...Stafford Poole Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala . Edited by Restall Matthew , Sousa Lisa , and Terraciano Kevin . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005 . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary...

...Kendall W. Brown New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule . Edited by Cahill David and Tovías Blanca . Brighton : Sussex Academic Press , 2006 . Tables. Notes. Index . vii , 265 . Cloth , $67.50 . Copyright 2008 by Duke...

...Charlotte M. Gradie Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization of Native America . By Cushner Nicholas P. . New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 255 pp. Paper . Copyright 2008 by Duke University...

... advantage of these ambiguities and describe themselves as “pure-blooded,” thereby reframing their local authority in terms recognized and respected by Spanish authorities. Specifically, savvy native lords naturalized the concept by portraying their own ancestors as the originators of “pure” bloodlines...

...Laura E. Matthew Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas . Edited by Mallon Florencia E. . Narrating Native Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 262 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright...

...Sean F. Mcenroe Many edited volumes are the work of junior scholars in emerging fields. Often the archival research is valuable but the quality of writing uneven. Native Claims is a different sort of book. The contributors are leading scholars in their respective fields who are now engaged...

...John Monaghan Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain . Edited by Schroeder Susan . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1998 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiii , 200 pp. Cloth, $45.00 . Paper, $19.95 . 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

...,” granting encomiendas to deserving settlers. This contradicts the idea of the encomienda as a trusteeship over a group of people (p. 9). He assumes, like many other scholars, that precontact natives lived in bounded territories. Another writes about “the division of territory into encomiendas” (p. 62...

...Linda A. Newson Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes . By Denevan William M. . Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxx , 396...

...Francis X. Galán Indeed, this book's audience is not just other historians but the general public, though it would work well among college students. The authors intermittently refer to the history of Native California as one of genocide but also of resistance, perseverance, and survival...

...Seth Garfield Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil . By Heather F. Roller . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii, 335 pp. Paper, $32.00 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke...

...Ralph L. Beals Native Peoples of South America . By Steward Julian H. and Faron Louis C. . New York and London , 1959 . McGraw-Hill . Illustrations. Index . Pp. xi , 481 . $8.50 . Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...William H. Beezley Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution: The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1814-1911 . By Wasserman Mark . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1984 . Map. Tables. Illustrations. Notes. Epilog. Appendix. Bibliography. Index...

...Alcida Rita Ramos Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence . By Guzmán Tracy Devine . First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

...Janet Chernela Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500–1900 . Edited by Langfur Hal . Diálogos . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 285 pp. Paper , $29.95...

...Raquel Padilla Ramos The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico . By Folsom Raphael Brewster . Lamar Series in Western History . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 296 pp...

...Louise M. Burkhart The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Account of the Conquest of New Spain . Edited and translated by Brian Amber , Benton Bradley , and Loaeza Pablo García . Latin American Originals . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2015...

...Francisco Rogido Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850 – 1920 . By Hanley Anne G. . Social Science History . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2005 . Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 286 pp. Cloth...

... Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico . By Brian Amber . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2016 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 196 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ...

... such diverse linguistic and social contexts. In the concluding sentence to her essay about native wills from colonial New England, Kathleen Bragdon comments that “native wills . . . testify to the complexity of Christian Indian communities, but not to their demise” (p. 172). This observation could equally...