Ethnohistory current issue

Climatic Signatures in Yucatecan Wills and Death Records

Bricker, V. R., Hill, R. E. — 2009-04-06

Dense collections of eighteenth-century wills and death registers from Tekanto and Ixil, two towns in northern Yucatan, represent hitherto unexplored sources for documenting the relationship between natural disasters and mortality patterns among the Yucatecan Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian population of the peninsula, which supplement the brief, impressionistic accounts of historians.

"They Had a Chance to Talk to One Another...": The Role of Incidence in Native American Code Talking

Meadows, W. C. — 2009-04-06

While formally recruited groups of Native American code talkers used in World War II, such as the Navajo, Comanche, and later the Meskwaki and Hopi, are well known, this article focuses on the incidental use of Native Americans in U.S. Armed Forces communications in both world wars. This essay documents several instances in which the presence of Native American soldiers within the same or nearby units who spoke a common native language was discovered by accident, either by their commanding officers or by the members themselves, and their subsequent use in sending military communications in their respective tribal languages. These data add to the breadth of our knowledge of Native American code talking and the essay explores the context for the development of such opportunities, which, although they involved fewer men and perhaps less frequency of use, involved more tribes than formally developed code-talking programs.

The Genesis of African and Indian Cooperation in Colonial North America: An Interview with Helen Hornbeck Tanner

Miller, I. — 2009-04-06

Dr. Helen Hornbeck Tanner, a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library, studied American Indian and colonial American history for over six decades. In this interview she discusses little-known themes including African and Indian coexistence and cooperation, beginning in 1619 in the Chesapeake Bay region, and spanning Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Northern Mexico, Ohio, Spanish Florida, and Texas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including an Underground Railroad from Michigan into Canada. Also discussed are a system of inter-Indian diplomacy that stretched across the United States east of the Rocky Mountains and the long history of attempts by the U.S. government to assimilate American Indians.

The Quinto Suyo: New African Diaspora History from Peru

Garofalo, L. J. — 2009-04-06

Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehman; Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief

Smith, V. — 2009-04-06

The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Politics of Postcolonial U.S.-Indigenous Relations

Shepherd, J. P. — 2009-04-06

Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood

Gills, B. J. — 2009-04-06

Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism

Nesper, L. — 2009-04-06

Buffalo Inc.: American Indians and Economic Development

Rosenthal, N. G. — 2009-04-06

Our Life among the Iroquois Indians

Carter, W. — 2009-04-06

Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1815

Warren, S. — 2009-04-06

Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians

Silverman, D. J. — 2009-04-06

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Barry, M. — 2009-04-06

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century

Tate, M. L. — 2009-04-06

Salvation through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier

Rivaya-Martinez, J. — 2009-04-06

Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State

Ellis, C. — 2009-04-06

Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

Singleton, T. A. — 2009-04-06

The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians

Stremlau, R. — 2009-04-06

Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation

Denson, A. — 2009-04-06

Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier

Saunt, C. — 2009-04-06

Pre-removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths

Cheek, G. C. — 2009-04-06

Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821

Suarez, A. C. — 2009-04-06

The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics

Evans, S. T. — 2009-04-06

Politics, Economy, and Society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821

Offutt, L. S. — 2009-04-06

Feeding Chilapa: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region

McDonald, J. H. — 2009-04-06

Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925

Kellogg, S. — 2009-04-06

The Quito Manuscript: An Inca History Preserved by Fernando Montesinos

Whigham, T. — 2009-04-06

Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

Mann, K. D. — 2009-04-06

People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru

Langer, E. D. — 2009-04-06