... for the University of Colorado Press. Are you an academic press dedicated to the open publication of scholarly work or a private book club focused on dis- seminating the ideas of a small group of members? Your published record suggests...

... and the Mohawks further to the west, and on the other side the Dutch West India Company and the patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, the private colony of Amsterdam merchant Kiliaen van Rensselaer. These four groups were con- nected by the fur trade, which changed over the course of the seventeenth century...

..., acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, index. $29.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Book Reviews Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground. By Christina Taylor Beard-Moose. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. 185...

...Robert C. Schwaller Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550. By Ethilia Ruiz Medrano. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006. x + 320 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) American Society...

... but were blind to the fact that the Wabanaki peoples already understood themselves to be home. For the Passamaquoddy at Pleasant Point (Sipayik), resources such as birch bark and firewood were scarce, prompting them to harvest wood on private property for survival. Tension between private property...

... objects from Indian communities a century ago—into private and public collections, for aesthetic and scientific purposes—an ethnohistorical approach finds intersections of exchange within Nicholson's extensive correspondence that reveal a complex web of relationships among buyers and sellers. Copyright...

...Doug Kiel During the first decades of the twentieth century, a new generation of Native American intellectuals and activists established national organizations such as the Society of American Indians (SAI) and grappled with issues such as private property, reservation industrialization, traditional...

...Patricia Fournier-García; Lourdes Mondragón During the colonial period, Indian republics were formed as were private holdings in the Otomí region of the Mezquital Valley. The indigenous population was deprived of fertile agricultural lands while ranchos and haciendas raised cattle, affecting...

... in convents, and participation in religious brotherhoods and theatrical performances—their influence in their society becomes apparent. Nahua women's religious responsibilities in Mexico City lay between the officially recognized positions of men in the public arena and women's private responsibilities...

... of the Lords of Death and Destiny, Mictlantecuhtli and Tezcatlipoca. Moreover, the essay shows how the ancient Nahuas considered the intelligibility of animal languages and engaged in active dialogues with the animal representatives of the gods, a form of communication that encompassed both the private...

... on its own terms. On the other, the lawyer-historian gaze may provide critical insight into the workings of the law in past processes of privatization and commodification of Indigenous lands. Legal training better equips historians for understanding the technical details of land transactions, lawmaking...

... issues and ongoing efforts to privatize Indigenous lands, and an afterword by Stacy L. Leeds contextualizes the recent decision of the Supreme Court in McGirt v. Oklahoma . Although the essays gravitate around colonial efforts to divide and dispossess, Indigenous resiliency represents the dominant theme...

... to the late 1800s. Greer challenges the idea that these colonists replaced an indigenous commons with private property. Instead, he argues that early modern Europeans lived in a feudal world of overlapping claims to property in lands that were often held in common. They were, according to Greer, more...

... of their productivity or their potential as competitors, would have merited more effort, more investment than others. But at least two classes of private hold- ings characterized the pre-Conquest land system. Tecpantlalli, prebendal...

... to be appropriately Maya for the external state funders. Add to this the sharp neoliberal turn taken by Mexico in the early 1990s with NAFTA. Social support infrastructure was being rapidly withdrawn or privatized. What this meant for Ek’ Balam and its surrounding municipality was a tectonic transformation...

...: the use of food in Aztec rituals. Morán aims to further contextualize this topic with representations of food, deities, and rituals from stoneworks, ceramics, and murals. Morán’s first objective, following the quadripartite theoretical organization of Michael Smith, is to describe private/popular...

... times but that was later appropriated by the British to serve as a nominal government functionary (Bolland 1987; Farriss 1984). Throughout this period there were multiple attempts at economic development in the region, principally by leasing land to private enterprises for logging operations...

... impulses were central to the successful campaign against water privatization in Cochabamba in 2000; the Aymara protests over water, land, and coca cultivation rights starting that same year; Chapare coca farmers’ resistance to forced eradication in 2000–2003; and the popular coalition against neoliberal...

... Review Essay tion of regions where the Left’s political power was legitimized. The violent use of force by the counterreformation movement via the nation’s military and private paramilitary runs parallel to the counterrevolutionary e¨orts in other parts of Latin America as described...

... together in a fluid manner and without any discontinuity. Li begins by tracing changes in Peru’s mining industry from the early 1900s to state control in the 1970s and 1980s and then to privatization in the 1990s. She brings together content from multiple mining sites while analyzing the conflicts...