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Figure 1. Jack D. Forbes. Image from the Manuscript Collections, Department of Special Collections, University of California, Davis.

Jack D. Forbes. Image from the Manuscript Collections, Department of Specia...

in Putting Ethnohistory to Work: Jack Forbes and the Remaking of American Historical Consciousness > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2021
Figure 1. Jack D. Forbes. Image from the Manuscript Collections, Department of Special Collections, University of California, Davis. More
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Introduction: Knowledge of Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerican World

Lisa Sousa, Allison Caplan
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 345–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266361
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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Figure 1. The End of the Trail, by James Earle Fraser. Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno

The End of the Trail , by James Earle Fraser. Donald G. Larson Collection, ...

in Beyond The End of the Trail : Indians at San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2016
Figure 1. The End of the Trail , by James Earle Fraser. Donald G. Larson Collection, Special Collections Research Center, California State University, Fresno More
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“A Liberal and Paternal Spirit”: Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada

Dorothee Schreiber
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 87–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-047
Published: 01 January 2008
...Dorothee Schreiber In the 1890s native fisheries stood in the way of expanding industrial and sport fisheries in Canada. Federal regulations denied a commercial component to native fisheries, restricted harvesting to designated open seasons, and outlawed the technologically specialized and place...
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The Legacy of the Russian-American Company and the Implementation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in the Kodiak Island Area of Alaska

Gordon L. Pullar
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 403–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2140695
Published: 01 July 2013
...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...
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“Communities of Memory” In the Valley of Toluca: The Town of Metepec, 1476–1643

Amos Megged
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 251–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-063
Published: 01 April 2008
... 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...
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Monument, Mobility, and Modernity; Or, the Sachem of Southwark and Other Surprising Commemorations

Coll Thrush
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 607–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2717786
Published: 01 October 2014
...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...
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Tlaloc Rites and the Huey Tozoztli Festival in the Mexican Codex Borbonicus

Catherine R. DiCesare
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135290
Published: 01 October 2015
...Catherine R. DiCesare This study examines the unusual colonial Codex Borbonicus image of a pre-Columbian springtime festival known as Huey Tozoztli. It attends to the special prominence the Borbonicus gives to the rain god Tlaloc, a dedication at odds with more usual venerations to the maize...
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Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest

Paja Faudree
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 597–621.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890260
Published: 01 July 2015
... speaks to issues commonly found in colonial encounters, while inviting deeper engagement with translation as a special site where colonial relations are constructed. Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest Paja Faudree, Brown University Abstract...
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Introduction: How Did They Talk to One Another? Language Use and Communication in Multilingual New Spain

Yanna Yannakakis
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 667–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642698
Published: 01 October 2012
...Yanna Yannakakis This introduction poses the central question of this special issue: how did New Spain's colonial institutions and ethnically diverse colonial subjects use Nahuatl to administer and navigate a multilingual society? In response, I lay out a framework drawn from the articles and my...
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Conclusion: A Language across Space, Time, and Ethnicity

Caterina Pizzigoni
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 785–790.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642752
Published: 01 October 2012
...Caterina Pizzigoni This special issue shows that Nahuatl was not a standard lingua franca spread across Mexico, but was used flexibly and spontaneously by people of many kinds for many different purposes, varying greatly according to the location, the ethnicity, and the social status of speakers...
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The Multiethnic Network of the Lower Orinoco in Early Colonial Times

H. Dieter Heinen, Alvaro García-Castro
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 561–579.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-561
Published: 01 October 2000
...H. Dieter Heinen; Alvaro García-Castro Current Amerindian societies in the Venezuelan lowlands do not reflect the complex interethnic organization that once prevailed on the lower Orinoco. That organization was based on a sophisticated subsistence specialization such as the exchange...
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Change and Persistence in Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in the Quíbor Valley, Northwestern Venezuela (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Lilliam Arvelo
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 669–704.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-669
Published: 01 October 2000
... that has settled, since the fifth century B.C. until the present, in the Quíbor Valley in northwestern Venezuela. I provide an analysis of sociocultural change over a long time period, with special emphasis on the cultural transformations that were set in motion after the colonial encounter...
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Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of Analco

Yanna Yannakakis
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 653–682.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1333697
Published: 01 October 2011
... special collective status and privileges as “Indian conquistadors.” Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 Allies or Servants? The Journey of Indian Conquistadors in the Lienzo of Analco Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University Abstract. This article analyzes ambiguities...
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Going Back to Their Roots: Comanche Trade and Diet Revisited

Peter Mitchell
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 237–271.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3455283
Published: 01 April 2016
...Peter Mitchell Abstract Recent studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Comanches have argued that their dependence on bison posed a serious nutritional challenge in the form of a dangerously imbalanced high-protein diet. They contend that this specialization required Comanches to obtain...
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“The Bathed Ones”: Transformation into Gods among the Precontact Nahua

Julia Madajczak
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10673336
Published: 01 October 2023
..., the other way around. The article concludes that the fabrication of a deity’s ixiptla necessarily involved applying a special kind of liquid, different for every god. Like godly attires, these “waters” contained the god’s traits or essence that enabled the transformation. Works Cited Anders...
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Figure 2. Ellis Hughes’s sketch of a “gallinipper.” Entry for 30 March 1839, Ellis Hughes’s Diary, vol. 2, Lesley Family Papers, Special Collections, University of South Florida Libraries, Tampa, Florida.

Ellis Hughes’s sketch of a “gallinipper.” Entry for 30 March 1839, Ellis Hu...

in “Through Death’s Wilderness”: Malaria, Seminole Environmental Knowledge, and the Florida Wars of Removal > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Ellis Hughes’s sketch of a “gallinipper.” Entry for 30 March 1839, Ellis Hughes’s Diary, vol. 2, Lesley Family Papers, Special Collections, University of South Florida Libraries, Tampa, Florida. More
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Figure 5. Drawing 1930.48 from the Barstow collection. Its inclusion in the Barstow collection indicates that it dates to the 1880s. Image courtesy of the Charles H. Barstow Collection, Special Collections, Montana State University-Billings Library.

Drawing 1930.48 from the Barstow collection. Its inclusion in the Barstow c...

in White Swan: On Possible Further Additions to the Oeuvre of a Crow Warrior-Artist > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2021
Figure 5. Drawing 1930.48 from the Barstow collection. Its inclusion in the Barstow collection indicates that it dates to the 1880s. Image courtesy of the Charles H. Barstow Collection, Special Collections, Montana State University-Billings Library. More
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Figure 6. Map of the Vocational Department, Intermountain Indian School, 1956. Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956. Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Map of the Vocational Department, Intermountain Indian School, 1956. Inter...

in Testing the Limits of Colonial Parenting: Navajo Domestic Workers, the Intermountain Indian School, and the Urban Relocation Program, 1950–1962 > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 6. Map of the Vocational Department, Intermountain Indian School, 1956. Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956. Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. More
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Figure 5a. Vocational Training Programs for Boys at Intermountain Indian School, 1956. Source: Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956. Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Vocational Training Programs for Boys at Intermountain Indian School, 1956....

in Testing the Limits of Colonial Parenting: Navajo Domestic Workers, the Intermountain Indian School, and the Urban Relocation Program, 1950–1962 > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 5a. Vocational Training Programs for Boys at Intermountain Indian School, 1956. Source: Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956 . Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. More