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...Nancy Shoemaker This essay examines cultures of racial categorization in New England and New Zealand through the life of one migrant, Elisha Apes, the younger half-brother of the radical Pequot Indian writer William Apess, who preferred to spell the family name with a second s . Elisha Apes settled...

... at [email protected]. 1 American Philosophical Society, Frank Speck Collection (hereafter APS-FSC), Box 18, IV, EI, Reel 9. On 27 December 1943, the Philadelphia Bulletin printed a feature article outlining Speck’s contributions to the war effort. He established a specific research unit...

... of Thomas’s annotations are at the APS. 4 I use Alex’s given name rather than his surname so as not to confuse him with his other relatives referenced in this text who also share the surname Thomas. 3 The correspondence records are held by the Canadian Museum of History Archives among its...

...) Collection, American Philosophical Society (APS). 62. Atleo, Tsawalk, 12, 133–34. 63. R. M. Galois, “Nuu-chah-nulth Encounters: James Colnett’s Expedition of 1787–88,” in HuupuKwanum Tupaat / Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects, and Journeys, ed. Alan L. Hoover...

... community leaders. But a few did choose to live out their lives in the exotic places they frequented on voyages— particularly Elisha Apes, a Pequot who married into the Maori. In the last two chapters, Shoemaker presents Wampanoag and Shin- necock oral histories that touch on the long-term legacy...

... sections. Although he is mostly successful in this difficult endeavor, many gaps ap- pear in both space and time. Several chapters restate much of the same background on the native culture. Others offer technical detail on archaeo- logical topics that seem beyond the range of an introductory-level book...

... and thus seemed prefabricated for colonial ap- plication. Indeed, when taken to recently conquered areas of Spain, like Granada, political triumph was incorporated into the feast through mock Moors versus Christian skirmishes. Discussion of Cuzco begins with an attempt to reconstruct Corpus...

... volume, author Terraciano extends the ‘‘new philology’’ approach, developed by James Lockhart in his study of Nahua people of central Mexico, to the Mixtecs of Oaxaca. Central to this ap- proach are (1) the identification and use of primary sources written by the indigenous people themselves and (2...

... Fernández de Córdoba’s (1990) examination of a seventeenth-century corregidor in Ibarra, Don Alonso Florencia Inca, who was also a member of the Inca nobility. The new corregidor’s ap- pearance in Ibarra was accompanied by ritualized...

... in a symposium accompanying a textile exhibit at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, the collection of eighteen essays intro- duced by Margot Blum Schevill was first published in by Garland. This new and updated edition by the University of Texas Press should ap- peal to a wide...

... essay, ‘‘Cultural Boundaries between Adaptation and De- fiance examines indigenous reactions to the Spanish mission communi- ties of northwestern New Spain. She explores how the native peoples ap- propriated Christian symbols such as the cross and specifically the rosary, placing them within...

... on a better-known and symbolically descendant civilization to explain his own data. At the same time, I am somewhat uncomfortable with an ap- proach, however skillfully applied, that reduces different traditions to an unchanging ur-text. The next two essays, by Phil Weigand and Joyce Marcus, deal...

... of the Discoverie was constructed from ex- perience, observation and interrogation of both the Spanish and the indige- nous population, as well as the texts and artifacts they produced’’ It is in this sense, through subtle attention to context and the careful ap- plication of anthropological, historical...

... the boyhood 80 Jason Mancini home to Rev. William Apes(s), who would later publish the first American Indian autobiography. As he relates in his work, his parents returned to live for a short time in Colchester, eventually leaving William and his...

..., Wheelock’s narrative smacked of social evolution.31 The success of Wheelock’s demonstration of Oneida “progress” can be assessed, in part, from newspaper accounts. Advance word of the historic gathering hit the Associated Press (AP) wire, and soon newspapers from Maine and Pennsylvania...

... as Afek did. Indeed, shortly after the first coming of the white men, some of their tools (a spoon, a book, a rope, and a doll) were guarded and worshiped in a spirit house (ap yuol) located in the Kwiva Valley...

... corresponding alphabetic text. Salomon’s ethnographic ap- proach identifies the role that documentation plays in Tupicochan society, and he argues convincingly that the alphabetic ayllu books that the com- munity began keeping in the late nineteenth century originally functioned simultaneously with khipu...

... corresponding alphabetic text. Salomon’s ethnographic ap- proach identifies the role that documentation plays in Tupicochan society, and he argues convincingly that the alphabetic ayllu books that the com- munity began keeping in the late nineteenth century originally functioned simultaneously with khipu...

... strategy in the struggle for the ancestral land. It was ap- proved that wise man José Félix Turón would write the first draft of the document, which would include the most important religious symbols— those referring to the genesis of the earth; the intimate link between the tree of life and the origin...

...–1821 721 Schweitzer, Peter P. Evgeniy, V. Golovko, and Nikolai B. Vakhtin Mixed Communities in the Russian North; or, Why Are There No “Creoles” in Siberia? 419 Shoemaker, Nancy. Race and Indigeneity in the Life of Elisha Apes 27 Smith-­Peter, Susan. “A Class of People Admitted...