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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...
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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 (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 (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 (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...
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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...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 500–501.
Published: 01 July 2010
... roles. They continued to go on wide-ranging visits to family and friends,
despite missionary calls to stay put. They worshipped in church, but upheld
dreams as gateways to the sacred. In these ways and more, Wampanoags
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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 (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...
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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 (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 (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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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 (2005) 52 (3): 503–532.
Published: 01 July 2005
... with necessary items for the spirit's journey to the afterlife. The second was to cease hunting for one year. In 1846 some fur traders observed unprecedented departures from these customs, due perhaps to the influence of the fur trade,missionaries, or repeated epidemics. Although conditions seem to have favored...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Astrid Steverlynck This article examines the role of amazon women during the first centuries of European exploration in lowland South America by analyzing the accounts produced by conquistadors, missionaries, and explorers from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The accounts are analyzed...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 421–444.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., a persistent legend claims that large numbers were driven to extinction by missionaries and petroleum companies after oil exploration began nearby in 1964. This article reconstructs the final decades of Tetete history beginning with the rubber boom and analyzes their subsequent use by diverse actors in modern...
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