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... 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, possessed...

...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...

... to chip away at the edifice of ‘‘objective’’ Western history. As Nabokov states, ‘‘The trick lies in simulta- neously tracking down hard facts and their cultural and historical contexts and nuances, without which they don’t mean much’’ (234). Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher...

...Robert Wasserstrom The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America . By Andrés Reséndez . ( New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . xiii + 431 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $15.99 paper.) A Cold Welcome...

.... The main elements of this mythical history persist in academic interpretations and popular media, even as Restall and other scholars have debunked this received wisdom. Copyright 2019 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2019 When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed...

...David Igler Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Untold Story from the Journals of James Burney and Henry Roberts . Edited by James K. Barnett . ( Pullman : Washington State University Press , 2017 . xvii+323 pp., preface, foreword, introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index...

... of winners and losers. Such narratives obscure the high level of tightly interwoven and intercultural alliances forged between Natives and colonizers. Instead, the story gets reduced to a confrontation between a supposedly antiquated group of Indians and modern European settlers. Or, as the historian Jill...

... 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...

..., 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...

... will be rewarded with a textured evocation of colonial legal culture. But they should expect to learn much more about the French men of Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis than about the Indian women whose lives Book Reviews 685 lay at the center of this story...

.... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... narratives. I also speak with tribal elders when possible; I seek out papers, ephemera, stories, and so on, that are not in standard archives. I know that delay is risky; these sources, particularly from tribal elders, are not with us forever. On rare occasion, some, like Michael B. Williams, may leave us...

... 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...

...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...