...James G. Cusick Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812. Edited by Braund Kathryn E. Holland . ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2012 . xviii + 312 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $34.95 paper...

... in central Mexico and Michoacán” were deployed to fight “two wars of conquest” a little more than a decade apart. Conscripts for the first campaign, voluntary as well as forced, were subjected to the “heavy-handed tactics” of Nuño de Guzmán, whose rapacious exploitation of Nueva Galicia triggered...

...Dean R. Snow By Carl Benn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xiv + 272 pp.,introduction, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.) 2000 Book Reviews 6061 Ethnohistory / 47:2 / sheet 215 of 234 The Iroquois in the War...

... sorts of minor documents for evidence of indigenous voices lurking within the imaginings of the most unlikely and seemingly insignificant colonists. War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead. (Santa Fe, Schoolof American...

... a large part of the Maritimes as war compensation. The author contends that in order to understand fully the meaning of the treaty, the historian and the lawyer (the perspectives that Wicken attempts to blend) must consider both its written text and the oral discussions that surrounded its ratification...

...Ian Steele The Ohio Shawnee reversed the trend of their diplomacy in going to war with the British colonies in 1754. This move has been misunderstood as general resentment against settler encroachment and/or an opportunistic acceptance of French incentives. The clear trigger was the imprisonment...

... the U.S. Civil War to just afterward. He places particular emphasis on the role of the Baptist Church and its missionaries among the Cherokee and the Indians of the Southeast. Minges conspicu- ously opens and concludes his book with an appeal filed before the Judicial Appeals Tribunal of the Cherokee...

...Patricia Barker Lerch A Colonial Complex: South Carolina's Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War, 1680-1730. By Steven J. Oatis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. ix + 399 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) American Society...

...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...

.... 10.1215/00141801-2007-069 Gall: Lakota War Chief. By Robert W. Larson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi + 301 pp., preface, illustrations, maps, bibliog- raphy, index. $24.95 cloth.) Roger L. Nichols, University of Arizona This thorough study examines the life...

.... 10.1215/00141801-2007-069 Gall: Lakota War Chief. By Robert W. Larson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xvi + 301 pp., preface, illustrations, maps, bibliog- raphy, index. $24.95 cloth.) Roger L. Nichols, University of Arizona This thorough study examines the life...

.... This is especially so in the case of the 1655 Peach War. In a footnote (158n27) Otto dismisses Cynthia Van Zandt’s interpretation of the attack on New Amsterdam as a Swedish ploy, which does not agree with the course of events. The hostilities were sparked off by a cultural misunderstanding over...

...William A. Starna; José António Brandão American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 From the Mohawk-Mahican War to the Beaver Wars: Questioning the Pattern William A. Starna, State University of New York, College at Oneonta José António Brandão, Western Michigan University...

...) in 170 Book Reviews order to secure their nations’ military services during the imperial wars of the eighteenth century—and during the American Revolutionary War. Vaughan has written a praiseworthy book, judicious, richly detailed, and deeply...

...Zachary R. Jones The Kake War of 1869 was a US Army altercation with the Tlingit Indians of southeast Alaska. In this conflict, the Army's gunship attacked three K ée x ' K wáan Tlingit civilian villages in midwinter, although no active Tlingit resistance was mounted. The Army's intention...

...) services as co-opted militia on the Colotlán frontier. Altman notes that “large armies of so-called indios amigos recruited in central Mexico and Michoacán” were deployed to fight “two wars of conquest” a little more than a decade apart. Conscripts for the first campaign, voluntary...

...Caroline Funk Yupiit living along the Bering Sea coast south of the mouth of the Yukon River regularly engaged in violent conflict with more northern riverine Yupiit prior to the 1840s AD arrival of Russian explorers and traders. The conflict is known as the Bow and Arrow War Days, and outside...

.... Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 One Hundred Sixty- One Knots, Two Plates, and One Emperor: Creek Information Networks in the Era of the Yamasee War Alejandra Dubcovsky, Yale University Abstract. Indian information networks crisscrossed the colonial Southeast. Oper...

...Wolfgang Gabbert Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatán, 1800–1880 . By Rugeley Terry . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . 488 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index . $65.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011...

...Peter B. Villella The War for Mexico's West: Indians and Spaniards in New Galicia, 1524–1550 . By Altman Ida . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2010 . xx + 340 pp., illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, bibliography, index . $28.95 paper.) Copyright...