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“We Then Went to England”: Shawnee Storytelling and the Atlantic World
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 595–619.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and historicity that cannot be easily integrated into the standard frameworks of Atlantic history. Instead of an ocean that united four continents into a single “Atlantic world,” the Shawnee storytellers imagined a kčikami , a dangerous borderland separating radically different cultural, spiritual, and racial...
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Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 327–328.
Published: 01 April 2020
...María Nieves Zedeño Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet . By Rosalyn R. LaPier . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . xliii +195 pp., acknowledgments, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 hardcover...
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The Transcoding of the Codex Xolotl in Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., it is important to acknowledge him as a diligent researcher who was also an exceptional writer and storyteller. Copyright 2019 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2019 Codex Xolotl Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl Historia de la nación chichimeca transcoding In the first half of the seventeenth...
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Oral Tradition of Origin as a Remembered Memory and a Repeated Event:sorghum as a Gift in Jie and Turkana Historical Consciousness
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 223–256.
Published: 01 April 2004
... Storyteller. Ph.D. diss. ,University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mirzeler, Mustafa, and Crawford Young 2000 Pastoral Politics in the Northeast Periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as a Change Agent. Journal of Modern African Studies 38 : 407 -29. Nagashima, Nobuhiro 1969 Historical Relations among the Central...
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The Wisconsin Oneida and the WPA: Stories of Corn, Colonialism, and Revitalization
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 407–427.
Published: 01 July 2021
... number focusing on traditional foods. The stories that emphasized corn revealed a divide between the past and present, with significant changes happening within the lifetimes of the storytellers. Agriculture and traditional cookery were rapidly declining at a noticeable pace, and many expressed deep...
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Narrative Technology and Eskimo History
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 791–796.
Published: 01 October 2000
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Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia
The Inupiaq Eskimo Nations of Northwest Alaska. By Ernest S. Burch Jr.
(Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, xviii + pp., preface,
introduction, figures, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index.
cloth, paper.)
The Eskimo Storyteller...
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With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 407–408.
Published: 01 April 2019
...: there is no other life than this, la vida matizada , life paid attention to. In With the Saraguros , ethnography meets storytelling, bringing to life poetic stories that complement scientific analysis. The book’s central concern is la vida matizada , a metaphor of all the author has learned in Saraguro...
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Chehalis Stories
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 605–606.
Published: 01 July 2019
... storytelling protocol. Storytelling would start after supper and would continue until midnight. The person telling the story would lie down, and everyone would listen, lying flat” (25). Goertz describes competing ideas about ownership of stories, observing that some believe stories belong to families...
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Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 692–693.
Published: 01 October 2018
... in historical context to highlight the mechanisms employed by Nahuas to preserve their history and identity under colonialism. Townsend’s effort highlights the appeal and persuasiveness of good storytelling and narrative, but as is characteristic of her other work, undergirding the highly accessible volume...
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That Government Man Tried to Poison All the Klallam Indians: Metanarratives of History and Colonialism on the Central Northwest Coast
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 April 2006
..., present, and future,
humans reckon their existence through storytelling. To hear stories, and
to interpret them in the context of one’s lived experiences, is a universal
human praxis. We are all historians with the power to adapt stories about
the past to new and contradictory circumstances...
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Law on the Land: Contesting Ethical Authority in the Western Arctic
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 469–483.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., an Athapaskan people of the northern Yukon—many of
whom recall the chase from their youth or inherited stories about the events
of January-February 1932 from relatives. Gwitchin storytellers distinguish
their versions of the Johnson manhunt from journalists’ and other published
accounts, emphasizing...
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Linking Native American Health, Religion, and Culture
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 143–148.
Published: 01 January 2011
... that deals with themes of historical trauma, individual and
collective cultural rediscovery, the deep imbrication of individuals in com-
munities, and the importance of language and storytelling in the healing
process. In her contribution to this volume, Schwartz brings Navajo per-
spectives...
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Confusion, Native Skepticism, and Recurring Questions about the Year 2000: “Soft” Beliefs and Preparations for the Millennium in the Arapesh Region, Papua New Guinea
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 133–169.
Published: 01 January 2000
... that nonetheless it is so important.
5996 Ethnohistory / 47:1 / sheet 151 of 281 One of the problems with millennial stories has to do with indigenous
notions of truth, evidence, and authority in storytelling. In the cultures of
this area, the stories...
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Space, Time, and Story Tracks: Contemporary Practices of Topographic Memory in the Palikur Territory of Arukwa, Amapá, Brazil
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 163–185.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of other storytellings. First, however, some background is required.
Arukwa is the Palikur name for the landscape considered home to most Pali-
kur speakers, who reside along the Arukwa River in the Área Indígena do
Uaçá in northern Brazil and in semiurban settlements in adjoining French
Guiana...
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“That’s What They Used to Say”: Reflections on Native American Oral Traditions
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 607–608.
Published: 01 July 2019
... academy, the Indian voice is often lost” in the telling of Native history. Fixico also makes a strong point when he notes that stories do not die once they are written down because their “life forces are too great.” Stories “possess a spiritual energy” that storytellers can bring forth and use to bond...
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The Point of View of a Stone: Looking at the Colonization of the Northern Plains from the Standing Rock
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of its origins. Having relocated with Mandans and Hidatsas in the Fort Berthold area in the 1870s, the Arikara maintained their relationship with the stone through storytelling. Their legends were replete with petrification stories (Beckwith 1937 : 307n144; Bowers 1963: 396n24). Although...
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The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 323–324.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of effective storytelling and scholarly expertise. ...
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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 535–536.
Published: 01 October 2017
... recognizes the significance of this era but limits his discussion to a few pages in the conclusion. A fuller consideration of these years would provide a more satisfying close to a book that exemplifies attention to detail, rich analysis, and gripping storytelling. ...
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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 752–753.
Published: 01 October 2016
... license afforded the arts. Puri’s almost spiritual engagement with these mementos allows her to see the present in the past and brings unprecedented immediacy and authenticity to her storytelling. Puri approaches Grenada with a keen ear, finding a path through often wildly conflicting renderings...
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Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico: Puebla de los Ángeles, 1531–1706
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 616–617.
Published: 01 July 2019
... remarkable archival mining; on-point analysis; and readable, compassionate and storytelling prose, Sierra Silva has set a new standard for scholarship on this topic. Building on the work of Ben Vinson, Michelle McKinley, and others, Sierra Silva recounts three fascinating case studies representing how...
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