... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... leaders 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...

...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...

... considers 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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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 the...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

..., the rise of the institution of debt servitude, affecting both indigenous Yucatec Mayan and working-class mestizo populations, and the rise of encompassing political rhetorics of order, progress, and nation building among Porfirian government officials and pueblo-level landowning gentry. El pueblo both...

... Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian population of the peninsula, which supplement the brief, impressionistic accounts of historians. American Society for...

...Frederic Hicks On the eve of the Spanish conquest, and in the decades immediately thereafter, the indigenous population of Tlaxcala, in the Valley of Puebla, east of the Basin of Mexico, was grouped into four kingdoms ( tlahtocayotl or altepetl , generally called cabeceras in Spanish) of pre...

...Sarah Peelo The motivations for relatively rapid incorporation of Native Californian populations into the Spanish mission system are the subject of anthropological and historical debate (e.g., S. Cook 1976; Coombs and Plog 1977; Duggan 2000; Guest 1979; Hackel 2005; Jackson 1999; Larson, Johnson...

...Dana Velasco Murillo This article discusses the creation and evolution of indigenous government in the colonial silver-mining town of Zacatecas. Initially, nonnoble native migrants from central and western Mexico constituted the basis of the city's indigenous population. Living in informal...