... of a series of artefacts scattered in European and North American collections. She rightly points out that their collection history does not nec- essarily indicate their place of origin, as objects were traded up and down the Northwest Coast. She uses the basic criteria selected by Bill Holm...

... 339 social, political, and economic conditions surrounding the hunt and the decline in herd numbers. He supplies much-needed historical context on the animal’s role on the western plains in mid-nineteenth-century political and military struggles, both between Indians and Europeans...

...Rotem Kowner American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548–1853 Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa The forced opening of Japan by an American squadron in1853–54 provided the Western world with a long-awaited opportunity...

...Frederick H. Smith American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 European Impressions of the Island Carib’s Use of Alcohol in the Early Colonial Period Frederick H. Smith, College of William and Mary While a tremendous amount of research has explored historical patterns of alcohol use...

... than sixty years is a fact that consti- tutes its own recommendation. Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan. By Philip P. Arnold (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999. xvii + 287 pp., introduction, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. $45.00 cloth.) Alan R...

... and the American republic expanded, native people became less likely to adopt Europeans and Afri- can Americans into their kinship circles. It was during this time that Indian captivity practices were revised, and modern-day notions of race were absorbed into Native American societies. Snyder...

... and the American republic expanded, native people became less likely to adopt Europeans and Afri- can Americans into their kinship circles. It was during this time that Indian captivity practices were revised, and modern-day notions of race were absorbed into Native American societies. Snyder...

...Amy George-Hirons When we consider questions of alphabetic, cultural, and visual literacy in colonial Mesoamerica, an analysis of the way in which the producers of the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua appropriated European astronomical texts and images from medieval reportorios demonstrates much about...

...David J. Silverman Book Reviews 189 Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870. By Roland Bohr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xv + 468 pp...

...Jaime J. Awe; Christophe Helmke This article describes the recent discovery of a sword and olive jar of European origin in two separate cave sites in the Roaring Creek Valley in central Belize. Analysis of the sword and olive jar places their date of manufacture between the late sixteenth...

...Kathryn Magee Labelle The Wendat-Huron Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America . By Seeman Erik R. . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 . 163 pp., prologue, epilogue, acknowledgments, notes, suggested further reading, index . $19.95...

...J. Frederick Fausz From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 . By Ethridge Robbie . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . xii + 344 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, maps...

...Terry Rugeley Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche . Edited by Tiesler Vera , Zabala Pilar , and Cucina Andrea . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2010 . xx + 320 pp., foreword, maps, glossary, bibliography, index . $75.00 cloth.) Copyright...

... zone for Amerindians fleeing European colonization. On the contrary, this article argues that the migrations and movements of people toward and within this Amerindian space have to be understood as a continuation of a pre-European set of indigenous networks. Through the reconstruction of multilingual...

... and other intruders also saw the need for alliances with Indian men in order for their endeavors to succeed. Through a process in which Europeans and Indians played an equal part, the early modern period saw the creation of several new indigenous leaders. The chieftains who interacted with outsiders were...

...Astrid Steverlynck This article examines the role of amazon women during the first centuries of European exploration in lowland South America by analyzing the accounts produced by conquistadors, missionaries, and explorers from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The accounts are analyzed...

...Evan Haefeli To understand the significance of stories of first contact in which native peoples around the world are said to have mistaken Europeans (or their goods) as gods or godlike, this article examines written and oral accounts of such encounters in the context within which they were...

...Tom Arne Midtrød Frightening rumors of conspiracies and plots were a prominent feature of relations between Native Americans and Europeans in the colonial Hudson Valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While these alarming reports usually had no foundation in reality, they nevertheless...

... survived as discrete political and cultural communities. The interactions between these distinct communities in turn shaped the Great Lakes Region as much as they did the relationship between natives and European newcomers. Thus this essay imagines the colonial encounter not as a binary relationship...