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The Right to More Than a Cabbage Patch: Akimel O'odham Sacred Stories and the Form and Content of Petitions to the Federal Government, 1899–1912

Jennifer Bess
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3325438
Published: 01 January 2016
... to find something to eat.”36 In diction as in numbers of signatories, Akimel O’odham petitions are con- sistent in their inclusiveness throughout the era, contrasting with petitions of the Menominees, whose logging industry of the 1880s divided petitioners against commercial logging from those...
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Diné: A History of the Navajos; “For Our Navajo People:” Diné Letters, Speeches and Petitions 1900-1960

Maureen T. Schwarz
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 667–669.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-3-667
Published: 01 July 2004
... photographs. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) ‘‘For Our Navajo People Diné Letters, Speeches and Petitions 1900– 1960. Edited by Peter Iverson. Photographs edited by Monty Roessel. (Al- buquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 275 pp., illustrations. $34.95 cloth, $20.95 paper.) Maureen T. Schwarz...
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Indian Claims Commission: Political Complexity and Contrasting Concepts of Identity

Pamela S. Wallace
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 743–767.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-4-743
Published: 01 October 2002
...Pamela S. Wallace Complexity in cross-cultural interaction is apparent within the Indian Claims Commission ( icc ) proceedings of the 1950s. The U.S. federal government and Creek Indians both in Oklahoma and east of the Mississippi joined forces to suppress the icc petition of the Yuchi, a small...
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Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado–Gila River Region, 1771–1783

Naomi Sussman
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7298819
Published: 01 April 2019
...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...
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The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

Robert C. Schwaller
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 713–738.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642725
Published: 01 October 2012
... often acculturated in both Hispanic and indigenous cultures. As people in the middle of colonial society, they were uniquely positioned to navigate within and between the two dominant cultural spheres of colonial Mexico. Using Inquisition documents, criminal records, and petitions to the crown...
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Reading Anishinaabe Identities: Meaning and Metaphor in Nindoodem Pictographs

Heidi Bohaker
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 11–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-051
Published: 01 January 2010
...Heidi Bohaker Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region consistently signed treaties, petitions, and other paper documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries with pictographic representations of their nindoodem (clan) identities. Close study of these pictographs reveals...
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Wabanaki Homeland and Mobility: Concepts of Home in Nineteenth-Century Maine

Micah Pawling
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 621–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3633232
Published: 01 October 2016
... Among the most outspoken and persistent petitioners was Ichabod Chadbourne, whose previous success in acquiring damage costs led him to relentlessly petition for redress. Over time he grew more impatient and supplied the legislature with additional information to substantiate his case. In his opinion...
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The Earliest Known Text in Latin by a Nahuatl Speaker: Juan de Tlaxcala, “Verba sociorum domini Petri Tlacauepantzi” (1541)

Andrew Laird
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 509–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11513026
Published: 01 October 2024
...Andrew Laird Abstract In the 1500s, don Pedro de Montezuma, son of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Montezuma II), petitioned for the return of land and estates in Tula, fifty miles away from Mexico City. A report that was compiled in Latin in 1541, now generally known as “Verba sociorum domini Petri...
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Monument, Mobility, and Modernity; Or, the Sachem of Southwark and Other Surprising Commemorations

Coll Thrush
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 607–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2717786
Published: 01 October 2014
...Coll Thrush Offering an overview of the other four essays in this special section, this essay also opens up broader ground for consideration. It begins with the story of Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem who traveled to London in 1736 to present a land-rights petition to George II but who died...
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Making Common Cause: Yanktonais and Catholic Missionaries on the Northern Plains

Robert Galler
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 439–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-004
Published: 01 July 2008
...Robert Galler On 28 January 1886, Crow Creek leaders sent a petition with over one hundred signatures to the Office of Indian Affairs affirming their interest in a Catholic mission school. Within the year, the first buildings were in place for an educational institution that served as a Catholic...
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Central Mexican Indigenous Coats of Arms and the Conquest of Mesoamerica

