...C. Jill Grady; Peter T. Furst Recent genetic research regarding Mexico's Huichol Indians has revealed DNA evidence that suggests that the tribe's historical origins lie in Mexico's northeastern desert near San Luis Potosí, thereby affirming Huichol migration theories previously asserted...

... intentionally suppress infor- mation, thus revealing a map’s “hidden rules.”4 In How to Lie with Maps, Mark Monmonier reminds us of the paradox inherent in the practice of mapmaking: the distortion of reality.5 For Monmonier, an accurate and useful map “must tell white lies,” an aperçu resembling...

... who did not participate in the dance, but who witnessed its events. This includes biracial Lakotas and white husbands of Lakota women who lived on the reservation. Part 4, “The Lie of the Messiah,” looks at the perspective of “progressive” Lakotas. This includes white-educated and Christian Lakotas...

... was by insisting that the commissioner’s verbal assurances on these matters be confirmed by other means. In some communities, such as Fort Providence, they requested that his words be written down, because as Chief Lemoin says, “You people say things like that but you lie, so you better put it down...

... for Ethnohistory 2021 While Colin Calloway’s latest book returns to a topic the author has visited throughout his career, eighteenth-century Native history, it does so from a new angle. In The Indian World of George Washington , Calloway’s objective is to attract readers whose interests typically lie...

... of choice within broader political, economic, and social conditions that lie completely beyond their control. But calling this kind of limited choice “agency” threatens to render the term analytically meaningless. It also ignores the millions who made a wrong choice—or no real choice at all—and disappeared...

... and would continue until midnight. The person telling the story would lie down, and everyone would listen, lying flat” (25). Goertz describes competing ideas about ownership of stories, observing that some believe stories belong to families, and others, with the community. Some, such as the Moon stories...

... such as that of the Hispanic Society of America. Given the tremendous value of the lost books for the history of sixteenth-century Latin America, one wonders how many other rich historical manuscripts lie dormant, awaiting the moment when they can reveal their secrets to modern scholars. Reference Luján Muñoz Jorge...

... for Ethnohistory 2022 2021 was annus horribilis in Canada. Preliminary investigations suggested that numerous unmarked, untended child graves may lie around defunct Indian Residential Schools. Statues of revered founders of public education and of the nation were toppled. Ongoing devastation was attested...

...Christine Hunefeldt; Valerie Saiag Regarding widespread assumptions that indigenous spirituality is incompatible with the Christian Bible or that missionaries brought God to Amazonia, Nayap tells Brown that “there is no lie bigger than this. We lived with God. We had God. God was with us...

..., strikethroughs”—leave “traces” that are evidence of the ways in which “imperial projects were both conceived and executed” (183). In short, this volume is a tribute to DeMal- lie’s influence in the field of ethnohistory—despite DeMallie’s own misgiv- ings about his ability to teach what to him...

... in the record and potential mistranslations. The strengths of the book lie in its interpretations of genealogical ma- terials, which indicate the intense nature of the political and economic ties and conflicts that existed among various ethnic groups living in the central valley of Oaxaca during...

... origins lie at the beginnings of collective life. He thus approaches change within an evolutionary frame- work, which can be seen in his concern for the way relatively egalitarian Great Men systems change into Potlach or Big Men...

... know little, and perhaps care less, about the nature, history, and continuing relevance of Indian treaties, Nation to Nation presents a collection of essays, interviews, and vignettes by prominent scholars on the laws, trea- ties, and diplomacy that lie at the heart of the historical and ongoing...

... projects were both conceived and executed” (183). In short, this volume is a tribute to DeMal- lie’s influence in the field of ethnohistory—despite DeMallie’s own misgiv- ings about his ability to teach what to him is a “vocation” and not just a “profession” (251). While this volume...

... to them’’ Is it not poetic irony that Clastres was undoubtedly as anachronistic among the Ache in the Paraguayan forests as his book now seems in the context of present-day anthropological pursuits and narratives? Two major weaknesses of the book lie in the writing style and in the construction...

... their origins to religion, diet, marriage, politics, and trade relations. Steller uses his knowledge of peoples on both sides of the north Pacific to make a very strong argument that the origins of Native Americans must Review Essays 647 lie in Siberia...

... of this book lie seven case studies written by senior and junior scholars from a range of disciplines—art history, ethnohistory, an- thropology, literature, and American Indian studies. These chapters em- phasize seventeenth- and eighteenth-century U.S. documents and images. Barbara Belyea, for instance...

... theories for understanding the Maya and the encounter—his goal, a thorough critique of the neoliberal state, is admirable. Higgins argues that the current standoff between the Zapatistas and Mexican state is really nothing new; rather, it has roots that lie in the structure of the conquest...