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... within northern Algonquian cosmologies rather than Western perspectives if it is to be adequately accounted for in future discussions. Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Reviving Witiko (Windigo): An Ethnohistory of “Cannibal Monsters” in the Athabasca District of Northern...

... (the Turkana community). Competition over resources for livestock husbandry contributed to cattle rustling between Ngturkana and their nomadic pastoralist neighbors. The punitive raids of 1901, 1913, 1915, and 1917-18 by the British led to the exodus of Ngturkana to other districts of Kenya and to Karimojong...

... with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony’s primary inland mining district from the Atlantic coast. Actively engaging settlers, soldiers, and agents of the state, the Botocudo contested Portugal’s geopolitical...

...Sean S. Downey This study reconstructs the settlement history for twelve related Q'eqchi' Maya villages in the Toledo District of southern Belize using oral history interviews, archival records, and the Catholic parish birth register. The study evaluates two hypotheses for explaining the identified...

...Kenton Storey Abstract This article is an examination of the impact of the pass system on First Nations people from the Treaty 4 District of Western Canada. The pass system, which was implemented by the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) in 1885, was a system of administrative control that required...

... enshrined by the building of more than a dozen great-houses at Chaco, with others in outlying “clan” districts, that continue to benefit all of the Pueblos to this day. American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Adams, E. Charles 1991 The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult . Tucson...

...: half-breed rights under the NW Angle Treaty (No. 3), 1875 . MU1391, Box 7-9, Item 1 Mattagami, Temiskaming District Indian Accounts (HBC) , 1784-1893 (Fur Trade Papers F431);Box 7-9, Item 1 (Matawagamingue 1828). Arthur, Elizabeth 1973 Thunder Bay District 1821-92: A Collection...

... missions of the Bible Church Mission- ary Society built early in the 1930s at Sirata Oirobi and Wamba, in Sam- buru District, and at Marsabit, in Marsabit District. For the Catholics the only exceptions were Baragoi and Maralal missions, both in Samburu Dis- trict, which were built in the 1950s...

... South Nyanza District, Kenya Colony and Protectorate, November 1948 Standing out defiantly at a public gathering in the Gusii highlands of west- ern Kenya in the waning days of 1948, Nashon Kamau and approximately fifty other men took a considerable risk, boldly declaring that they were...

... officials therefore sought, with limited success, to extend effective control over Maori districts through the Resi- dent Magistrates system introduced after 1846, through cautious efforts to give some limited recognition to Maori customs within the framework of the law, and by various other...

... established the Tribunales de Vagos (Vagrant Tribunals), which required the creation of a tribunal in every partido (judicial district). The proclamation that created these tribunals defined vagrants as men who made a living through, engaged in, or were suspected of engaging in illicit activities, men who...

... pueblo of Justla- huaca to complain to the district judge in a Spanish court, she explicitly tes- tified that she knew all along that she had the ability to seek legal retribution Ethnohistory 61:3 (Summer 2014) DOI 10.1215/00141801-2681768 Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 498...

...- ates and those in the districts. Further, the focal points of decision making shifted. During ‘‘the scramble London was directly involved, with Lord Salisbury (prime minister and foreign secretary) leading the way. When the scramble was over, attention moved to the central government in Uganda...

... communal lands in the northwest. In the 1880s, state governors ordered district prefects (jefes políticos) and town councils to parcelize and distribute ejidos to pueblo residents, and circulars to that effect were issued by the federal Secretaría de Fomento (Secretariat of Development...

... for Ethnohistory 2022 In this deeply researched provocative study of slavery in the Natchez district, Christian Pinnen, associate professor of history at Mississippi College, makes an important contribution to the literature on slavery in North America’s borderlands. Focusing on the Natchez District between...

..., or kaimka, Miskitu society gradually partitioned into Sambo and Tawira domains (Figure 3). By the second half of the eighteenth century, the two domains each contained two districts overseen by leaders who received commissions from...

...Figure 1. Riosucio and Neighboring Districts (ca. 2021). Map by Daniel Vallejo Soto; based on Appelbaum 2003 : 3. ...

... autonomous Indian towns were reincorporated as city districts, and Spanish officials sought to deprive indigenous residents of their status as Indians and urban citizens. After independence, Indian status lost all legal recognition (as it did throughout Mexico), and the city’s Indian districts were stripped...