... the chronic labor problems that had plagued the former colony since its formation. Interdisciplinary research at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla and in its associated descendant communities offers a case study of some of the tactics that may have been used to control agrarian workers during the century...

...Emma Stelter Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939 . By David Calverley . ( Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2018 . viii + 224 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.). Copyright 2021...

...Alan Boraas; Aaron Leggett The almost one hundred years of Russian colonial occupation of Alaska resulted in the Russian-American Company's (RAC) controlling only a small territory with a small population and operating a generally unsuccessful economic enterprise. Contemporary Russian writers were...

... issues that stem from the imposed land management programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and practical issues in which the results of federal policies like allotment inhibit tribal access to and control over resources within Cherokee Nation boundaries. In this article, I trace the origins...

...Jean Michaud This article provides an overview of the recent interactions between the highlanders of northern Vietnamand the successive powers that controlled the state between 1802 and 1975: Imperial Vietnam until 1883, the French colonial state until 1954, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...

...Jeffrey C. Kaufmann Diverse attitudes toward Malagasy prickly pear cactus demonstrate that French colonialism was not a single cohesive strategy but was marked by contradictions and struggles. Struggles among groups of colonizers included not only the control of cactus but also its appropriateness...

... pluralism,which maintained both difference and congruity among traditions, Arapaho Catholics were empowered to control the boundaries between cultures and the flow of knowledge across them. Retranslation of the Our Father, or Lord's Prayer, through attention to multiple functions, meanings, and uses, offers...

... imperial invaders. Sadly, at the time neither of the protagonists could have predicted the subsequent unmitigated disaster for the Turkana in the aftermath of the Turkana Patrol of 1918, in which they had become the unwitting victims of a larger conflict for control of an imperial frontier. American...

...James Barber This essay examines the extension of British colonial control across the Lake Rudolf region, investigating the motives for British decisions and the relationships that developed between the colonizers and the local tribes. On both sides there was uncertainty. Among the local peoples...

... the missionaries and the Maya in their struggle for control over the complex nature of evolving colonial sexuality. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Friars, Parish Priests, and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545–1808 John F. Chuchiak IV, Missouri...

..., the INI's initial success in Chiapas also contained the seeds for its eventual failure. In its bids to overcome opposition to its programs, the INI relied heavily on its indigenous brokers. Many of these men later used their relatively privileged positions to control access to government resources...

... ongoing communal control, while komiti , at first based on European models but increasingly indigenized over time, also became important institutions of governance. Occasional Crown attempts to co-opt such institutions for its own ends were largely unsuccessful. Runanga and komiti were instead, although...

... consensus—which operate within the framework of strong interdictions against any person attempting to control another—and narratives from Navajo oral tradition about a deity known as The Gambler that focus on the dangers of gambling and the various forms of “enslavement” it can cause. It is relevant...

... operation. In 1819, the Cherokee National Council passed a law to control spirituous liquors, but this action inflamed the federal government which recognized tribal alcohol regulation as an expression of Cherokee nationalism. As a bone of contention between the Cherokee Nation and the United States...

... responded to the windigo, as colonial authorities created narratives around this disorder designed to increase their control over Cree and Ojibwa communities. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Spirit Beings, Mental Illness, and Murder: Fur Traders and the Windigo in Canada’s Boreal Forest...

...Alejandra Dubcovsky Indian information networks crisscrossed the colonial Southeast. Operating outside European control and hidden from European eyes, these networks' existence and importance have been assumed but never fully explicated. This article explores some of these inter- and intra-Indian...

...George Edward Milne Abstract Between 1669 and 1686, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle undertook several expeditions in North America. During his journeys, he relied on the services of numerous individuals who were under his control. Some were Indian slaves whom he exchanged like chattel during cross...

...Wolfgang Gabbert The Miskitu Indians of Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras are one of the most numerous indigenous groups in the southern part of Central America. Never conquered by the Spaniards during the colonial era, they first came under control of the Central American republics in the late...

... that made alphabetic writing a productive part of the project of reducción also made it impossible to control once introduced among the Maya. Alphabetic Literacy and Colonial Process in Yucatán William F. Hanks, University of California, Berkeley Abstract. The article outlines the formation...

...), of export work, of control of labor. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Berdan, Frances F., Richard Blanton, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Mary G. Hodge, Michael E. Smith, and Emily Umberger 1996 Aztec Imperial Strategies . Washington, dc: Dumbarton Oaks. Chevalier, François 1963 Land...