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... to resettle Indians from the sertão. The area was unspecified, but, given where the missions were located, the Indians must have been from the north bank in the Lower Amazon. The request indicated that some of the Indians would end up in Belém making manioc flour to support the seat of the Franciscans...

...Naomi Sussman Abstract Drawing on expeditionary diaries, official correspondence, Indigenous-authored petitions, and incident reports, this article argues that between 1771 and 1783, the Quechán and “Maricopa” alliance networks controlling the Lower Colorado and Gila Rivers compelled Spanish...

...Yvonne P. Hajda During the early contact period (1792-1830), distinct patterns of social organization made slavery in the region centered on the lower Columbia River somewhat different from slavery found farther north along the Northwest Coast. The maximal Northwest Coast culture area was a two...

...Gray Whaley This article analyzes social change in the emerging colonial world of the lower Columbia River from 1805 to 1838, particularly regarding gender and sexuality. It teases out distinctions among formal marriages, informal “custom of the country” arrangements, the exercise of sexual...

...Melissa Rinehart Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes . By Buss James J. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 328 pp., illustrations, introduction, epilogue, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments . $34.95...

... in Indian Territory. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-028 Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715–1836. By H. Thomas Foster II, with contributions by Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund and Lisa O’Steen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xxii + 292pp., illustrations, maps...

...Thomas J. Lappas Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700–1850. Edited by Beatty-Medina Charles and Rinehart Melissa . ( East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2012 . xxxii + 246 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...

...Paul C. Rosier Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855–1984 . By Beck David R. M. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 . xxxi + 319 pp., acknowledgments, preface, illustrations, bibliography, index . $50.00...

...H. Dieter Heinen; Alvaro García-Castro Current Amerindian societies in the Venezuelan lowlands do not reflect the complex interethnic organization that once prevailed on the lower Orinoco. That organization was based on a sophisticated subsistence specialization such as the exchange...

... the Waccamaw-Siouan story in a 1921 pageant of the history of the Lower Cape Fear River, but they labeled it Cherokee and did not seem to consider asking the Waccamaw-Siouan to participate. The second half of the book investigates the Waccamaw’s own per- ceptions of themselves through a history...

... school for nearly one hundred years and currently exists as a tribal school. The question is how and why did this institution come into existence? This essay argues that late nineteenth-century Lower Yanktonai leaders followed tribal tradition in establishing alliances to promote the best interests...

... fossils were first discovered in the lower Omo Valley at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the first multidisciplinary international expedition to investigate the region was that of the International Omo Research Expedition in 1967. The National Museums of Kenya participated in the first IORE...

... connections. Rooted in the Lower Creek town of Coweta and analyzing sources from the vantage point of Indian country, it shows some of the different ways in which Creek Indians remained informed of and connected to developments in the colonial Southeast. Exploring the networks forged by one particular Indian...