... critiques those historical accounts of Indian people marked by abrupt breaks—the result of disease, violent conflict, or migration. Thrush instead weaves connections all the way from the native people who met Arthur Denny and his party on the beach at Alki Point in 1851 to the present. Second, he...

...Gregory E. Smoak Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life . By Daschuk James . ( Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press , 2013 . xxii + 318 pp., acknowledgments, introductions, illustrations, bibliography, index . $39.95 cloth...

...Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba . By Graden Dale T. . ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2014 . x + 291 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, index . $35.00 paper...

...- ing statistics on the dreaded tuberculosis, influenza, measles, alcohol, sui- cides, and venereal disease, among others. Kelm contends that aboriginal bodies are the ‘‘sites of struggle between indigenous and imported healing...

...Manuella Meyer Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 . By McCrea Heather . ( Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press , 2011 . 288 pp., acknowledgments, afterword, illustrations, map, bibliography, index . $27.95 paper...

... Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, By Robert Boyd. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, xv + pp., preface, introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. cloth.) Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut To my...

...Hilary M. Carey; David Roberts Of all the various infections that afflicted Aboriginal people in Australia during the years of first contact with Europeans, smallpox was the most disastrous. The physical and social impacts of the disease are well known. This article considers another effect of the...

...Paul Kelton Current scholarship on the impact of epidemics on American Indians is inadequate to explain how Indians survived. Too often Indians are given no credit for being able to combat emergent diseases, and too often epidemics are depicted as completely undermining native religious beliefs...

...Mary Ellen Kelm At the turn of the twentieth century, social medicine was emerging as a key contributor to the production of racial hierarchies. At this time, the North American medical community expanded its interest and involvement with native people and applied its beliefs about race and disease...

... to raids, drought, or disease. Turkana historians have thus argued that the representation of Turkana militarism for continued territorial expansion is more a Western creation, for the Turkana were more concerned to defend their acquired territory than participate in unprovoked belligerence against...

...-American diseases leading up to the tribe's massive depopulation in the late nineteenth century. The most striking finding is that the cultural practices and religious customs with which the Kansa responded to these tremendous changes made matters worse for them. Their adherence to death customs, in...

... caused by the collapse of the native population in the early 1830s from malaria and other introduced diseases. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 “Complete Liberty”? Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Social Change on the Lower Columbia River, 1805–1838 Gray Whaley, Southern Illinois...

...Ashley Riley Sousa Historians examining relations between Indian women and non-Indian men on the California frontier have focused on the gold rush era and later. These interactions were often violent and degrading to native women and a source of disease, despair, and population decline in Indian...

... a vast array of fruits, vegetables, and game meats, and until the Civil War, their health problems appeared to be maladies such as wounds, parasites, contagious diseases, and illnesses associated with unsanitary conditions. Around the mid-1860s, natives' diets began changing in two ways: either they...

...William L. Preston The thesis that California's native peoples were infected with Old World diseases prior to the founding of the first mission in 1769 is attracting increasing attention but is not widely accepted by students of the state's prehistoric and colonial periods. The perceived lack of...

..., and large parts of their territory were lost. The greatest loss occurred in the years from about 1636 to 1641, when Pueblo populations, already diminished as a result of various forms of Spanish exploitation, flight from the region, and, perhaps, earlier epidemics, suffered a major disease event that...

... population does not appear to have suffered from the demographic collapse associated with introduced diseases. Second, the native population at Santa Catalina consisted of speakers of at least three languages and was drawn from a wide geographic area. The diversity of the native population at Santa Catalina...

... have intrigued the author over the course of his career. Personal reflections are offered of research activities that engage indigenous resistance to Spanish intrusion, demographic collapse in the wake of conquest, the link between disease outbreaks and Maya demise, and the role played by Pedro de...

..., the horrific morbidity and mortality rates for native American peoples in the aftermath of European conquest. Alchon critiques the idea of ‘‘New World exceptionalism’’ regarding epidemic disease, the idea that smallpox, measles, and the bubonic plague had a more catastrophic effect on native...

... explanations for, the horrific morbidity and mortality rates for native American peoples in the aftermath of European conquest. Alchon critiques the idea of ‘‘New World exceptionalism’’ regarding epidemic disease, the idea that smallpox, measles, and the bubonic plague had a more catastrophic effect on...