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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3. The 1962 Workshop on American Indian Affairs. Robert K. Thomas and Clyde Warrior are standing next to each other in the back row, far right. D’Arcy McNickle Papers, Ayer Modern MS, the Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 87–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
...-based fisheries on which native communities had depended for millennia. Although fisheries officers enforced these rules, Indian agents—the field workers of the Department of Indian Affairs—were the ones who oversaw day-to-day life in native villages, including the fisheries. This article examines...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Kathryn Magee Labelle Abstract Éléonore Sioui was born in 1920—the same year that the Canadian deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, proclaimed infamously, “Our object is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 July 2001
... history of the contemporary Houma traces the group's origin to Native Americans of the Houma and other tribes who moved into the bayou country of southeastern Louisiana during the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. However,anthropologists and historians from the Bureau of Indian Affairs have...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 489–515.
Published: 01 July 2018
... was a negotiated, dynamic affair in which trial and error were as constant as the rapidly evolving, entangled historical context. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Aboriginal Dharawal colonial biography guiding In the warm weeks approaching Christmas, sometime between 1817...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 537–563.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 3. The 1962 Workshop on American Indian Affairs. Robert K. Thomas and Clyde Warrior are standing next to each other in the back row, far right. D’Arcy McNickle Papers, Ayer Modern MS, the Newberry Library, Chicago. ...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 January 2014
... issues that stem from the imposed land management programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and practical issues in which the results of federal policies like allotment inhibit tribal access to and control over resources within Cherokee Nation boundaries. In this article, I trace the origins...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 439–464.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Robert Galler On 28 January 1886, Crow Creek leaders sent a petition with over one hundred signatures to the Office of Indian Affairs affirming their interest in a Catholic mission school. Within the year, the first buildings were in place for an educational institution that served as a Catholic...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 445–466.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Indian Affairs remove the Mi'kmaq who camped on his property; the Mi'kmaq resisted these demands by relying on traditional practices of seasonal transience and innovative forms of leadership. Showman and Native doctor Jerry Lone Cloud led the struggle to stay in Kebeceque. Among a generation of informal...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2015
... a distinctive style to record sovereign political and financial affairs, an example of the Mesoamerican emphasis on authority—the ability to inscribe and draw upon and mobilize relevance and meaning—as the foundation for creating and maintaining a lettered polity. Copyright 2015 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Douglas K. Miller Scholarship on American Indian urbanization and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' mid-twentieth-century “voluntary relocation program” often characterizes native relocatees as hapless victims. The disastrous side of urban relocation is well documented: Indian Bureau promises lured...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Kenton Storey Abstract This article is an examination of the impact of the pass system on First Nations people from the Treaty 4 District of Western Canada. The pass system, which was implemented by the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) in 1885, was a system of administrative control that required...
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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 1. Robert K. Thomas (with pipe) and Robert Rietz at the Workshop on American Indian Affairs. D’Arcy McNickle Papers, Ayer Modern MS, the Newberry Library, Chicago.
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Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870–1911
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 729–750.
Published: 01 October 2015
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as a human being by a census which counts even the cattle and horses of the
country.”
—Francis Amasa Walker, Superintendent of the 1870 Census of the United
States
In 1887, J. D. C. Atkins, the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
noted in his annual report that the yearly...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 11–33.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., French Commandant in the North-
west, trans. and ed. Emma Helen Blair (Cleveland, OH, 1911), 2:347.
9 26 April 1825, Sale of land near the St. Clair River, copyright Indian and North-
ern Affairs Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public
Works and Government...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., Letter to Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, 325–27. 23 MacKay, Letter to Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, 85. 24 Howse to Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, 66. 25 Annual Report 1913 ; Marchand, “The Way I Heard It ,” 88–89. 26 Mourning Dove, Mourning...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 433–472.
Published: 01 July 2001
... most of his career with the Anthropology Divi-
sion and (after a bureaucratic reorganization of Canadian government an-
thropology) the National Museum, Barbeau also served as an examiner
for new appointments to the Department of Indian Affairs, as a federal
delegate to and on a variety of other...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 145–167.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of Louisiana finally regained Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Services
in 1973, Americans increasingly thought in terms of ethnicity rather than
race, which meant popular views of Indians relied more heavily than ever on
“heritage” or “background.”5 Debates about acknowledgment often con-
fused...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 April 2008
...: McClelland & Stewart. Hawthorn, Harry B. 1966 A Survey of the Contemporary Indians of Canada: Economic, Political, Educational Needs and Policies . Ottawa: Indian Affairs Branch. Mills, Antonia 1994 Eagle Down Is Our Law: Wet'suwet'en Feast and Land Claims . Vancouver: University of British...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 142–143.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, including his insightful discussion of the community’s legal code of 1801 (65–74) and his well-founded argument regarding the enduring power of matrilineal clan governance throughout the nineteenth century (40–41, 201–11). This emphasis on a single community makes...
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