...Christine Hunefeldt; Valerie Saiag Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People . By Michael F. Brown ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 336 pp., contents, note to readers, introduction, part one, part two, notes, sources on the Awajún and related...

... Canfield traveled up the Missouri River to reunite with her husband, an officer at a new US Army post in Dakota Territory called Fort Stevenson. In her diary, she recorded the journey upriver and, near the fort, her encounter with “a curious object coming across the river.” It was, she wrote, a “bullboat...

... 1718, in Leite 1943 : 387–97). While Leal was trading for slaves and products, Manços was making connections with the Indians in the same upriver region. In 1725, Manços had managed to bring to Pauxis 162 people of the Babuhi (Uaboy) nation who lived in the lower part of the Trombetas River...

...). The consequences of inappropriate use of weirs or abuse of salmon was regarded as severe; salmon would cease to run, status would be lost, and people from upstream that depended on the salmon could be expected to experience hardship and to retaliate. Retaliations could involve upriver groups damaging...

... among upriver and downriver Waorani groups. Despite the introduction of new diseases, food shortages, and tensions that emerged at the mission, this period witnessed a remarkable decline in violence among Waorani and against kowori outsiders.½ The possibility of forging new alliances...

... Asun- ción up the Paraguay River to the Pantanal (the large wetland in the border region between what are now Bolivia and Brazil) took place in 1542–43; a major expedition followed in 1543–44 and another in 1557–59. All three traveled more than 750 kilometers upriver to the Pantanal before...

... will probably be unconvinced by his overthinking of the term rubber boom . Generally speaking, it refers to a specific period of wild rubber production (roughly 1870–1910 in Brazil; 1885–1930 upriver toward the Andes), not a stereotype of long-term economic failure. Still, for readers who want to make...

...) Although Nishu was a new place, it fit well within the tradition of northward movement and settlement flexibility that characterized the Arikara’s migration trajectory (Murray and Swenson 2016 ). In many ways, moving onto Nishu allotments was in keeping with an ancestral rhythm of upriver migration...

... the measles epidemic they went to live with white people at the mouth of the San Miguel. We collected rubber for Mario Magno, an Ecua- dorian who sold our debts to Arsenio Figueroa, who took us upriver to find rubber around Sencella. We collected rubber with another 50 Indians...

... upriver until Cabutá (Cabruta), not far from the mouth of the Apure River and some four hundred kilometers further (Simón : chap. see also Aguado All of this happened in the first third of the sixteenth century, when the area was probably not greatly disturbed by European explorers (Whitehead...

... struck their missionaries as bordering on the excessive. For example, mis- sionary James McCullagh found that his congregation at the upriver mis- sion of Aiyansh would “roar like a moose” and shed tears copiously while praying during the service. Collective prayers were of equally “wild con...

... into the Assiniboine Nation, this Scot happened to travel aboard the same steamship as the German-speaking travelers as he returned to his fortified trading post on the Yellowstone River. There, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, they would spend the winter together. During the long journey upriver, McKenzie briefed...

... that left after Aroure’s warning, they traveled upriver until the mouth of the Mesay, “where they resettled and built seven malocas .” In 1928, a Murui-Muina group of thirty-eight still lived near the Yarí. After visiting the area, the Capuchins realized that the Indigenous population there had no contact...

... on the diplomacy of “Madame Coalpo” after a conflict near The Dalles in 1814. She was a powerful figure in the trade: married to Clatsop headman Coalpo and related to leading families upriver to the Cascades Rapids, she had influence that stretched the length of the lower river. A decade later, in 1824...

... on the Northwest Coast (figs. 1, 2). It suggests that distance was a factor in taking slaves in the lower Columbia region: the ‘‘great Water fall’’ could have been no closer than the Cascades of the Columbia, some 140 miles upriver, and might have been the Dalles, 230-odd miles upriver.1 Farther north...

... terrain before continuing upriver. The group passed mound-like berms, riverside clearings, and other markers that signaled long-term presence and habitation (Zeisberger 1885 : 104–6). Zeisberger noted that the group’s pilot was unfamiliar with the area and that few Euro-American settlers had firsthand...

... down and the bell thrown in the bushes.4 They then requested passage upriver to Tipu but were told that they were not welcome there. After spending several days waiting and hoping that the Tipuans would change their minds, they requested passage to Hubelna, located a few leagues up the Yaxteel...

... shot and killed dur- ing the attempt. The other two fled upriver using a stolen canoe, rowing upriver by night and hiding during the day out of fear of meeting with any enemies. This event was told as a snippet or fragment separated from other such short narratives, and there was no certain way...

... salmon on the same parts of the river at the same time of year. When J. D. McLean released his circular in 1897, Indians in New Brunswick were no longer able to access most upriver fishing sites, and under the fisheries regulations could no longer use their traditional spear, or “negog,” to catch...

... Diomedi was stationed at Colville in the 1880s to serve the Indians located near the St. Francis Regis Mission. To the west of the mission, Okanagan adherents along the Okanagan River welcomed Diomedi’s visits to provide mass, and that encouraged him to continue on upriver to preach among their relatives...