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Presidential Address: A Rainbow of Spanish Illusions: Research Frontiers in Colonial Guatemala
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 409–435.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that 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...
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Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to understand why not more has changed since that earlier disease outbreak. Why did what we learned from that pandemic not prevent this tragedy? And what can be done to avert more of what Paul Farmer has called “stupid deaths”? Perhaps that is the gift of this book: it shows a way to go beyond the “co...
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“I Would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost”: The Influenza of 1918–1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 January 2025
... for Ethnohistory 2025 nonreservation boarding schools Indian Office influenza pandemic disease outbreaks mitigation efforts On 25 October 1918, Superintendent Charles T. Coggeshall of the Fort Bidwell Indian School in California wrote an alarmed telegram to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato...
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Puebloan Historic Demographic Trends
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 171–204.
Published: 01 January 2002
...: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 . Berkeley:University of California Press. Prem, Hanns J. 1991 Disease Outbreaks in Central Mexico during the Sixteenth Century. In Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America . Noble David Cook and W. George Lovell, eds. Pp. 20 -48...
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Witnesses to Demographic Catastrophe: Indigenous Testimony in the Relaciones Geográficas of 1577–86 for Central Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 309–331.
Published: 01 April 2015
... . Owensby Brian P. 2008 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Prem Hanns J. 2001 Disease Outbreaks in Central Mexico during the Sixteenth Century . In “Secret Judgments of God”: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America...
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Indigenous People and Smallpox in Argentina’s Desert Campaign, 1879–1881
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2024
... helped set in motion processes that led to smallpox becoming endemic in cristiano settlements and then exposed Indigenous Pampas-Patagonians to it at a crucial moment of vulnerability. Three themes characterize the Indigenous people of Pampas-Patagonia’s vulnerabilities to major outbreaks of disease...
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A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 January 2005
... argument—that the nature of
colonialism in the Americas exacerbated the impact of epidemic disease—
is undermined by the failure to link specific epidemic outbreaks to specific
colonial practices so that demographic decline can be traced in juxtapo-
sition to pathogenic and colonial process. She seeks...
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A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 January 2005
... argument—that the nature of
colonialism in the Americas exacerbated the impact of epidemic disease—
is undermined by the failure to link specific epidemic outbreaks to specific
colonial practices so that demographic decline can be traced in juxtapo-
sition to pathogenic and colonial process. She seeks...
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A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 January 2005
... argument—that the nature of
colonialism in the Americas exacerbated the impact of epidemic disease—
is undermined by the failure to link specific epidemic outbreaks to specific
colonial practices so that demographic decline can be traced in juxtapo-
sition to pathogenic and colonial process. She seeks...
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Nahua Responses to the Matlazahuatl or “Mystery” Plague of 1805
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... by Indigenous people to adapt to their new disease ecologies. 7 This record also reveals the extent to which colonial authorities worked to infantilize their Indigenous subjects, even as they otherwise relied on them for their expertise over the natural world. When reporting on the outbreak, doctors, priests...
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Presidential Address: Memories of Better Times before the Christians Came to Mexico and Guatemala
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 April 2021
...: fifty, thirty, and three years earlier (Acuña 1984b : 240). People from the Caxcane pueblo of Teucaltiche in the north said that there had been three major outbreaks of disease in the last eighteen years (Acuña 1987 : 307). Each of these outbreaks caused widespread devastation. People used estimates...
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Avoiding the Smallpox Spirits: Colonial Epidemics and Southeastern Indian Survival
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 45–71.
Published: 01 January 2004
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against it. Thus when the smallpox outbreak occurred, Cherokee elders
imagined the disease ‘‘to proceed from the invisible darts of angry fate,
pointed against them, for their young people’s vicious conduct In addi-
tion, the elders equated the epidemic with a natural disaster, calling small-
pox...
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A Different Look at Native American Depopulation: Comanche Raiding, Captive Taking, and Population Decline
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
... captures following the deadly smallpox epidemic of 1780–81 or
the outbreaks of the same disease documented in 1799–1802 and 1861–62.
Therefore, an interest in obtaining captives for incorporation was not the
primary motivation for Comanche raids following epidemics.
Instead, the increase...
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Portents of Plague from California's Protohistoric Period
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 69–121.
Published: 01 January 2002
... an epidemic among the Chu-
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mash (Cook 1939; Larson 1994: 134; Pearcy 1997: 34–35).
The curious delay in the initial outbreak of epidemic disease among...
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Smallpox and the Choctaw Civil War
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 63–86.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in May and June. By September 2020, one in ten Mississippi Choctaws had tested positive for COVID-19 (Walker 2021 ). To counter COVID-19, Choctaws in Oklahoma and Mississippi drew from a long history of contingent responses to the community health crises posed by infectious disease (Debo 1934 : 234–35...
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Saint Christopher in the Amazon: Child Sorcery, Colonialism, and Violence among the Southern Arawak
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 507–543.
Published: 01 July 2002
...: The Disease. Weekly Epidemiological Record 42 (71): 313-8. Available on-line at www.who.int/gpv-dvacc/diseases/Yellowfever.htm . 1999 The who Position Paper on Varicella Vaccines. Available on-line at www.who.int/gpv-dvacc/diseases/PPVaricella.htm . World Health Organization (who)/Division of Control...
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Missionization and the Persistence of Native Identity on the Colonial Frontier of Baja California
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 225–262.
Published: 01 April 2010
... to some degree of immunity
acquired after these previous outbreaks. With detailed reports that included
births, deaths, and baptisms, it would be possible to make a stronger case
about the efects of epidemic disease and other demographic trends at Mis-
sion Santa Catalina (see, for example...
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“Through Death’s Wilderness”: Malaria, Seminole Environmental Knowledge, and the Florida Wars of Removal
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 3–25.
Published: 01 January 2024
... with the natural world. Finally, this essay recasts disease in the history of Native North America as potentially liberatory, as different lifeways exposed different populations to mosquitoes and their diseases. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2024...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 473–508.
Published: 01 July 2007
... refused to live near any white settlement fol-
lowing the agency’s cholera outbreak in 1833, they moved to a location
near Fool Chief’s village and the spread of disease appeared to halt. There-
after, reports of illness among the Kansa ceased for several years, which
further suggests White Plume’s...
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Embracing Ambiguity: Native Peoples and Christianity in Seventeenth-Century North America
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 247–259.
Published: 01 April 2003
... century, the Pueblo Revolt of and the Pow-
hatan uprising against the English of Virginia in
Massachusetts Bay,
The outbreak of King Philip’s War in punctured a peace between the
English...
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