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...David C. Posthumus Converting the Rosebud: Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886–1916 . By Harvey Markowitz . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2018 . 320 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 hardcover.) Copyright 2019...

..., and we are free to hear and follow them.”34 Why was the Yankton leader so committed to Catholicism? According 452 Robert Galler to De Smet, he chose Catholic missionaries for several practical reasons. As previously noted, he believed...

..., rather than describe the pro- cesses by which the Ópatas became Catholic (which they eventually did and which Yetman analyzes later in his work), the author simply states that the Ópatas were Catholicized (55). Minor issues aside, Yetman’s work is an important contribution to the literature...

... for Ethnohistory 2010 Courting Catholicism: Nahua Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Mexico City Jonathan Truitt, Central Michigan University Abstract. Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-​language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church...

... alliance and the other signified French and Illinois Catholicism. In The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America, Tracy Neal Lea- velle employs the titular Catholic calumet as a symbol for the nature of reli- gious conversion in the Great Lakes and Illinois Country...

... responded to diseases by petitioning Indigenous and mixed-race medical specialists to heal the infirm in lieu of, or in conjunction with, Catholic officials. Because Native ritual specialists outnumbered the clergy, priests were informed of diseases after parishioners fell ill. Much to the clergy’s chagrin...

... analytical approach. From there, Hamann moves to the heart of his analysis, namely, a series of thematic chapters addressing the diversity of Catholic practices (chapter 3); material culture, particularly mosques and sculptures of Indigenous deities (chapter 4); iconoclastic violence (chapter 5); practices...

...M. Kittiya Lee The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-Century Brazil . By de Castro Eduardo Viveiros . Translated by Morton Gregory Duff . ( Chicago : Prickly Paradigm , 2011 . i + 104 pp. +iii, translator's note, acknowledgments...

...Douglas Cole Libby People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro . By de Carvalho Soares Mariza . Translated by Metz Jerry Dennis . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii + 321 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, postscript...

...Gregory Evans Dowd This article evaluates the role of indigenous Catholicism in the so-called Pontiac's War (1763–66), revealing that Catholic Indian communities at points recently occupied by the British refrained from hostilities. The argument supplements, but does not supplant, evaluations...

... in their khipus and made accurate calculations based on them. The analysis and reconstruction of Cuzco’s calendar-demographic khipus is framed into the history of Catholic catechesis, which included early efforts at colonizing indigenous ways of thinking and experiencing time through tactile, visual, and sonic...

..., the social structures based on the principles of collectivity and reciprocity that both shaped Indigenous and Catholic practices, especially concerning the intimate relationship between the local population and the images involved in the cult; and second, the importance of the natural space and its elements...

...- tianity. As Elkin (1940: 243–4) notes, Arapaho people ‘‘seemed to take to the missions more easily than to any other phase of White culture’’ and, more precisely, embraced Catholicism more than Protestantism: The Catholics...

..., describes the work that continued into the postcolonial period, and profiles some of the missionaries who have contributed to the foundation of the Catholic Church in northern Kenya over the last fifty years. American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Baur, John 1990 The Catholic Church in Kenya...

...Juan Luis Rodriguez This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic...

...John F. Schwaller This article examines the practice of ordaining young men because of their personal language ability, a process referred to as an ordination a título de lengua . As a result of reforms codified by the Catholic Church in the Council of Trent, prospective priests were required...

...Julia Sarreal Both the Crown and Catholic missionaries believed that frontier Indians needed to practice settled agriculture and animal husbandry in order to become civilized. For over a century Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní Indians of South America tried to Europeanize mission inhabitants...

... a 1590 date, and the latest was written in 1835. Of these many documents, 373 are wills or testaments. The collection is particularly rich in wills for the years 1724 to 1759. Only 56 wills mention bequests of property to heirs; the rest are brief, formulaic attestations of belief in the Catholic Church...