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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Michael C. Coleman During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1820s–1920s) the US and British governments utilized elementary education as a tool of assimilation. Huge numbers of Indian and Irish children confronted educational systems designed to separate them from local cultural...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... Rather, they ensured the continuity of the Maya-K’iche’ religion, history, and identity throughout the colonial period through partial assimilation, hybridization, and co-optation or resistance to European culture and religion. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 References...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 459–467.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Michael E. Harkin Abstract The residential school was a primary tool in the settler colonial state’s efforts to force indigenous people to assimilate to Canadian society and culture. It was a Dickensian institution in which various forms of abuse were tolerated. This article examines the relative...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 433–472.
Published: 01 July 2001
... to which the existing Huron and Wyandot cultures could not conform. This led Barbeau to conclude that the Huron had been assimilated into white society: the Huron nation, in effect, no longer existed. The Canadian state readily agreed with this conclusion, using Barbeau's research to bolster its own plan...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 553–578.
Published: 01 October 2008
... represented himself as an authority on the Maya and as a model outcome of indigenista assimilation. Part revolutionary cacique (or boss), part ethnic broker, he used his mastery of Yucatec Maya and populist style to parry demands from below and to accommodate the new political and old economic elites. Still...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 October 2008
... in contrast to the cultural and economic assimilation of Mayas informs both Guatemalan and scholarly attitudes about Mayas today. The essay recontextualizes this position by discussing a specific cultural event—the annual fairs that Ubico organized to highlight Guatemala's economic and technological potential...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 285–302.
Published: 01 April 2009
... States east of the Rocky Mountains and the long history of attempts by the U.S. government to assimilate American Indians. American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 The Genesis of African and Indian Cooperation in Colonial North America: An Interview with Helen Hornbeck Tanner Ivor Miller...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 363–387.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Maidu do not see themselves spatially represented despite their collective presence. By appropriating tools of representation (maps), and assimilation (allotments), the act of mapping allotments resists the attempted political and spatial erasure of unrecognized California Indians. As allotments...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
Published: 01 April 2005
... to this population. In the process, a new knowledge about native health was created that saw disease as both a racialized and a gendered phenomenon. Hoping to apply these linkages to a broader population, the medical community advanced assimilative and hybridizing strategies to improve native health by eradicating...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 689–714.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Isabelle Combès; Kathleen Lowrey A product of the conquest of an Arawakan population by Tupí-Guaraní migrants, Chiriguano society offers a clear instance of “indigenous hybridity” that has received inadequate scholarly attention. We suggest that the assimilation of the Chiriguano case to Tupí...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 87–118.
Published: 01 January 2008
... than the official policies of the Department of Indian Affairs, that worked to redefine native fishing in accordance with settler interests. By extending so-called privileges to native fishers, Indian agents worked to conserve the resource for a settler society and assimilate native fishers into state...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 401–426.
Published: 01 July 2017
... fixed on “civilizing” through assimilation. Another was a growing scientific curiosity expressed through the founding of intellectual organizations such the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, and often at odds with prevailing religious beliefs, which adhered to the “sacred chronology” of the Bible...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 215–246.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to their descendants. It investigates the role of spatiality and temporality in community construction—specifically, how the persistence of Arikara memory and tradition empowered residents to navigate changes wrought by the assimilative policies of the U.S government. This research revealed that Arikara memories...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 565–592.
Published: 01 July 2019
... students to assimilate as low-status workers into American society and move away from their reservation communities. However, beginning with the first graduating class, Navajo students took advantage of the training but did not necessarily conform to policy makers’ expectations. Copyright 2019...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 January 2016
... O'odham sacred stories. Socioethical expectations modeled in the petitions challenge the Indian Office's efforts at assimilation and its conception of modernity based in Western hegemony, revealing a counterhegemonic definition based in mutually beneficial responsibilities and in what later advocates call...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., including raids in which captives were taken, resulted in Comanche deaths outnumbering the captives who were eventually assimilated. Hence, rather than compensating Comanche population decline, as is often assumed, those expeditions brought about a net population loss. I further argue that Comanches...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 537–565.
Published: 01 October 2013
... situate and contrast contemporary Indian-European relations in central and eastern North America as either a “middle ground” or a “native ground.” Yet these constructs reproduce the very narratives they were intended to challenge. By framing Indian responses to colonialism as a binary of assimilation...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 407–427.
Published: 01 July 2021
... changing relationship with corn over time highlights the effects of removal, allotment, and assimilation on the Oneida within the American context. Finally, while change occurred, the WPA interviews uncover continuity in Oneida Country as members struggled to maintain their relationship with corn and other...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 215–235.
Published: 01 April 2016
... are not conventional modes of historical writing, either indigenous or Western, but in the first case a Roman Catholic catechism adapted into pictorial form and in the second a religious drama linked to Renaissance and baroque European performance traditions. Both genres had been assimilated into indigenous textual...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 243–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that undermined the value of the Welsh language and culture which provided some in the United States with additional motivation to abandon their old-world characteristics and to become fully assimilated Americans. That being said, while the Welsh community in the city eagerly and speedily became Americans...