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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Parallel Histories: Conquest, Sovereignty, and Property in Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Sources by Donghoon Lee Julio César, Luiseño Musician: California Indian Oral Tradition, Franciscan Music Instruction, and California Missions, 1769–1846 by Bernard Gordillo Brockmann

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Volume 72 Issue 4 | Ethnohistory | Duke University Press

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📣 The New Ethnohistory Issue Has Dropped!📣 Volume 72, Number 4 In this new issue we showcase: “Bad Interpreters and Scheming Tongues”: Nahuatl and Chiapanec in a Lawsuit over Cacicazgos and Tribute in Chiapan, 1547 by Martha Atzin Bahena Pérez Read now on read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

show that despite how they vilified Nahuas and their hands over the following decades, Nahuas kept linking their hands to life force, to the kindling of skills, and to their cultural predecessors. Nahua views of the hands proved more resilient than the newcomers ever imagined."

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A: "I put together this study because I wanted to know how Nahuas thought about their hands, especially after the Spaniards targeted Mexica hands and arms during the Feast of Toxcatl. The Spaniards' own records, it turns out,

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

⭐️Article Spotlight ⭐️ Featured in the July 2025 Issue of Ethnohistory Nahua Hands, the Feast of Toxcatl, and the Transmission of Legacy by Servando Z. Hinojosa Author Q&A Q: Why did you write this article?

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

While the ethnography is condensed, even skeletal in my article-I hope there's enough to give readers a basic understanding of Amazonian indigenous ways and their significance for interpreting the past.”

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The ethnographic scholarship makes it clear why that mattered-by taking the women, colonial agents not only split up the principais families and undercut their prestige, but they destroyed interethnic alliances and tore apart the social fabric of the entire region.

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A: “While indigenous voices are relatively rare in colonial documents, when they are there, we should listen. Time and again Amazonian leaders had explained why they rebelled: priests and other Portuguese authorities had separated them from their women.

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

⭐️Article Spotlight ⭐️ Featured in the July 2025 Issue of Ethnohistory “To Be at Peace”: Indigenous Women, Interethnic Marriages, and Cunhamenas in Northwestern Amazonia, 1730–1755 by Barbara A. Sommer Author Q&A Q: Why did you write this article?

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I believe that it is vitally important for historians to understand the roles that Indigenous legal practices have played in the past."

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Author Q&A Q: Why did you write this article? A: "I wrote this article to highlight some of the ways in which Powhatan law has contributed to the history of Indigenous-European conflict over territorial possessions.

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

⭐️Article Spotlight ⭐️ Featured in the July 2025 Issue of Ethnohistory “To Rule by Customes”: Powhatan Assertions of Territorial Possessions against the Virginia Company, 1607–1624 by Joe Borsato

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Instead, communities maintained their sovereignty, through deer hunting, despite colonial settlement and encroachment. Just because the Europeans claimed ownership of the land in their legal system does not mean that Indigenous people had actually lost that land.

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Author Q&A Q: Why did you write your article? A: "Gone a Hunting" is important because it complicates narratives of colonial expansion and Indigenous dispossession. From a 17th-century Algonquian perspective, English settlement and encroachment was not nearly as successful as many have believed.

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

⭐️Article Spotlight ⭐️ Featured in the July 2025 Issue of Ethnohistory “Gone a Hunting”: Deer Hunting and Indigenous Sovereignty in New England, 1600-1750 by Nathan Braccio

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Check out: “Gone a Hunting”: Deer Hunting and Indigenous Sovereignty in New England, 1600–1750 url: read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...

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“Gone a Hunting”: Deer Hunting and Indigenous Sovereignty in New England, 1600–1750 | Ethnohistory | Duke University Press

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Nahua Hands, the Feast of Toxcatl, and the Transmission of Legacy by Servando Hinojosa 2022 Presidential Address: Rock, Paper, Scissors—Ethnohistory and an Indigenous Archive by Barbara Mundy Read now on read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory...

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Volume 72 Issue 3 | Ethnohistory | Duke University Press

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“To Rule by Customes”: Powhatan Assertions of Territorial Possessions against the Virginia Company, 1607–1624 by Joe Borsato “To Be at Peace”: Indigenous Women, Interethnic Marriages, and Cunhamenas in Northwestern Amazonia, 1730–1755 by Barbara Sommer

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Ethnohistory Journal @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📣New Ethnohistory Issue 📣 July 2025 Volume 72, Number 3 In this new issue we showcase: “Gone a Hunting”: Deer Hunting and Indigenous Sovereignty in New England, 1600–1750 by Nathan Braccio

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