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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 205–225.
Published: 01 January 2000
... for the fertility of the universe in which the health of people and the land reflected the state of moral order in Huli society. Failure in social behaviour, which could be gauged from the declining condition of the “skin” of the land, was attributed to an inexorable process of loss of the knowledge of customary...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 April 2015
... for Ethnohistory 2015 Indian Territory indigenous health indigenous foodways Five Tribes diabetes indigenous health decline traditional foods Sustenance and Health among the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Postremoval to Statehood Devon A. Mihesuah, University of Kansas Abstract...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 407–427.
Published: 01 July 2021
... in the community. The younger storytellers did not comment on cooking with Indigenous corn. The decline in growing, harvesting, cooking, and consuming traditional foods had an impact on the overall health of the Oneida people. Jessie Peters noted that the older generation warned him about straying from...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 309–331.
Published: 01 April 2015
... marriage as a means of controlling Indian sexual expression (see Burkhart 1989: 156–58), and secular authorities may have seen it as a possible brake on population decline. The RG laments about earlier marriage clearly reflect an indigenous viewpoint. The idea that sexual intercourse...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ( 1960 , 1968 , for example), few scholars believed the seemingly exaggerated claims of population decline made by Bartolomé de las Casas and other contemporaries who witnessed the dreadful effects of epidemic diseases. The surviving Relaciones demonstrate that Indigenous people were painfully aware...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 April 2016
...—in all its manifold yet connected aspects—has negatively impacted indigenous health and well-being” (173). References Crosby Alfred 1976 “ Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America .” William and Mary Quarterly 33 , no. 2 : 289 – 99 . Diamond...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 69–121.
Published: 01 January 2002
... 1985: 250; Reff 1987: 92). The consequences of the substantial depopulation that accompanied severe epidemics after 1769 extended far beyond economic and health concerns to shatter the entire fabric of indigenous...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 January 2005
... in the Americas (detailed by Alchon in the appendix), and now future research needs to be undertaken to understand indigenous conceptions of health and illness and practices of healing in general, particularly in response to epidemic disease, both before and after 1492. It would also be important to consider...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 January 2005
... in the Americas (detailed by Alchon in the appendix), and now future research needs to be undertaken to understand indigenous conceptions of health and illness and practices of healing in general, particularly in response to epidemic disease, both before and after 1492. It would also be important to consider...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 200–201.
Published: 01 January 2005
... in the Americas (detailed by Alchon in the appendix), and now future research needs to be undertaken to understand indigenous conceptions of health and illness and practices of healing in general, particularly in response to epidemic disease, both before and after 1492. It would also be important to consider...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Health and Welfare Records, National Archives of Canada. Gilman, Sander 1985 Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Race, Sexuality, and Madness . Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Press. Hall, G. Stanley 1903 The White Man's Burden versus Indigenous Development for the Lower Races. Proceedings...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 35–67.
Published: 01 January 2009
... context. It considers the blockade not as a manifestation of inherent indigenous environmentality but as a complex phenomenon predicated on Anishinaabe people's desires for self-determination, recognition of rights, and the power to decide what takes place on land they perceive as theirs. More broadly...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 721–744.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women’s perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evidence is contained in the eighteenth-century collection of healing chants known as the “ritual of the bacabs...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 543–544.
Published: 01 July 2001
... demonstrates the role of the convent in the reproduction of social power and prestige and, in the process, contributes to our under- standing of gender, family life, marriage, and motherhood. The organization of the book outlines the founding, growth, crisis, and decline of this spiritual economy...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
... indigenous communities. By recognizing that Moteuczoma suffered from illness rather than cowardice, we can understand how the Nahua authors of the Florentine Codex remembered their huei tlatoani and, by extension, the reaction of their community to the invasion and subsequent epidemics. The health...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 609–632.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., and many Tzeltal and Tzotzil indigenous communities, the INI employed bilingual indigenous “cultural promoters” to negotiate its programs in education, road construction, and public health. As it turns out, the INI's most innovative negotiating tool was a bilingual hand-puppet troupe, the Teatro Petul...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... steeped in tensions around Indigeneity, religion, and parental rights. Drawing on newspapers and other colonial records, the article examines how different Nahua families responded, centering their concerns and expectations—of immunization and religious and public health officials—to reframe critical...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Patricia Fournier-García; Lourdes Mondragón During the colonial period, Indian republics were formed as were private holdings in the Otomí region of the Mezquital Valley. The indigenous population was deprived of fertile agricultural lands while ranchos and haciendas raised cattle, affecting...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 225–262.
Published: 01 April 2010
... at Santa Catalina were not reproducing at replacement rates, other factors could conceivably be at play. As direct colonial involvement in the mission declined in the 1820s and 1830s, it is possible that indigenous fami- lies no longer had their children baptized or left the mission...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 195–225.
Published: 01 April 2024
... that beneficed positions were perpetual, it is likely that Ruiz de Alarcón perished between 1634 and 1639. He would have been in his midfifties. Not long after his arrival in Atenango del Río, Ruiz de Alarcón’s battle with his health, and ololiuhqui, began. He asserted that the Indigenous people venerated...
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