... historical genres, Siksika historians/keepers of winter counts revitalized the indigenous genre in order to remember their past on their own terms. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 The Right to Possess Memory: Winter Counts of the Blackfoot, 1830–1937 Blanca Tovías, University...

... human rights. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Akimel O'odham Pima sacred stories petitions natural resources modernity References Allen Nathan 1995 “O'odham Himdag: The O'odham Way.” Wicazo Sa Review 11 , no. 2 : 87 – 89 . [ Allison Lloyd ] 1974...

...Melissa Rinehart Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook . Edited by Den Ouden Amy E and O'Brien Jean M. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . 365 pp., introduction, afterword, appendix, index . $26.95...

... analysis and interdisciplinary methodology will further the study of highland Maya during the Postclassic period. From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. By...

...Amy E. Canfield Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future . By Hillaire Pauline R. . Edited by Fields Gregory P. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2016 . xiv+426 pp., list of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, illustrations...

...Cameron Shriver Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood . By Norrgard Chantal . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series . ix + 201 pp., acknowledgments, appendix, endnotes, bibliography...

... informal leaders, he was emblematic of multiple Mi'kmaw cultural and economic survival strategies. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Mi’kmaq in the Halifax Explosion of 1917: Leadership, Transience, and the Struggle for Land Rights Jacob Remes, SUNY Empire State College...

...Debra McDougall Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands—whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization—have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development...

...Michael Hughes Abstract By 1815 the Red River Métis were coalescing as a social and political group, asserting their rights to land as an indigenous community. Their opponents, the Hudson’s Bay Company, sought to establish a colony at Red River, while their allies, the North West Company, claimed...

... ethnic Fijians. These recent events, involving a corporation purveying a global commodity and investment practices once colonially imported to Fiji, have been carried out with much objectification of the local, of indigenous ownership,and of place belonging as a basis for rights. The article finds...

...Gwen Reimer; Jean-Philippe Chartrand A recent court case has brought into focus, for the first time in Ontario(Canada), legal and historical questions concerning the rights extending from historic Métis communities in that province. Within this litigation context, research into the nature, extent...

...Gordon L. Pullar A Creole social group or estate, primarily the offspring of Russian men and Native women, was established in Alaska by the 1821 Russian-American Company charter. The Creoles enjoyed special rights and privileges in Russian America until the United States took over the jurisdiction...

... light of one another sheds light on the selective and ideologically skewed way in which they represent the past. While La memoria de don Melchor Caltzin focuses on a strict set of events to argue for the preservation of the rights of a Nahua community residing in the pre-Hispanic capital of Tzintzuntzan...

...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 of...

..., the resurgence of Cofán and Siona communities presents a compelling story of survival and reconstruction, not isolation. It bears directly on current discussions of ethnicity, citizenship, and indigenous rights in contemporary Amazonian society. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Simone Athayde; Marianne Schmink Indigenous peoples have been active players in the process of securing land rights and conserving about 21 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. In this article, we examine advances and contradictions in the process of “adaptive resistance” by Amazonian indigenous...

... succession with rules of descent. Furthermore, it is suggested here that Taino rules of succession were not simply about the right to govern through descent but were a form of customary law that was manipulated by chiefs to consolidate and stabilize power. Thus the vagueness present in the rules of...

... circles of factions, neighbors, elders, and kin in this “community of memory” who wished to claim special rights and prerogatives over their shared past. As such, the Códice de Metepec represents a prototype of a dispersed and highly fragmented “canonic tale” that is made up of autochthonous memory plots...

... own rights. Even though the state's structures were based on patriarchal and racist notions of authority, they offered Mayan women considerable space to contest male, ladino, and elite power. American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 “Hard Working, Orderly Little Women”: Mayan Vendors and Marketplace...