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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 January 2020
... is a welcome addition to a limited selection of Lumbee scholarship. Her connection of the Lumbees with pivotal moments in American history challenges the commonplace notion that the history of Native peoples is fundamentally divergent from broader US narratives. The book’s schema invites other scholars to pull...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 521–522.
Published: 01 July 2020
... for scholars of Native American history and of the Early National period and should also interest general readers interested in those subjects. ...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 505–507.
Published: 01 October 2024
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 July 2024
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 January 2025
... these results, school superintendents and Indian Office officials downplayed the health crisis at the boarding schools, choosing instead to focus on stories of success. Scholars of Indigenous America have long recognized Indian boarding schools as a fruitful terrain for analysis. Since the 1980s, numerous...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 579–602.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., and so how they have interpreted Sir Walter Ralegh’s colonizing ventures. The map is the bedrock on which many scholars have erected their own interpretations of the indigenous polities of the coastal Carolina region. The “tribes” etched by De Bry and described by subsequent scholars, in other words...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 261–291.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., that text and his other writings have received comparatively little attention from scholars despite the rich opportunities these documents hold for exploring the indigenous world of his day. Much of the neglect stems from a reluctance to accept him as a “real” native person because he was born in Scotland...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 July 2016
...William C. Meadows Abstract The location and movements of the Kiowa prior to appearing in the historical record around 1700 in present-day southwestern Montana have long eluded scholars. This article presents new data from a family oral tradition relating to protohistoric (ca. pre-1700) Kiowa...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 689–714.
Published: 01 October 2006
...-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of “Guaranization” that has influenced scholars as much as—if not more than—the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical analysis of the Chiriguano political system, we attempt to recover the Arawakan heritage of this truly mestizo society...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 715–752.
Published: 01 October 2006
... scholars are recognizing: discourse concerning “globalization” and “indigenous” peoples, usually thought to be characteristic of the post-colonial period, may have had analogues that antecede the penetration of industrial capitalism and the entrenchment of European colonialism. American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 769–788.
Published: 01 October 2002
...James Taylor Carson For the most part, scholars have failed to incorporate geography into the interdisciplinary canon of ethnohistory. At the same time, geographers writing on native history have not integrated fully the ethnohistorical method into their own work. The essay explains...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 315–347.
Published: 01 April 2003
...Joshua A. Piker In the last generation, scholars intent on removing “tribe”from their narratives of colonial-era Native American history have repeatedly invoked “community” in its place. This development notwithstanding, community-centered projects are rare; Indian towns now appear...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 459–488.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Thomas S. Abler Scholars investigating Iroquois political institutions have focused on the Confederacy Council (or League), largely ignoring structure at the national(or tribal) level. Data from the Seneca Nation in the 1830s and 1840s, before the replacement of chiefs by an elected council, allows...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 647–666.
Published: 01 October 2019
... curanderos to improve her poor health. The article is an invaluable record of contemporary, indigenous healing dialogue and traditions, some of which have similarities with colonial-era practices. It is an example of a collaboration between an ethnohistorian and an indigenous scholar writing her own history...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 January 2019
... Sumaria relación de todas las cosas de la Nueva España . Scholars tend to focus on Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s role as a more or less reliable intermediary through whom the Codex Xolotl’s information has been transmitted. However, in order to better understand his contribution to Mexican ethnohistory...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Erlend M. Johnson; Pastor Gómez Zúñiga; Mary Kate Kelly Abstract Scholars argue that western Honduras was occupied by Ch’orti’ speakers in the sixteenth century. These reconstructions conform to nationalist pressures to present Honduras as Maya, by using Classic period (AD 200–900) archaeological...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 345–354.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., their behaviors and habitats, and their vibrant plumage. This special issue brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including art history, history, and biology, to promote discussion among the arts, social sciences, and natural sciences on the role of birds and feathers in Mesoamerica...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 537–549.
Published: 01 October 2020
... or exclude, disempower or empower, or advocate for equality or inequality. The address then asks how the politics of sameness and difference intersect with scholars’ use of sameness and difference in their analyses. It recommends that ethnohistorians think carefully about their word choices, assumptions...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Stephanie Schmidt Abstract This article considers questions of authorship in Juan Bautista Viseo’s “Second Sermon for Advent” about “frightful, and terrible signs” of Judgment Day. Although Bautista acknowledges important contributions by Nahua scholars in the production of his Nahuatl-language...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 January 2021
... forgotten by Marshall Islanders and overlooked by academic historians and historically minded scholars. References Abo Takaji , Bender Byron W. , Capelle Alfred , and DeBrum Tony . 1976 . Marshallese-English Dictionary . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press...