... analysis places First Nations people at the center throughout. In fact, the narrative argues persuasively that tribal and band diplomatic procedures and demands for using fictive kinship prac- tices dominated and even shaped the negotiating sessions for generations. The result is an analysis...

...Leslie Offutt Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State . Edited by Medrano Ethelia Ruiz and Kellogg Susan . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2011 . xvii + 264 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, tables, bibliography...

...Leslie Offutt Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856 . By Lipsett-Rivera Sonya . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . xii + 317 pp., preface, illustrations, bibliography, index . $40.00 paper.) Copyright 2014 by American Society...

..., 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...

...John F. Schwaller Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico . By Díaz Mónica . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . xii + 229 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth...

... of an important new voice in Mexican history. The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Free- dom in Colonial Cuba, By María Elena Díaz. (Stanford, Stanford University Press, xviii + pp., preamble...

... People Honoring Identity and Negotiating Cultural Tourism Patricia Pierce Erikson, University of Southern Maine 6933 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:3 / sheet 113 of 178 Abstract. This article considers the historical context, cultural...

...Peggy Goede Montalván Negotiated Settlements: Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism . By Wernke Steven A. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . xix + 371 pp., figures, tables, appendix, index . $79.95 cloth.) Copyright 2014...

...-Giving. Berkeley:University of California Press. Commentaries Negotiating Globalization: Contemporary Pacific Perspectives Robert J. Foster, University of Rochester We can hold as self-evident at least one truth about globalization, past or present. People everywhere meet what comes...

... to the Americas, including a request for “paintings” of the urban and natural landscape, without much detail on the project’s guidelines. The varied responses sent back to Spain are known as the Relaciones Geográficas de Indias. This essay investigates the cultural negotiations and potential for Indigenous...

...Farina King Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico’s Indian Boarding Schools . By Gram John R. . ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . xviii+242 pp., illustrations, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, appendix, notes...

... Thomas , 97 – 109 . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Shepherd Jeffrey P. 2010 . We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Sweet Kathryn L. 2011 . “ Political Negotiation and Jurisdiction of the Navajo Nation...

... Nija’ib’ K’iche’ títulos and examples from other Highland Maya títulos, this article argues that the Highland Maya títulos served as instruments in negotiating power in the immediate community. As community records composed by indigenous scribes using the alphabet introduced by the colonizers, the títulos...

...Daniel F. Harrison Abstract The Treaty of Greenville (1795) was noteworthy for the extensive use of wampum by both Western Confederacy leaders and the American negotiator, Anthony Wayne. Analysis of the rhetoric of the negotiations and the wampum article used reveals structural correspondences...

...Susan Elizabeth Ramírez Abstract This article focuses on educational initiatives, the negotiations and resistance these efforts generated, and the barriers to these efforts during late colonial times. After a brief overview of formal and informal instruction, two examples of efforts to establish...

...Elizabeth R. Bell The Rab'inal Achi , a Maya drama originating in the sixteenth century, contains an encoded discourse about the human body. Using four components—the heart, the whole body, the navel, and the head—this play explores and negotiates the territorial disputes of the Maya region during...

...Avis Mysyk; Edgar de Ita Martínez Abstract Throughout the colonial period, disputes over the inheritance of property were common among indigenous peoples, both nobles and commoners. From the outset, they became familiar with and adept at negotiating their interests from within the colonial legal...

... their communities on the northern Great Plains in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Through their actions in battles and diplomatic negotiations, they showed themselves to be particularly skilled in conflict resolution. This article highlights two key instances in which Métis women used both courage...

... sides in the conflict, but they expressed their support through diplomatic practices rooted in material and ritual reciprocities of negotiation, letter writing, and gift giving. By centering how Mariluán and Coñuepan imposed interethnic ritual negotiations ( parlamentos ) and diplomatic protocols...

... of shaping and negotiating interethnic relations and social status. I close the introduction by suggesting new avenues for research, including language use in everyday life, the development of regional forms of languages, and the making of language ideologies locally and colony-wide. Copyright 2012...