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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 35–67.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Anna J. Willow Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 497–498.
Published: 01 October 2024
...John W. Hall Although a relatively short book, The Cutting-Off Way is too rich to summarize fully here. In part, this is because half of the book’s eight chapters are derived from earlier publications and have their own theses and lines of argument. They cohere rather well, however...
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in Change Amid Continuity, Innovation within Tradition: Wampum Diplomacy at the Treaty of Greenville, 1795
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Published: 01 April 2017
Figure 5. (a) Greenville Treaty belt (fragment). Note cut fringe on left. Courtesy of Ohio History Connection (H50297). (b) Fort Stanwix Treaty belt, 1784. Courtesy New York State Museum, Albany, NY. (c) Greenville Treaty belt, digitally restored according to the author’s analysis. Image
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in Calling Moose: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Example of Northern Tutchone Scapulimancy from Fort Selkirk, Yukon
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2025
Figure 3. Lateral surface of moose ( Alces al ces) scapula, with cut scapular spine. Government of Yukon photo.
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 January 2018
...James D. Keyser Abstract Cheval Bonnet, a small petroglyph site located along Cut Bank Creek in northern Montana, contains coup-counting and horse-raiding narratives from the early 1800s. By careful comparison to known Crow-style rock art and robe art imagery, most of the petroglyphs at the site...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 647–666.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to be with her parents, she informed them how she was or how she was feeling. Her father told her that she needed to have a search and a ritual work performed, that the healer would cut or break what was happening (to the woman). The young woman and her father only listened to what the healer said, when he...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 321–330.
Published: 01 April 2008
... is rather different from
hers. While Kassam subsumes all five drums under the same tale of origin,
my informants attribute something special to the one of Alganna. “Unlike
the wooden drums of other phratries it is made of metal. It is said to have
been cut from the drum of Karrayyu [the senior clan...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 January 2018
... to the site in portioned cuts of meat (more likely if the animal was processed elsewhere and the cuts were brought to the site as exchange commodity, for instance). Thus, the body-part representation of white-tailed deer ( fig. 5 ) may provide some clues as to the importance of butchering on site and indicate...
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Figure 3. Lateral surface of moose ( Alces al ces) scapula, with cut scapular spine. Government of Yukon photo. ...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 171–204.
Published: 01 January 2002
...).
This epidemic could easily have spread to the Pueblos. Unshagi Pueblo
builders felled a tree in 1577, and Puyé Pueblo builders cut another tree in
1574 (Robinson et al. 1972: 12, 20).
1559–60 Influenza...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 597–630.
Published: 01 July 2012
... times so that its inter-
pretation remains guesswork. The masonry platform was most likely built
around the extant boulder, and Van de Guchte argues that the platform
walls were intended to be approximately two meters high, since traces of
cuts for the accommodation of building blocks...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 594–595.
Published: 01 July 2014
... against parts of
her head—notably her face—had “profound sexual overtones” (185). Men
used threats of face cutting to control women; women cut other women’s
faces in retaliation for suspected sexual dalliances with their husbands.
Eyes and mouths were offensive weapons; staring could constitute...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 191–215.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Figure 5. (a) Greenville Treaty belt (fragment). Note cut fringe on left. Courtesy of Ohio History Connection (H50297). (b) Fort Stanwix Treaty belt, 1784. Courtesy New York State Museum, Albany, NY. (c) Greenville Treaty belt, digitally restored according to the author’s analysis. Image...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 January 2005
... to be a tricky proposition for
Ranonggans. When people assert differential rights to the land, they are
also understood to be asserting a corresponding social division between
themselves and all others who might have a connection to the land. For
those claiming to own land, cutting off other people in this way...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 January 2014
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such as coal and lead, although extracted on a very small scale, were also
regulated and restricted to citizen use only. In 1841, a law was passed that
prohibited the felling of pecan trees (a common way of harvesting the nuts
had once been to cut down the entire tree) (Hewes 1978: 29). The same act...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
... to fire at them. As their horses broke away, the detachment attempted to advance toward the Indians, firing volleys but with no effect. As the mass of warriors from downstream neared, Elliott’s party was pressed back westward. With their horses now killed, stampeded, and cut loose, they sought protection...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... [sounding] ‘ chich ’” (this refers to the onomatopoeic “word” of the whistle) (Sahagún 1950–82 , bk. 9, chap. 14:64). 20 The priest then proceeded to cut off each sacrificial candidate’s hair from the crown of the head, the site of the vital tonalli soul (López Austin 1989 : 182). Thus, the “message...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 497–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
... of obsidian blades, the Descrittione says that those rasoy (razors) tagliano non altrimenti che se fossero di fino acciaio (“they cut no differently than if they were of fine steel”), while Ulloa’s translation, also dealing with obsidian rasoi , states that tagliano come fossero di acciaio (“they cut...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 443–444.
Published: 01 April 2016
... enslaved captives on the brig Amistad cut short the final leg of their Middle Passage from the Windward Coast of West Africa to fresh cane fields in Cuba. They killed the cook, then the captain, and resolved to return to Sierra Leone. After the rebels spent seventeen months in a jail in New Haven...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 589–633.
Published: 01 July 2005
.... Under the ill-advised policy of Jeffrey Amherst, the British
cut back considerably on their Indian presents after the war, especially
those that could function as weapons, but Indians still demanded a steady
supply of trade goods at western posts.43 Two lists for the northern colo-
nies from 1761...
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