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Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century.
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Nuclear Nuevo México
In the 1940s military and scientific personnel chose the Pajarito
Plateau to site Project Y of the secret Manhattan Project, where
scientists developed the atomic bomb. Nuevomexicanas/os and Tewa
people were forcibly dispossessed from their ranches and sacred
land in north-central New Mexico with inequitable or no
compensation. Contrary to previous works that suppress
Nuevomexicana/o presence throughout U.S. nuclear history,
Nuclear Nuevo México focuses on recovering the voices and
stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of this
history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gómez tells a
new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not
separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo México but
instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid
the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico. Gómez
examines the experiences of Nuevomexicanas/os who have been
impacted by the nuclear industrial complex, both the weapons
industry and the commercial industry. Gómez argues that Los Alamos
was created as a racist project that targeted poor and
working-class Nuevomexicana/o farming families, along with their
Pueblo neighbors, to create a nuclear empire. The resulting
imperialism has left a legacy of disease and distress throughout
New Mexico that continues today.
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Captives and Cousins
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and
legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among
native American and Euramerican communities throughout the
Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of
the nineteenth century.
Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and
kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a \"slave system\"
in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for
their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of
violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches,
Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor
resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that
integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these
practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare.
Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the \"slave trade\" on
Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's
centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and \"communities of
interest\" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and
American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and
military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a
regional \"war against slavery\" brought differing forms of social
stability but cost local communities much of their economic
vitality and cultural flexibility.
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Nación Ǵenízara : ethnogenesis, place, and identity in New Mexico
Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. The contributors to this volume cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics. Fray Angélico Chávez defined Genízaro as the ethnic term given to indigenous people of mixed tribal origins living among the Hispano population in Spanish fashion. They entered colonial society as captives taken during wars with Utes, Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, and Pawnees. Genízaros comprised a third of the population by 1800. Many assimilated into Hispano and Pueblo society, but others in the land-grant communities maintained their identity through ritual, self-government, and kinship.
Today the persistence of Genízaro identity blurs the lines of distinction between Native and Hispanic frameworks of race and cultural affiliation. This is the first study to focus exclusively on the detribalized Native experience of the Genízaro in New Mexico.
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Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest
This volume of proceedings from the fourteenth biennial Southwest Symposium explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest. The authors use diverse and innovative approaches and a variety of different data sets to examine the economic, social, and ideological implications of the different forms of interaction, presenting new ways to examine how social interaction and connectivity influenced cultural developments in the Southwest.
The book observes social interactions' role in the diffusion of ideas and material culture; the way different social units, especially households, interacted within and between communities; and the importance of interaction and interconnectivity in understanding the archaeology of the Southwest's northern periphery. Chapters demonstrate a movement away from strictly economic-driven models of social connectivity and interaction and illustrate that members of social groups lived in dynamic situations that did not always have clear-cut and unwavering boundaries. Social connectivity and interaction were often fluid, changing over time.
Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest is an impressive collection of established and up-and-coming Southwestern archaeologists collaborating to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline. It will be of interest to professional and academic archaeologists, as well as researchers with interests in diffusion, identity, cultural transmission, borders, large-scale interaction, or social organization.
Contributors:
Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, James R. Allison, Jean H. Ballagh, Catherine M. Cameron, Richard Ciolek-Torello, John G. Douglass, Suzanne L. Eckert, Hayward H. Franklin, Patricia A. Gilman, Dennis A. Gilpin, William M. Graves, Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin, Lindsay D. Johansson, Eric Eugene Klucas, Phillip O. Leckman, Myles R. Miller, Barbara J. Mills, Matthew A. Peeples, David A. Phillips Jr., Katie Richards, Heidi Roberts, Thomas R. Rocek, Tammy Stone, Richard K. Talbot, Marc Thompson, David T. Unruh, John A. Ware, Kristina C. Wyckoff
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Unreal city : Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West
An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures collidingHopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agenciesresulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don't ask where the water comes from. They don't see a city with the nation's highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don't see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Meadwhere Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money
is water.
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Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty
For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.
Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.
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Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change
Based on interviews with more than a thousand Navajo Indian men and women, this book examines the associations between childhood experiences and behavior and the development of alcohol dependence in adulthood. Because Navajo life has changed markedly over the past two generations, it also examines the role of urbanization and universal school in reshaping Navajo youth and considers the implications for changing patterns of alcohol use in adulthood. In addition, the book explores a wide range of timely issues such as domestic violence, factors associated with resistance to alcohol abuse as well as remission and recovery, the treatment and prevention of alcohol dependence, and the implications of pursuing either population-based preventive interventions or interventions focused on high risk individuals or groups.
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