...William Balée Traditional ethnobiological knowledge ( tek ) in Amazonia can be elucidated by comparative study within a language family. Some of this tek has been more resistant to change than certain elements from other cultural domains, such as kinship and politics. Although much tek has been...

... and the arrival of the fur trade; the Alaska Highway; churches and schools; new technologies like snowmobiles, cars, and trucks; government support structures like family allowances and other transfer payments; various laws; and so on. Nadasdy’s main concern is the modern era, when Kluane people...

...Loretta A. Cormier Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. viii + 340 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, figures, references, index...

... redesign, contracted to Disney Imagineering, obscured both traditional, egalitarian gender roles and a history of Cherokee fragmentation (chapter 5). However, her interlocutors are sanguine about tourism: they say it has enabled them to protect tradition and support their families. And increasing...

...Melinda Marie Jetté One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Saskatchewan . By Macdougall Brenda . ( Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press and University of Washington Press , 2010 . xxii + 335 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $37.95...

...Allyson M. Poska Transatlantic Obligations: Creating Bonds of Family in Conquest-Era Peru and Spain . By Mangan Jane E. . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . xi+247 pp., bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017...

... the evidence presented by Curet and concludes that matrilineal principles provided the basic foundation on which these chiefdoms were built. All in the Family: Descent and Succession in the Protohistoric Chiefdoms of the Greater Antilles— A Comment on Curet William F. Keegan, Florida Museum of Natural...

...Melinda Marie Jetté Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History. New Directions in Native American Studies . Edited by St-Onge Nicole , Podruchny Carolyn , and Macdougall Brenda . Foreword by Campbell Maria . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2012...

... Earth Anishinaabeg viewed their identity as tied to religion, economics, and kinship as well as to family and lifestyle. Those Who Belong may well serve as encouragement for those tribes who are facing declining membership due to a constitutional requirement of a minimum one-quarter (or even one...

...Fay A. Yarbrough Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War . By Kendra Taira Field . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2018 . xxv + 225 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, index. $38.00 hardcover.) Copyright 2019 by American Society...

...Rose Stremlau Web of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood . By Christina Gish Hill . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2017 . xii +382 pp., illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 hardcover.) Copyright 2019 by American...

...Andrew Denson Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation . By Stremlau Rose . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . xiii + 320 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper...

... as evidenced by their construction of family and other relationships. But it also serves as a means to document their differences, culturally and socially, from mainstream North American society. Genealogical research, conversely, reveals little about the mentalité of the Metis because its purpose is simply...

... the Androscoggin River in Maine southward to the north shore of Massachusetts made up the group Champlain called the“Almouchiquois.” American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Finding the Almouchiquois: Native American Families, Territories, and Land Sales in Southern Maine Emerson W. Baker, Salem State...

...Robert M. Hill, II The new political offices introduced after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica created new challenges and opportunities for indigenous elites and their supporters. This article traces the careers of three Kaqchikel-Maya families in sixteenth-century Guatemala and reveals a range...

...Kevin Mulroy This is a story of two hidden identities. It focuses on the family history of Phil Wilkes Fixico (aka Philip Vincent Wilkes and Pompey Bruner Fixico), a contemporary Seminole maroon descendant of mixed race who lives in Los Angeles. Phil is one-eighth Seminole Indian, one-quarter...