...Ola Gunhildrud Berta Abstract In December 1857, Protestant missionaries arrived on Epoon Atoll to establish the first mission station in the Marshall Islands. The story of their arrival has historical interest and contemporary importance in the Marshalls because it has been used to form local...

... defended Auhelawa from a raid by Dobu and its allies. I then move to Didiluwa, the first village constable in Auhe- lawa after the arrival of the Australian colonial administration. Sanebo, the Last Warrior Many people of the islands of Milne Bay Province tell stories of a time of war before...

.... Much as their colonized fellows in Latin America, native peoples in North America began reporting within a generation or so of contact that a dream or a vision had predicted the Europeans’ arrival. Among the present-day Cree, stories begin with a medicine man foreseeing the coming...

... 2019 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2019 In this well-researched book, Laurent Corbeil offers the story of how a complex mix of indigenous migrants from central areas of Mexico moved beneath the structures of colonialism and actively contributed to the creation of a flourishing economy...

.... Ozhaawashkodewekwe enters the archive through her Irish husband and American son-in-law. She used these connections to influence treaty councils. However, her life must be understood within the context of Anishinaabe political life in the upper Great Lakes. Long before Europeans arrived, treaties played...

... and received a basic education. Young Maori men departed from this place for London and returned with stories and perspectives that felt untranslat- able back here. Rangihoua Reserve is around the corner, memorializing the preaching of the first Christian sermon in New Zealand. This is New Zea- land...

... worlds of the Great Lakes from before the colonial era through the early 1800s, and with that knowledge, he offers new insights into familiar events. McDonnell reorients early American history by centering the story on the Odawas of Michilimackinac and demonstrating their role in shaping colonial America...

... and bitterness. All the subplots and time peri- ods were interconnected; they all built toward a point, which the speakers reemphasized at the end: that the once mighty Nahuapan lineages had been unjustly brought low. “We want to bring this out with this [story]: all [the later arrivals] paid tribute...

... 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...

... Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond . Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press. McDowell, Nancy 1985 Past and Future: The Nature of Episodic Time in Bun. In History and Ethnohistory in Papua New Guinea . Oceania Monograph 28. Deborah B. Gewertz and Edward L. Schieffelin, eds...

... duration, lasting several decades. Colonization of the American Caribbean initiated a desta- bilizing process, according Woodruff Stone, that fractured previous local relationships and diplomacy, as upon arrival Spaniards made alliances with local Taíno caciques that facilitated fissures...

.... The members of these communities debated how they might respond to the arrival of the newcomers. Villagers made their decisions, and some suffered for them. Historians have told these stories, but an assumption of decline intrudes. English success is written backward into the historical record. They arrive...

... and even kills a member of his entourage in an outburst of anger (157–58). At the end of the story, Great Chacha vanishes without a trace when news of the arrival of the Spaniards reaches his realm; however, he leaves a memento of his presence on earth in the form of a number of cyclopean stone monuments...

... of Alessandro and others, the Mixed Court at Havana declared the Africans who had arrived on the Preciosa “liberated” and determined that they be sent to the British colony of Honduras to work as “free” workers. The full history of what had transpired on the Preciosa did not sur- face through...

.... The lienzo is from the town of Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, a Zapotec com- munity situated in the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, and shows the history of the ruling lineage. The story of the document begins in the lower right corner where we have a woman, possibly sitting on a petate, or woven reed mat, a sign...

... this time, the story- tellers maintain, that the sun became very hot, parching the land, drying all the wells, killing all the cattle, and burning all the vegetation. When the storytellers of Najie and the upper Tarash region talk about the journey of Nayeche and the gray bull Engiro, they talk in terms...

.... William Terry and the newly arrived Catholic priest, Father Samuel Mazzu- chelli. These individual and community stories detail the stresses and in- ternal divisions that faced the multiethnic settlement at Mackinac, while also pointing to the complex role of Catholicism in challenging Anglo...

...-speaking areas of East Africa. Part of the story resembles the Kilwa Chronicle, a fifteenth-century document recorded by Portuguese sources and appearing in various versions along the coast, that tells the story of how the first ‘‘Shirazi’’ dynast arrived at Kilwa and requested that The Shomvi...

... which recalls islander-white rela- tions in Hawaii during the voyage of Captain Cook. The memory of Fuchs’s arrival is incorporated into the Elmolo’s historical consciousness, and their oral traditions detail some aspects of Fuchs’s voyage. Dyson and Martin appear in their stories as whites (wazungu...

... to the expectations generated by the arrival of new material and ideological manifestations. The agents that have been related to the European presence are presented herein by category in their diachronic succession. The Ipomoean...