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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 439–449.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and Agentive Initiatives
Steve J. Langdon, University of Alaska Anchorage–National
Science Foundation
Introduction
The north Pacific region encompassing the westernmost parts of North
America and the easternmost parts of Asia was a location where direct con-
tacts of European-derived groups...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Damon Akins Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903 . By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2018 . xi +287 pp., illustrations, preface, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index...
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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 (2008) 55 (2): 353–355.
Published: 01 April 2008
.... The last four chapters examine Gall’s experiences at Stand-
ing Rock, where he accepted the need to cooperate with the agent James
McLaughlin. In fact, the author suggests that to understand the reservation
years, one must come to see that McLaughlin came to replace Sitting Bull
as the warrior’s...
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in Across Archival Limits: Colonial Records, Changing Ethnonyms, and Geographies of Knowledge
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 5. Plotting the reported locations of autonomous Indigenous agents in published primary sources reveals similar patterns as figure 4 .
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in Across Archival Limits: Colonial Records, Changing Ethnonyms, and Geographies of Knowledge
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 4. More than five hundred manuscripts report locations of autonomous Indigenous agents, yet each present-day archival city exhibits a limited territorial vantage point concentrated on colonial settlements.
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2013
... that if the power of the wak'a depends on believing in them, they prove to be unwieldy agents resilient to Christian and scientific unmasking of superstition. Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 References Adelaar Willem Muysken Pieter 2004 The Languages of the Andes...
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Dena'ina Resistance to Russian Hegemony, Late Eighteenth and Ninetenth Centuries: Cook Inlet, Alaska
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 485–504.
Published: 01 July 2013
... critical of RAC administrative decisions, suggesting far more could have been done to further the interests of Russia in Alaska. Less attention has been given to the agentive actions of the Tlingit, Ahtna, Alutiiq, and Dena'ina in controlling the Russian occupiers and minimizing European hegemony. Three...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 505–536.
Published: 01 July 2013
... in traditional cultural practice to at.óow , thereby instantiating a hybrid bridge of relationship rooted in Tlingit conceptualization of reciprocal and sustained respect for the claims of others. The reverence bestowed by the Tlingit on these instruments was not reciprocated by later agents of US...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
... discuss contradictions of political empowerment and strengthening of indigenous organizations in the Amazon, which may also lead to trade-offs and to the risk of dependence on outside funds and agents. Multicultural organization and alliances provide important platforms to the adaptive resistance...
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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
..., and the geographic mobility and isolation of many Native American communities. Understanding how, where, and why national census takers and Indian agents failed to overcome these challenges sheds light on the locality of federal power and the pathways through which Native Americans maintained their autonomy...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 January 2005
.... It thus functions in ways similar to the Habermasian “public sphere,” with the crucial difference that it presupposes a different kind of polity, made up of different kinds of agents. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... This 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...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 395–421.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of Indian agents, and diaries of emigrants, explorers, trappers, and other travelers and setting them against the received ethnographic images of the Shoshone, particularly the image of family-scale organization presented by Julian Steward, tests the validity of those images. I propose rethinking the neo...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the experiences and actions of collective agents who transformed their warfare practices and social alliances in order to fight for their autonomy and survival. The Copiapó people transformed from a society characterized by low-scale intermittent warfare to one that employed an intensive mode of conflict...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony’s primary inland mining district from the Atlantic coast. Actively engaging settlers, soldiers, and agents of the state, the Botocudo contested Portugal’s geopolitical...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and eighteenth centuries, a period when they were invaded by colonial agents. There were other regional systems along the course of the Amazon and its many tributaries that were a part of a similar historical process of refounding identities and claims on land and people involving challenges to leadership...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
... often peripheral to the central narrative and never mentioned specifically by name, are nevertheless rendered as active agents in the shaping of a new colonial society. The article examines these images of Africans to reveal their ethnographic complexity and the development of concepts of alterity...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
... strategies. This process, rather than marginalizing knotted cords all together, as it is sometimes assumed, turned khipukamayuq into important, yet often overlooked agents for the gradual establishment of the Roman Catholic calendar in Andean rural parishes. Unraveling the basic principles for the accounting...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 605–637.
Published: 01 October 2007
... world. Confronting declining wildlife resources, the Iowa began reshaping their economies toward what they hoped would be a more stable agricultural future while initiating diplomatic relations with American agents to help mitigate recurring and more immediate tensions with powerful Indian adversaries...
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