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Figure 1. The native population of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, 1500–1825 (Lovell [1985] 2015: 75–80, 158–86). Courtesy of Jennifer Grek-Martin.

The native population of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, 1500–1825 (Lovell ...

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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 1. The native population of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, 1500–1825 (Lovell [1985] 2015 : 75–80, 158–86). Courtesy of Jennifer Grek-Martin. More
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A Population History of the Huron-Petun, AD 500–1650

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Eric E. Jones
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 531–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-012
Published: 01 July 2009
... interested in a thorough and thoughtful study of the too often forgotten Midwest Latino experience. In a similar fashion, Ramos’s book, the result of impressive research as well, tells a fascinating story of how the population of Texas, under a developing republic, created a tapestry of regional...
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A Different Look at Native American Depopulation: Comanche Raiding, Captive Taking, and Population Decline

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Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2681714
Published: 01 July 2014
...Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez It has often been argued that the widespread Native American practice of capturing and adopting outsiders served, for some indigenous groups, as a way to recover from Euro-American–induced population decline. In this study I contend that Comanche looting expeditions...
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Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate

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W. George Lovell
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 260–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-260
Published: 01 January 2000
... historians with important insights that they will need to consider as they begin to explore this important subject. Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population De- bate. By David Henige. (Norman...
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The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874

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Nancy Shoemaker
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 518–519.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-518
Published: 01 July 2001
... of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, By Robert Boyd. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, xv + pp., preface, introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. cloth.) Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut To my...
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American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century

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Brian Hosmer
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 730–732.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-4-730
Published: 01 October 2001
... in hunter- gatherer research. The scholarship is outstanding, and Lee and Daly are to be commended. American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century. By Nancy Shoemaker. (Albuquerque...
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Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate

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W. George Lovell
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 468–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-2-468
Published: 01 April 2002
.... Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. $35.00 cloth.) Seth Garfield, University of Texas at Austin Brazil’s tropical climate and multiracial population have long sparked the interest...
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The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census: Between Ethnohistory and Historical Demography

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Amos Megged
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 289–315.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025340
Published: 01 April 2020
...Amos Megged Abstract While earlier census studies yielded population data mainly for the Tepetlaoztoc and Morelos regions of central Mexico during the 1530s and 1540s, this ethnohistoric study, based on a newly discovered manuscript, sheds light on household types and population density in the town...
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Missionization and the Persistence of Native Identity on the Colonial Frontier of Baja California

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Lee M. Panich
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 225–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-062
Published: 01 April 2010
... the demographic parameters of life at Santa Catalina as well as the ethnolinguistic composition of the mission's indigenous population. This analysis points to two important patterns that likely had implications for the persistence of native identity at the mission. First, the mission's native population does...
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Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography of Colonialism in the Gusii Highlands of British-Ruled Kenya

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Timothy Parsons
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 491–523.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1263866
Published: 01 July 2011
.... Theoretically, each “tribe” had a “homeland” that the state set aside for their exclusive use. Problems developed when more populous ethnic groups outgrew their assigned reserves and coveted the territory of European settler farmers in the “white highlands” and that of less populous tribes. The resulting...
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“In Contempt and Oblivion”: Censuses, Ethnogeography, and Hidden Indian Histories in Eighteenth-Century Southern New England

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Jason Mancini
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 61–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2821683
Published: 01 January 2015
...Jason Mancini By the end of the American Revolution, southern New England's Indian population had essentially been declared extinct through popular literature and prevailing opinion. At the same time, there were nearly 4,500 Indians documented in census records in southern New England, 50 percent...
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Rural Castas , State Projects, and Ethnic Transformation in Western Guatemala, 1800–1821

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Stacey Schwartzkopf
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 721–747.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2313885
Published: 01 October 2013
... describes casta populations in the Huehuetenango region in the final decades of colonial rule by examining census categorization, patterns of migration, occupations, land tenure, and casta relations with indigenous communities and royal authorities. These data question current assumptions regarding...
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Diagnosing the Discursive Indian: Medicine, Gender, and the “Dying Race”

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Mary Ellen Kelm
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-371
Published: 01 April 2005
... to this population. In the process, a new knowledge about native health was created that saw disease as both a racialized and a gendered phenomenon. Hoping to apply these linkages to a broader population, the medical community advanced assimilative and hybridizing strategies to improve native health by eradicating...
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Fitting Multiculturalism into Biculturalism: Maori–pasifika Relations in New Zealand from the 1960s

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Richard S. Hill
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 291–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-064
Published: 01 April 2010
...Richard S. Hill “Race relations” are an ever-present topic of public discourse and state policy formation in New Zealand. The emphasis is generally upon the relationship between the indigenous Maori, on the one hand, and the state and the majority ethno-cultural population group, the European...
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Dena'ina Resistance to Russian Hegemony, Late Eighteenth and Ninetenth Centuries: Cook Inlet, Alaska

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Alan Boraas, Aaron Leggett
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 485–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140722
Published: 01 July 2013
...Alan Boraas; Aaron Leggett The almost one hundred years of Russian colonial occupation of Alaska resulted in the Russian-American Company's (RAC) controlling only a small territory with a small population and operating a generally unsuccessful economic enterprise. Contemporary Russian writers were...
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Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru

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Manuel Medrano, Gary Urton
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4260638
Published: 01 January 2018
... River Valley. The revisit describes a census of the population of what are described as six pachacas (“one-hundreds”) administrative/census units that usually coincided with ayllus (the Andean clanlike sociopolitical groups). The document identifies 132 tributaries distributed across the six ayllus, all...
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The Feast of the Nazarene of Caguach: Religious Identity, Geography, and Community in the Archipelago of Chiloé

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Fernando Guzmán, Astrid Windus, Lorenzo Berg, Renato Cárdenas
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 303–328.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10443429
Published: 01 July 2023
... is the most important cult image of Chiloé, and its worship can be seen as a transcultural product of the contact between Europeans and the Indigenous population since colonial times. In order to understand the emergence and dynamics of the feast as well as its significance for Chiloé’s religious identity...
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Seneca Moieties and Hereditary Chieftainships: The Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Organization of an Iroquois Nation

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Thomas S. Abler
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 459–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-3-459
Published: 01 July 2004
... analysis of nonconfederacy “chiefly statuses” relative to population size,clans, and moieties. Contrary to the consensus in the literature,nonconfederacy chiefly status was hereditary within clans. In addition, the principle that balance should be maintained between Seneca moieties led to chiefly statuses...
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Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado–Gila River Region, 1771–1783

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Naomi Sussman
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7298819
Published: 01 April 2019
... officials to seek diplomatic entry points into a riverine “native ground.” Contemporary studies of late Bourbon Indian policy foreground colonial officials’ negotiations and treaty making with the Native populations that dominated northern New Spain. However, this scholarship has never systematically...
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Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier

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Erlend M. Johnson, Pastor Gómez Zúñiga, Mary Kate Kelly
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 301–328.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7298801
Published: 01 April 2019
... territories. The results of the analysis suggest greater Lenca- and Pipil- and smaller Ch’orti’-speaking populations than once thought, and emphasize the multilinguistic and frontier nature of societies in western Honduras. This study also highlights the viability of onomastic approaches in reconstructing...
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