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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Martha Few Abstract This essay focuses on New World birds caught up in the eighteenth-century transatlantic trade with other living wild creatures, destined for imperial metropoles. Manuscript sources describing this trade, written by political officials, ships’ captains, doctors, naturalists...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 393–419.
Published: 01 July 2011
... on board captured slave ships to provide information to British naval officers. Numerous interpreters and translators were Africans or African descendants. Using language skills and knowledge of the Atlantic world, these “Atlantic Creoles” defended personal freedoms and the human rights of others during...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 445–466.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Jacob Remes When a ship explosion in Halifax Harbor destroyed much of the surrounding area, among the devastated places was Kebeceque, an informal Mi'kmaw settlement in Dartmouth that had been under non-Native pressure for decades. The white owner of the land had long insisted that the Department...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 265–285.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Noel E. Smyth Abstract In 1731 a French army in colonial Louisiana enslaved hundreds of Natchez families and shipped them to Saint-Domingue where they mostly disappear from the written records. This article analyzes tantalizing clues about Natchez families and other Native American slaves...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 789–820.
Published: 01 October 2002
.... Over a two-year period he chronicled daily interactions between the crew of his ship and members of a nearby Iñupiaq Eskimo village on the North Slope of Alaska. His categorizations of native aggression and gender differences are examined within the context of contemporary knowledge about Iñupiaq...
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Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 269–290.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Samantha R. Billing Abstract The Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean Coast of Central America, have long been recognized for their racial diversity. In the mid-seventeenth century, a ship of African slaves wrecked on the Mosquito Coast and subsequently intermarried with the Miskitu...
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in The Feast of the Nazarene of Caguach: Religious Identity, Geography, and Community in the Archipelago of Chiloé
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 1. Chiloé and parts of the adjacent coasts from HMS Beagle , 1835. In Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing Their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America and the Beagle ’s
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 407–443.
Published: 01 July 2007
.... Here too the relation-
ship ends in disenchantment as colonial conflict sours the initial wonder of
encounter, in this case transmuted into the magical experience of falling in
love.4
Apotheosis has such a powerful hold on the way contact is conceived
that it can apply to Europeans’ stuff...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 603–619.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... For those of us who work on indigenous slavery, evidence of diasporic and transimperial indigenous slaves on ship logs, in court cases, and in visual texts is sporadic. To put it simply: indigenous slavery lacks documentary density. The term traces is commonly applied to research findings on indigenous...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 363–384.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the offspring of
simple promyshlenniki. These men formed the crews of the ships coming to
Russian America and were the rank-and- file workers. Many of the fathers
of the first generation of creoles took part in the conquest of Kodiak by Gri-
gorii Shelikhov in 1784. There were also creoles who were...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 27–50.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Zealand cast him into the same category as New
Zealand’s European/white population.
Elisha Apes deserted from the New London, Connecticut, whaling ship
Ann Maria on its 1839–41 voyage and spent the next fifty years, until his
death in 1891, at Waikouaiti, or “Old Waikouaiti,” New Zealand...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 91–114.
Published: 01 January 2017
... In this short report, Quannapaquait captured one of the most difficult realities of King Philip’s War for native populations fighting against the English: slavery, whether actual or threatened. Unlike most enslaved Africans, who were largely unaware of their destination when they were shipped out from the West...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 January 2021
... late afternoon on 15 July 1852 that the Caroline set sail from Honolulu toward western Micronesia. Aboard the crowded ship were five missionary couples who were to be the pioneer missionaries in Micronesia, specifically Pohnpei and Kosrae. These were divided in two groups, with Opunui serving...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 597–624.
Published: 01 October 2010
... practice are perhaps even
more reliable for understanding identity construction than are voices speak-
ing in an abstract language of self-representation when filtered through a
European worldview.
Anthropologist Patricia C. Albers has suggested that interrelation-
ships between...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 757–758.
Published: 01 October 2019
... nineteen years old when he took ship on the HMS Resolution (the companion ship to Cook’s HMS Discovery ), served as a master’s mate throughout the voyage, which embarked to search for a passage (the Northwest Passage) and sailed well north of the Bering Strait. Along the way Cook had the good fortune...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 681–682.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in European ships and captives, demanded tribute payments, and addressed overseas monarchs as equals. Though largely forgotten as colonists and then citizens of the American republic suppressed memories of their own ineffectual political and military responses, and of their consequent victimization by Indians...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2023
... journey through history, with the collection serving as an underlying living entity, lying in wait, facing multiple challenges to return to its rightful home among the Niimiipuu. In 1847, missionary Henry Spalding shipped two barrels of Nez Perce material culture to his friend Dr. Dudley Allen in Ohio...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 October 2016
... as these same white people asserted their racial superiority off the ship. Similarly, Shoemaker exposes the complicated position of Native Americans in beach encounters and whalemen’s settlement in colonial contexts. Native Americans, aware of the complicated history of colonialism in their homes, nominally...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 363–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... aboard his ship. The two men then exchanged gifts. Columbus gave Guacanagarí red shoes, amber beads, orange-scented water from Seville, and the sheets from his own bed. Reciprocating, Guacanagarí provided the explorer with a few pieces of worked gold, parrots, and a belt (“Diario del Primer Viaje...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 671–695.
Published: 01 October 2016
... subjects in Darién before they were taken away on ships. A few months later Hurtado’s men returned from an entrada to Tumanamá and Pocorosa’s territories to Darién with much booty, including thirty enslaved male and female Indians; they were branded and distributed among Pedrarias, Bishop Quevedo...
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