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A Struggle for Trust: The Comcáac (Seris) of Sonora Under Colonial and Republican Rule, 1650–1850

Lasse Hölck

Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 645–669.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3633248

Published: 01 October 2016

...Lasse Hölck Abstract This study examines the historical relationship between Comcáac foragers of Sonora, Mexico, and the Spanish/Mexican society between 1650 and 1850. To do so, the concept of trust is introduced, adapted for ethnohistorical research, and discussed as a frequent term in the primary...

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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

... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...

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Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encounters: The Spanish Borderlands of North America

Cynthia Radding

Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 767–775.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-767

Published: 01 October 2000

... Press xvi + pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, tables, index, notes. cloth.) The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. Vol. , part , The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora Edited by Charles W. Polzer, S. J., and Thomas E. Sheridan. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press...

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Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America

Leslie S. Offutt

Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 800–802.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-800

Published: 01 October 2000

..., and on Sonora and Baja California, on New Spain’s northern frontier. Central to his analysis is the idea of the mutability of racial categorization, the imprecision and subjectivity of labeling in the documentary record, and the various factors that aﬀected the application of racial labels. Jackson...

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Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire; New Views of Borderlands History

John L. Kessell

Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 797–800.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-797

Published: 01 October 2000

... between agents of Spain and the upland native peasants of Sonora. Neither compares Chihuahua with Sonora or the Río de la Plata, how- ever. Would comparative scholarship have been better served, I wonder, had Nugent and Radding collaborated on a single presentation? A number of Contested Ground’s...

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Artificial stratification of an egalitarian forager society: Plan for an un...

in A Struggle for Trust: The Comcáac (Seris) of Sonora Under Colonial and Republican Rule, 1650–1850 > Ethnohistory

Published: 01 October 2016

Figure 2. Artificial stratification of an egalitarian forager society: Plan for an unequal land distribution in the Comcáac mission of Pitic, 1772. Archivo General del Estado de Sonora (Hermosillo, Mexico), FE, T. 15, fol. 011390r. Photo taken by author More

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Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica; Greater Mesoamerica: The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico

Bradford Andrews

Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 733–737.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-733

Published: 01 October 2003

... and the interior into the modern states of Sonora and Chihuahua. The introduction by Shirley Gorenstein and Michael Foster empha- sizes how little is currently known about the status and importance...

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In Appreciation of Henry Farmer Dobyns, 3 July 1925 to 22 June 2009

Kristine L. Jones

Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 357–362.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-001

Published: 01 July 2010

... Indian Reserva- tion south of Tucson, and the Fiesta de San Francisco Xavier in Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.6 While reviewing parish archives in Sonora, Dobyns real- ized the extent of the unequal burden of mortality from epidemic diseases among native peoples. Telling the story of indigenous...

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These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912

Katherine M. B. Osburn

Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 165–166.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8702558

Published: 01 January 2021

... as Indian republics, and to safeguard their lands. Hopi responses to Spanish government are lost to history except for evidence of a massacre at Awat’ovi, where Hopis destroyed the Spanish foothold in their homelands. After initial violence, the Yaquis of northwestern Sonora accepted their status as voting...

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Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment

Brice Obermeyer

Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 678–679.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-021

Published: 01 October 2008

... of three frontiers, internal provinces distant from imperial authority, situated at the periphery of major Ibero- American mining centers. Cynthia Radding compares Sonora in northwest Mexico to Chiquitos in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia, while Hal Langfur investigates the Eastern Sertão...

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