-century indigenous war- riors as Tekún Umán and Atlacatl have become iconic figures, yet modern indigenes are marginalized, erased, and even murdered, identity politics are particularly complex. Countries like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica have long held to their myths of mestizaje...

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The Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and Central America: Their Societies, Cultures, and Histories

W. George Lovell

Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 533–535.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266652

Published: 01 July 2020

... an extraordinary human survival achievement.” This is emphatically the case “in the context of the continued repression to which they have been subjected through the centuries” (119), nowhere more tragically so than in Guatemala in the early 1980s and the past two years in Nicaragua. Despite the iniquities...

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A Miskitu Critique of British Trade Practices

Karl Offen

Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 313–323.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9705940

Published: 01 July 2022

... for the Colonies (1772–1775). The Miskitu were one of several Indigenous peoples inhabiting the lowland coastal regions of what is today northeastern Honduras and Nicaragua ( fig. 1 ). 2 In the early colonial period, the Spaniards called this unexplored region la Provincia de Taguzgalpa, but by the start...

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Slaves of the Buccaneers: Mayas in Captivity in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

Arne Bialuschewski

Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 41–63.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3688359

Published: 01 January 2017

... Nicaragua and Costa Rica. A group of 112 buccaneers led by the notorious Jean François, better known as L’Olonnais, made their way up the river in seven pirogues and canoes to seize Spanish trading vessels. After a series of failed assaults the men were desperate to acquire some booty and possibly a useful...

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The Fog of Violence in Latin America: Structured Disorder in a Neoliberal World

James H. McDonald

Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 635–640.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1587487

Published: 01 July 2012

... risk, uncertainty, and violence that is woven into the fabric of daily life in many parts of Latin America. Colo- nial and postcolonial regimes were intolerant of dissent. During the Somoza years in Nicaragua, for example, anyone who dared to criticize the regime su¥ered the severing of an ear...

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New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations

Laura T. Keenan

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 555–557.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-007

Published: 01 July 2007

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

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