Ethnohistoric Research (Investigation Type)

This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories. Ethnohistoric studies typically deal with time periods of initial or early contact between different cultural systems, for example, European explorers or early colonists and indigenous cultures.

526-550 (822 Records)

Mescalero Apaches (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only C. L. Sonnichsen.

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Metal Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photograph of a metal artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.


Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. William R. Wepler.

In 1983, Ball State University submitted a draft proposal to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for a Department of the Interior Survey and Planning Grant. The proposal requested funds to formulate an ethnohistoric study unit for the Miami Indian occupation of the Upper Wabash drainage in central Indiana. The proposed project was to be carried out by William R. Wepler in four stages: study unit construction, background research,...


Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage: A Preliminary Study Unit, Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William R. Wepler.

This report is focused on the occupation and utilization of the Upper Wabash drainage by the Miami during the period beginning with the contact of the Europeans (ca. 1650) and ending with the participation of the last tribally owned lands within the state of Indiana in 1873; the primary focus of the project is on the era between 1795 and 1881. This project is a direct outgrowth of several ethnohistorical and archaeological studies conducted within the Upper Wabash drainage in recent years....


Micronesia Navigation, Island Empires and Traditional Concepts of Ownership of the Sea (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Masao Nakayama. Fredrick L. Ramp.

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Micronesian Resources Study: Kosroe Ethnography; Kosrae Ethnography Project, Federated States of Micronesia (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Allan R. Burns.

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Micronesian Resources Study: Marshall Islands Ethnogrpahy; Ethnography and Ethnohistory of Taroa Island, Republic of the Marshall Islands (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lin Poyer.

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Micronesian Resources Study: Palau Ethnography; Rechoudel: Traditional Cultures and Lifeways Long Ago in Palau (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Palau Society of Historians.

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Micronesian Resources Study: Yap Archaeology; Archaeological Survey of Gachlaw Village, Gilman Municipality, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Hampton Adams.

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Migrations in the North: Hopi Reconnaissance for the Rocky Mountain Expansion Loop Pipeline (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Anyon.

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Militarization and Extraction in the Afro-Indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Fernando Montero.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research examines new configurations of sovereign power in Central America in the context of two momentous transformations currently taking place on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua. The first of these is the escalating militarization of the coast by the neo-Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, allegedly in response to high volumes of cocaine trafficking. The second is the...


The Military in Alaska Draft Chronology, Being Compiled by John H. Cloe Office of History, 3rd Wing (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Cloe.

A chronological summary report of the military in Alaska from the mid 1800s to the early 2000s. Created by the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron Historian, John H. Cloe.


Mimbres Games, Gambling and Gods (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Swanson.

This paper reviews the archaeological evidence for the presence of games played by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mimbres region in the US Southwest/Northwest Mexico, emphasizing perishable materials recovered from cave/rock shelter deposits and iconic imagery present on Mimbres ceramic vessels. He compares the archaeological evidence with ethnographic information for gaming and gaming-related activities among Western Puebloan groups. Gaming and gambling among the ethnohistoric Hopi, Zuni...


Mimbres Inequality
PROJECT Uploaded by: Will Russell

Appendices to Will G. Russell's dissertation


Missions To the Calusa (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John H. Hann.

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The Mississippi De Soto Trail Mapping Project (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Morgan.

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Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas R. Spitzer.

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Mississippian Period (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Brown.

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Mississippian Political Economy (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Muller.

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Mixteca Alta GIS
PROJECT Uploaded by: Veronica Perez Rodriguez

GIS data from Mixteca Alta projects


The Modernization of the Salt River Project: The Impact of the Rehabilitation and Betterment Program (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jay C. Ziemann.

Following the cycle of economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s, and the manpower shortage caused by the outbreak of the Second World War, the various reclamation projects in the western United States suffered from broken-down systems. The Salt River Project, which serves the Phoenix metropolitan area with water and power, was one of these reclamation projects. Canals and laterals that carried invaluable irrigation water seeped and leaked, resulting in water losses of twenty-five percent; many...


Mokelumne River Project, Cultural Resources Report, Native American Cultural Resources. (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wirth Associates, Inc..

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The Montagnais "hunting territory" and the fur trade (1954)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Burke Leacock.

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Mythology of the Americas (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cottie Burland. Irene Nicholson. Harold Osborne.

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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians (1929)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

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