...James H. McDonald Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World. By Rabasa José . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . xii + 264 pp., acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth.) Copyright 2013...

... historical contexts and nuances, without which they don’t mean much’’ (234). Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher. By Esther Bur- nett Horne and Sally McBeth. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. xlii + 215 pp., preface, introduction, appendices, notes, bibliogra- phy...

... works on promi- nent Tlingit personages, especially Nora and Richard Dauenhauer’s oral history volume, Haa Kusteeyi, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories (1994). The book also makes an important contribution to linguistic anthro- pology, particularly to the ethnohistory of communication, in its fine...

... of transculturalization hovers over many of the essays in the collection. Most of the essayists place individuals at the center of their stories, and these individuals, whether nonnatives who became entangled with Indian Country or natives whose lives took them across cultural fron- tiers...

... autobiographical, ecological, astronomical, genealogical, and historical. Drawing on the notion of “topokinetic memory” described by neuroscientist Alain Berthoz (2000) and on ethnographic material collected during a journey on the Rio Urucauá, this analysis distinguishes between story maps as the practice of...

... men of Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis than about the Indian women whose lives Book Reviews 685 lay at the center of this story, and whose enslavement framed their lives in the violence that brought “Indian Woman X” to her premature end. DOI...

.... xxi + 242 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Betzinez, Jason, with Wilbur Sturtevant Nye 1959 I Fought with Geronimo . Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole. Book Reviews Chevato: The Story of the...

...Terry Rugeley A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence . By Batrell Ricardo ; edited and translated by Sanders Mark A. . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . lxix + 225 pp., introduction, appendix, acknowledgments...

...Laura Woodworth-Ney The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story . By West Elliott . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xxiv + 397 pp., illustrations and maps, editor's note, preface, timeline, epilogue, acknowledgments, note on sources, notes, index . $27.95 cloth...

...Angela Pulley Hudson The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story . By Miles Tiya . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . 336 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $32.50 cloth.) Copyright...

...Brenden W. Rensink Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice . By Farr William E. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2012 . xix + 288 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, references, index . $29.95 cloth...

...Victoria Smith Rim Country Exodus: A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making . By Herman Daniel J. . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2012 . xi + 393 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by...

... historical experience. Carson employs the unusual device of framing his history between the two halves of a short story about Choctaws by the nineteenth-century southern writer William Gilmore Simms. This story, ‘‘Oakatibbe as...

...Robert Wasserstrom S. White does an admirable job of explaining the climate science that underpins this story. He also avoids oversimplification. European settlement might have fared better, he suggests, if high-ranking officials had abandoned their conviction that latitude was destiny. Surely...

...Susan Kellogg When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History . By Matthew Restall . ( New York : Ecco , 2018 . 526 pp., preface, timeline, illustrations, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth). Copyright 2019 by American...

...Emily Story I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870. Edited by Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L. Whigham. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 257 pp., preface, introduction, contributors, index, 3 maps, 18 illustrations...

.... xiii + 403 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, tables,glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth. $24.95 paper.) 2003 211 Book Reviews 751 Histories and Stories from Chiapas: Border...

...Kimberly Gauderman American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 It Happened on the Way to the Temascal and Other Stories: Desiring the Illicit in Colonial Spanish America Kimberly Gauderman, University of New Mexico Spaniards had a lot on their minds in early Latin America...

...Ana Yolanda Contreras Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala. By Daniel Wilkinson. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. x + 375 pp., contents, author's notes, list of names, note on sources, selected bibliography, acknowledgments, index. $19.95...

... O'odham sacred stories. Socioethical expectations modeled in the petitions challenge the Indian Office's efforts at assimilation and its conception of modernity based in Western hegemony, revealing a counterhegemonic definition based in mutually beneficial responsibilities and in what later advocates call...