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... growing up in a racially segregated society, particularly in south-central Arkansas. An Interview with Elmer Beard: Remembrances of Black Activism, Communal Solidarity, and the Burning of Roanoke Baptist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas Jajuan Johnson, College of William and Mary Context. The oral history...

... and their activities in the New World. Ethnohistorians will also find this book a valuable resource for the study of indigenous peoples. About 30 percent of the volume focuses exclu- sively on them. Van der Donck had experience with both the Munsee Indi- ans of the Manhattan Island environs and the Mohawks...

...Anna J. Willow Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical...

...Aurélie A. Roy Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities . Edited by Krouse Susan Applegate and Howard Heather A. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 . xxv + 203 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, index . $30.00 paper...

...Daniel Bauer Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru . By Li Fabiana . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . x+265 pp., introduction, notes, references, index . $25.95 paperback, $94.95 cloth.) Copyright 2018 by American Society...

... and witchcraft. It speaks to a lived world set ambiguously between violations of social norms and the uncertainties of official culture as it examines these heterodox practices, especially as they relate to Indians. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 From Sodomy to Superstition: The Active Pathic...

...Gabrielle Vail Abstract This article focuses on female-gendered activities in Mesoamerican culture and reveals a strong link between conception, pregnancy, and childbirth on the one hand and weaving and other activities that produce cloth on the other. Supporting evidence from sources...

... of colonization and imperial rule in North America. This article uses Sioui’s life story as a window into this long history, providing insight into twentieth-century Indigenous social movements such as the political activism of the 1970s, the quest for higher education in the 1980s, and the efforts to harmonize...

... and successfully fought against and capitalized on the cultural tensions of the decade. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2024 activism twentieth century sovereignty gender kinship In the spring of 1974, a Mohawk woman named Lorraine Montour...

... and linguistic context of this belief among the contact-period Nahuas: the import of tetzahuitl (omens) in the animistic worldview of the Aztecs, as well as the characteristic semantic pair in tecolotl, in chiquatli (“the owl, the barn owl”) to signify the lethal activities of the most representative messengers...

... to their own theory of ritual practice. Rather than converting to doctrine or the Word,missions were subsumed within a larger strategy of compartmentalizing new religious forms within distinct boundaries and activating them within a hidden subtext of Arapaho ritual movement. Through a unique religious...

... further demonstrates how Spaniards conceptualized sodomy in the highly gendered terms of activity and passivity that suggested domination and submission, and how this model of male-male sexual relations is inadequate and problematic for understanding historical realities. American Society...

... took the missionary teachings concerning proper and improper sexual activities, and through the lens of their own cultural concepts of sexuality and sexual relations they manipulated them for their own purposes. This paper will examine how the knowledge of the “sins of the fathers” served both...

... the region's Euro-American, Russian-Creole, and native communities. Thanks to that role as well as his political skills and successful commercial activities, Kostrometinov became the leading Russian-American citizen of Sitka—Alaska's first capital—serving as the warden of its Orthodox cathedral as well...

...Peggy Brock This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from the 1860s to the turn of the century. It is informed by the remarkable diary of a Tsimshian, Arthur Wellington Clah. It takes up the analysis where Robert Grumet left it in his article in Ethnohistory in 1975. Clah's day-by-day...

... through storytellers'representations of them. These representations are not simple fixed historical messages that are expressed explicitly, but they are active and interconnected with present situations and thus are a part of the society's habitual actions. The memory of the journey of Nayeche...

... settlers from their traditional lands. The few authors who recorded this“rebellion” failed to mention that the warriors' active resistance to colonization was rooted in a revitalization movement comparable to other indigenous millenarian revivals. This new interpretation is based on oral stories collected...

...Katherine M. B. Osburn Abstract This article analyzes how Arizona’s Indigenous leaders responded to attempts by the Arizona legislature to impose the state’s criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian reservations under Public Law 280. Indigenous Arizonans’ activism included requiring tribal...

... with their ancestral territory, by using their year-round activities as the guiding temporal framework to connect their current lives with the old process of creating and maintaining a region that became their homeland. References Basso Keith H. 1996 . Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among...