María Castañeda de la Paz
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 125–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-038
Published: 01 January 2009
... the indigenous lords personally asked for them; other- wise, the Crown would not have bothered to issue any. Gibson also notes that these indigenous petitions were made possible by an organized govern- ment and, above all, a solid knowledge of Spanish forms of law on the part of the petitioners.8...
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Crossing Over: Caciques, Indigenous Politics, and the Vecino World in Caste War Yucatán

Rajeshwari Dutt
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 739–759.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2717849
Published: 01 October 2014
... Uicab brought damning condemnations against don José Lugardo Barce- lón, the juez de paz primero (primary justice of the peace, or magistrate) of Teya. In his petition to the governor, Uicab accused Barcelón of forcing indígenas (indigenous people) in the community of Teya to work on hacien- das...
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Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook

Melissa Rinehart
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 583–585.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681849
Published: 01 July 2014
... communities operate, resist, and champion their efforts within this political landscape. Rae Gould’s question at the beginning of her essay on the Nipmuc Nation petition concerning “why historical documents written by outsiders in the past and interpreted by outsiders in the present continue...
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Los escudos de armas indígenas de la colonia al México independiente

Rebecca Horn
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 696–697.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-6991580
Published: 01 October 2018
... too distant from Spanish authorities in Mexico City. Some petitions never reached the authorities, and other requests were denied when officials failed to recognize sufficient merit. In such circumstances, indigenous towns at times resorted to falsified coats of arms, some appearing in the documents...
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An Indigenous Congregation at the Colegio of San Gregorio: Dowries for “Indias” and the Economy of Salvation

Mónica Díaz
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 477–491.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9881269
Published: 01 October 2022
... was the daughter of the indios principales Francisco Pérez de León, who was deceased, and Micaela Josefa, from the town of Acatzingo in Puebla. Although the petition is drafted as a legal document, it contains traditional religious rhetoric in which the petitioner presents herself “begging for divine mercy...
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Indian Colonial Actors in the Lawmaking of the Spanish Empire in Peru

Alcira Dueñas
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 51–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4260656
Published: 01 January 2018
... the call for Indian defenders and procuradores. 15 Nieto de Vargas maintained that indigenous litigants from Quito and other provinces followed suit, choosing defenders and procuradores from their own Indian nation. Native petitioners from El Cercado constructed their 1735 petition following legal...
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Felipa's Braid: Women, Culture, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca

Bianca Premo
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 497–523.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681768
Published: 01 July 2014
... so violently that “all her guts had spilled.”9 María and her father, Juan, went to the court of the alcalde mayor in Villa Alta, the capital of the Spanish colonial district by the same name, to submit a petition related to the incident. But the petition they submitted did not seek justice...
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Indigenous State Making on the Frontier: Arhuaco Politics in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 1900–1920

Catalina Muñoz
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 301–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3455315
Published: 01 April 2016
... of all the Arhuacos. All these actions, the petitioners argued, breached the procedures mandated by Decree 68 of 1916. Their petition suggests that they either were familiar with the law themselves or relied on someone who was to draft the petition for them. One way or another, they built a legal case...
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Another View on “Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians”

Jack Campisi, William A. Starna
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 779–791.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-779
Published: 01 October 2004
... in research support so that one’s conclusions can be placed in the fullest context, we wish to disclose our involvement in UHN’s effort, financed in large measure by the Native American Rights Fund. Since 1984–5, we have written the UHN’s Petition for Federal Acknowledgment (1985; hereafter UHN Petition...
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Peopling the Place, Placing the People: An Archaeology of Brothertown Discourse

Craig N. Cipolla
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 51–78.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1435392
Published: 01 January 2012
..., the authors appropriated the rhetoric of social evolution, e·ec- tively placing distance between their community and other native groups, past and present. The petition reads in part: “Your petitioners have long since laid aside the ancient manners and customs of our forefathers and have adopted those...
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