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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 221–241.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., describes the work that continued into the postcolonial period, and profiles some of the missionaries who have contributed to the foundation of the Catholic Church in northern Kenya over the last fifty years. American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Baur, John 1990 The Catholic Church in Kenya...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Missionary</span> Factor in the History of Northern Kenya during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 748–750.
Published: 01 October 2010
... emphasis on the importance of place-based history exemplifies an
Indigenous approach to historical knowledge that is worthy of high praise.
doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-045
Gideon’s People: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in
Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian Missionaries Who...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 655–657.
Published: 01 July 2004
... and missionaries and
those who read accounts of their suffering that they prevent the audience
from empathizing with indigenous peoples. Audiences might even derive
pleasure from extreme accounts of violence, because the materiality of pain
is never conveyed and colonial authors employed ‘‘a whole series...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo Abstract This article analyzes the violent deaths of two Jesuit missionaries in the regions of Marajó (Pará) and the Itapecuru River (Maranhão). Their tragic end serves as a starting point through which one can explore the social relations that took place between Europeans...
View articletitled, Rethinking the Amazon Frontier in the Seventeenth Century: The Violent Deaths of the <span class="search-highlight">Missionaries</span> Luis Figueira and Francisco Pires
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Ola Gunhildrud Berta Abstract In December 1857, Protestant missionaries arrived on Epoon Atoll to establish the first mission station in the Marshall Islands. The story of their arrival has historical interest and contemporary importance in the Marshalls because it has been used to form local...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 223–244.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Seth Mallios Historical narratives describing the demise of a sixteenth-century Jesuit mission on the Chesapeake grew from direct accounts of indigenous murder to elaborate constructions of the missionaries' divine sacrifice. A seriation of details from the seven contemporary Jesuit sources...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 439–464.
Published: 01 July 2008
... of their people. Rather than being mere recipients of a mission placed unilaterally on their land by zealous missionaries, Lower Yanktonais found common cause with Catholic leaders to establish a local mission school to educate their children. American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Making Common Cause...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 746–748.
Published: 01 October 2010
... that is worthy of high praise.
doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-045
Gideon’s People: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in
Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian Missionaries Who Served There.
Edited and translated by Corinna Dally-Starna and William A. Starna.
(2 vols., Lincoln...
View articletitled, Gideon's People: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian <span class="search-highlight">Missionaries</span> Who Served There
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 500–501.
Published: 01 July 2010
... linguistic community sustained Wampanoag
values and customs amid enormous outside pressure. Even in a patriarchal
colonial society, Wampanoags respected the female line and women’s pub-
lic roles. They continued to go on wide-ranging visits to family and friends,
despite missionary calls to stay put...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 322–324.
Published: 01 April 2013
...David W. Dinwoodie Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75 . By Bradford Tolly . ( Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2012 . xvi + 160 pp., preface, figures, notes, bibliography, index . $85.00 cloth.) Copyright 2013...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 449–477.
Published: 01 July 2009
... 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 “Obvious Indian”—Missionaries, Anthropologists,
and the “Wild Indians” of Cuba: Representations
of the Amerindian Presence in Cuba
Jason M. Yaremko, University of Winnipeg
Abstract. This article examines Amerindian identity...
View articletitled, “Obvious Indian”—<span class="search-highlight">missionaries</span>, Anthropologists, and the “Wild Indians” Of Cuba: Representations of the Amerindian Presence in Cuba
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 768–769.
Published: 01 October 2009
... expressions of ownership and title to land
and resources between indigenous and colonial newcomers. In a similar
vein, Susan Neylan traces how missionaries on the north coast of British
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Jonathan Quint Abstract This article reveals how Lake St. Clair Ojibwe communities limited newcomer encroachment and maintained territorial sovereignty by strategically absorbing and then expelling a community of Moravian missionaries and Christian Lenape. In 1782 the Ojibwe allowed Moravians...
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View articletitled, New Gnadenhutten, Moravian <span class="search-highlight">Missionaries</span>, and Ojibwe Land Tenure on the Clinton River, 1781–1787
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 69–127.
Published: 01 January 2007
... with the initial missions of the Franciscan friars. The earliest friars produced vocabularies, grammars, sermons, and confession manuals as tools for their missionary effort. By analyzing these missionary creations, we can approach an understanding of the friars' views of Maya sexuality. The Maya, however, often...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 417–438.
Published: 01 July 2008
... missionaries' production of dictionaries, grammars, and other forms of linguistic descriptions, and the Warao's own interpretation of the language encounter. At the beginning of the twentieth century, missionaries regarded Warao as incompatible with modernity and with the political developments of that time...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Julia Sarreal Both the Crown and Catholic missionaries believed that frontier Indians needed to practice settled agriculture and animal husbandry in order to become civilized. For over a century Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní Indians of South America tried to Europeanize mission inhabitants...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 79–98.
Published: 01 January 2014
... this time there was an Ojibwe named John Hall who joined and became a missionary in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, a historically significant black denomination. Hall felt camaraderie with blacks because, like Indians, they had endured oppression at the hands of whites. Also, he felt bonded...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and political organization. Following Hal Langfur, we can term this general making of spaces a re-territorialization. Critical social relations include those between Amerindian ethnic entities and their leaders, soldiers, and missionaries. This article focuses on a key spatial relation between Amerindian...
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View articletitled, The Making of Regional Systems: The Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá Regions in the Lower Brazilian Amazon, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Tsim D. Schneider; Lee M. Panich Abstract Research on Native American interactions with colonial institutions increasingly stresses the persistence of indigenous places and identities despite the challenges wrought by missionary, mercantile, and settler colonialism. This article expands...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
Published: 01 April 2019
... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...
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