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Women in Bullboats: Indigenous Women Navigate the Upper Missouri River
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 449–470.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Christopher Steinke Abstract By venturing out into the channel of the Missouri River, which they navigated for much of the nineteenth century, Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa women evaded American surveillance as well as indigenous enemies. They transported crucial supplies back to their villages...
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Women in Ancient America; The Women of Colonial Latin America
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 735–738.
Published: 01 October 2001
... of Beynon’s oeuvre into print.
Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United
States. Edited by Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. Sullivan, and Rochelle A.
Marrinan. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida...
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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690–1792
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 387–388.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in a comparative setting. Despite the bumbling that beset Scott’s army of Kentuckians—as Sleeper-Smith notes, Ohio country Indians deliberately chose smaller horses that, unlike those of the invaders, would not sink into the region’s marshy ground—the soldiers did manage to kidnap scores of Native women...
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The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 395–396.
Published: 01 April 2019
... mastery of materials in three indigenous languages, her dogged efforts to ferret out women’s voices in male-authored sources, and her fine storytelling abilities make this essential reading for scholars of colonial New Spain. As scholars have long noted, Spaniards left critical Mesoamerican structures...
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Published: 01 January 2019
Figure 1. Percentages of women authors in Ethnohistory , 1954–2013.
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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875–1970.
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 353–355.
Published: 01 April 2008
..., among many other things, that indigenous women
could and did attempt to use the colonial legal system to their own advan-
tage. Women such as María Salomé must have had some inkling of how
this system worked and could moreover rely on the more expert services of
local indigenous notaries...
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“Hard Working, Orderly Little Women”: Mayan Vendors and Marketplace Struggles in Early-Twentieth-Century Guatemala
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 579–607.
Published: 01 October 2008
... these dictators sought to impose their modernization programs of progress and order, criminal records abound with Mayan women disobeying market regulations and more generally disrupting the peace. Beyond putting the women's livelihoods at stake, these conflicts were also struggles over ethnic, gender, and state...
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Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 683–685.
Published: 01 October 2008
... her original intentions in writing this volume.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-023
Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J.
Ekberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi + 236 pp., preface,
acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, index...
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Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 January 2009
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book, but one that might have fruitfully pushed its evidence much farther.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-043
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Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide
to Research and Writing. Edited by Rebecca Kugel...
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Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 529–530.
Published: 01 July 2009
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the past and in the present continue to craft their own future.
The fifth essay, Brenda Child’s “Wilma’s Jingle Dress: Ojibwe Women
and Healing in the Early Twentieth Century,” makes, as Hurtado observes,
a closed circle in coming back to honor Wilma Mankiller. Child takes the
occasion...
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Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 756–758.
Published: 01 October 2009
...” (104). Following Matthew’s
revelations, the role that native women played in shaping the course and
outcome of conquest is addressed by Robinson A. Herrera, especially the
situations of female nobility engaged in “intimate unions” as “concubines
and wives” (127) in sixteenth-century Guatemala...
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“Fertile with Fine Talk”: Ungoverned Tongues among Haudenosaunee Women and Their Neighbors
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2010
... discusses the unusual voice Haudenosaunee women had in governance. It then observes significant freedom of speech and action among their French and Dutch colonial neighbors. The article investigates the blending of those voices as colonial women colluded with the Haudenosaunee to seal bargains...
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Courting Catholicism: Nahua Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Mexico City
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 415–444.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jonathan Truitt Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church. By examining Nahua women's role in colonial Christianity—their religiosity (as admired by European and indigenous chroniclers), responsibilities...
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Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 July 2010
... to reconfigure the field in which we all find
ourselves working.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-007
Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture.
Edited by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Gui-
mond. (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2009. xviii...
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A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters among the Delaware Indians
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Katy Simpson Smith A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters among the Delaware Indians . By Fur Gunlög . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2009 . viii + 251 pp., preface, introduction, list of abbreviations, notes, index, acknowledgments . $39.95 cloth...
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Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Warren Milteer, Jr. Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico . By Mock Shirley Boteler . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . xiv + 383 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright...
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Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 January 2005
... and Douglas W. Veltre), the ‘‘invention and perpetua-
tion of culture’’ as evidenced by contemporary women totem pole carvers
(Aldona Jonaitis), a memoriam for a post-Jesup scholar (Marjorie M. Bal-
zar), cultural revitalization in Siberia (Vladimir Kh. Ivanov-Unarov and
Zinaida I. Ivanov-Unarov). A final...
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Women in Ancient America, 2nd ed.
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 435–436.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Melissa Vogel Women in Ancient America, 2nd ed. By Bruhns Karen Olsen and Stothert Karen E. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . xvii + 293 pp., preface, glossary, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016...
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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 351–380.
Published: 01 April 2016
... between an Andean woman and a Spanish man, this article suggests how legal archives can reveal indigenous women’s contributions to the history of colonial silver. It also provides an appendix with one hundred cases of indigenous, creole, and Spanish women miners, refiners, and managers in Alto Perú, 1559...
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Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Dawn G. Marsh Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South . By Usner Daniel H. . ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . ix+110 pp., preface, illustrations, index . $24.95 paper). Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017...
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