...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...

... the Dutch colonies 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...

...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 for...

... 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 and...

... 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...

... 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 and the...

... 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...

... 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 for...

... 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...

... aboriginal issues in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I examine the practical conditions and working assumptions connected to his role as an anthropologist and argue that Speck was a participant in a much larger political struggle that included the active engagement of...

... affiliation created a new ethnic identity within the changing contexts of colonial rule. Within these administrative contexts, the particular conditions pertaining to Saraguro, including the history of settlement in the region and the economic conditions during Spanish rule, motivated people to actively...

... frames Huey Tozoztli as an unusual, historically specific event yoking ritual activity to contemporary historical concerns. Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Huey Tozoztli Codex Borbonicus Tlaloc Mexica Chicomecoatl veintena tonalpohualli Tlaloc Rites and the Huey...

... changes in the amount of land available per capita through time. The results of this catchment analysis support the proposition that Q'eqchi' settlement patterns during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries were largely driven by exogenous economic activity rather than carrying capacity. The study...

... of this unique manuscript, which reveals how the community of Texupan responded actively and creatively to multiple changes and challenges in the early colonial period. Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Nahuatl Mixtec Oaxaca Mesoamerica writing language silk...

... environmental encounter. Drawing on oral tradition and on accounts of explorers such as George Vancouver, this article treats the newcomers ethnographically, setting their behavior within the context of European cultural practices, and treats aboriginal societies historically, showing them as active...

... Northern Arapaho society from the late eighteenth century to the present as well as how Arapaho people have actively adapted to contact-induced changes in time throughout that period. Investigated are directly and indirectly imposed changes in interactional, daily, seasonal, life-historical, historical...

... article suggests that by employing five critical tests we can use autobiography to gain some sense of narrators' earlier experiences as schoolchildren and of them as active agents in their own lives. Indeed, we often have little else to provide historical perspectives on assimilationist schooling “from...

..., use of language, political traditions, material culture, and socioeconomic ties and activities. The wills (and other documents) served as evidence of this hybridity, which was also facilitated by Spaniards and Spanish colonialism. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 “For My...

... characterized by cultural diversity and economic viability that reveal the active participation of Indian and African slaves in the economy, reminding us that Anglo-Americans did not immediately overwhelm Texas following the American Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase. Copyright 2013 by American Society...