Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2004

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2004

1491: in search of Native America.
September 22, 2004... We know of scarcely any record of destructive exploitation in all the span of human existence until we enter the period of modern history, when transatlantic expansion of European commerce, peoples, and governments takes place. Then begins what...

Tradition and change in eighteenth-century pueblo Indian communities.
September 22, 2004... In 1989, Charles Polzer wrote that "the whole history of the Spanish presence in North America... must be rewritten, not because it is wrong, but because it is incomplete" (182). Whereas there had been much written on Spanish institutions and...

Juan Bautista de Anza and the social-militarization of Bourbon El Paso: 1778-1788.
September 22, 2004... The rumor started to spread throughout settlements of El Paso in the dry, cold months of 1777. Pasenos had heard that Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta had requested release from his command and would soon be replaced. Don Pedro had served in...

Early anthropology on the southwest-great basin frontier: the 1883 fieldwork of Herman ten Kate.
September 22, 2004... In the United States the first courses in anthropology were taught at the University of Rochester (1879), the University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell University, 1882), and the University of Vermont (1885; Tooker 1990). Anthropologists and...

Cecil B. DeMille and the Tiburon Island adventure.
September 22, 2004... Cecil B. DeMille needed a vacation. He had been working hard preparing for a new motion picture to be titled The Ten Commandments (the 1923 silent black-and-white version), and he needed a break before the exhausting job of filming began. What...