... Ethnologist 17 (1): 131 -50. White, R. 1991 The Middle Ground: Indians,Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Whitten, N. E., Jr., D. S. Whitten, and A. Chango 1997 Return of the Yumbo: The Indigenous Caminata from Amazonia to Andean...

...James Barber This essay examines the extension of British colonial control across the Lake Rudolf region, investigating the motives for British decisions and the relationships that developed between the colonizers and the local tribes. On both sides there was uncertainty. Among the local peoples...

...Yvonne P. Hajda During the early contact period (1792-1830), distinct patterns of social organization made slavery in the region centered on the lower Columbia River somewhat different from slavery found farther north along the Northwest Coast. The maximal Northwest Coast culture area was a two...

... and Global Interaction 3. (New York: Berghahn, 2006. xv + 225 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Book Reviews Before Albany: An Archaeology of Native-Dutch Relations in the Capital Region, 1600...

... . Znamenski Andrei 2003 Through Orthodox Eyes: Russian Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Dena'ina and Ahtna, 1850s–1930s . Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press . Guest Editor’s Introduction: Early Engagements Implicating Governmentality in the North Pacific Region—Divergent Visions...

...Ira Bashkow This paper is a report on millennial rumors that were circulating in 1998 in the Arapesh-speaking region of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Given New Guinea's anthropological reputation as the land of millennial movements,we might expect the turning of the millennium to generate...

... Essays 411 eval Europe as well as other civilizations with ample written records. From ‘‘Acadia’’ to ‘‘zooarchaeology entries describe individual sites, regions, artifacts, features, events, and periods. They discuss analytical methods and summarize...

... of Russia” on the matter. 1 Since the late seventeenth century, Spanish officials began to implement colonial policies aimed at subduing an unconquered region of Honduras they referred to as Leán y Mulia. Today this region comprises the modern departments of Yoro and Atlántida. The Spanish named...

... with their ancestral territory, by using their year-round activities as the guiding temporal framework to connect their current lives with the old process of creating and maintaining a region that became their homeland. References Basso Keith H. 1996 . Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among...

... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...

... historians would no doubt readily pick Geronimo, the infamous shaman and warrior usually associated with the Warm Springs Apaches from that region. Likewise, if asked to name a Comanche Indian from Texas, most would choose Quanah Parker, chief of the Kwahada band and last of that tribe to surrender...

...Julie L. Reed Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees . By Boulware Tyler . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2011 . xi + 234 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $69.95 cloth...

...Mark Harris Abstract Building on Neil Whitehead’s work in northern South America, this article considers the formations of two different deep-forest regional networks. Though these Amerindian spaces have origins in the precolonial past, this article analyses their shaping in the seventeenth...