{"title":"Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range. By James A. Young and Charlie D. Clements","authors":"Micah T Chang","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43480151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the lives and experiences of two Yavapai first cousins during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of these men was very well known (Wassaja, or Carlos Montezuma), while the other was less so (Hoomothya, or Mike Burns). While both secured American citizenship and a degree of success in mainstream American society, their lives were also plagued by bitter disappointments and personal turmoil. Using the Yavapai concept of nagock hona umi—a Yavapai term meaning unwellness in an individual—the article demonstrates how and why these two Yavapai cousins experienced profound, lifelong unwellness. This unwellness began in childhood, when both were captured by enemies and ripped from their families, and it remained untreated throughout their lives. This article serves as an invitation to scholars to utilize Indigenous methodologies originating from Indigenous communities to better understand how they experienced—and continue to experience—colonialism, genocide, assimilation policies, citizenship and liberalism, and life in the “modern” world.
{"title":"Captive Cousins: Hoomothya, Wassaja, and a Lifetime of Unwellness","authors":"Maurice S. Crandall","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the lives and experiences of two Yavapai first cousins during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of these men was very well known (Wassaja, or Carlos Montezuma), while the other was less so (Hoomothya, or Mike Burns). While both secured American citizenship and a degree of success in mainstream American society, their lives were also plagued by bitter disappointments and personal turmoil. Using the Yavapai concept of nagock hona umi—a Yavapai term meaning unwellness in an individual—the article demonstrates how and why these two Yavapai cousins experienced profound, lifelong unwellness. This unwellness began in childhood, when both were captured by enemies and ripped from their families, and it remained untreated throughout their lives. This article serves as an invitation to scholars to utilize Indigenous methodologies originating from Indigenous communities to better understand how they experienced—and continue to experience—colonialism, genocide, assimilation policies, citizenship and liberalism, and life in the “modern” world.","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83595541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Settler colonists in the nineteenth-century American West thought humans could engineer climate change. The supposed method varied: agriculturists and boosters argued that farming moderated climates, arboriculturists that forest belts humidified the air, and popular theorists that shooting the sky with artillery could shock rain out of it. This article shows that these theories gained credibility from the ways they mimicked the language and appearance of science and statistics. Climate counter-experts became famous because they could put on a performance of seeming scientific fluency. These techno-optimists produced theory after theory that remaking western environments to be more humid, green, and cultivable required the extension of American empire and ecologies, and the extirpation of Indigenous peoples and ecologies. Each theory fell in turn after material conditions of drought and catastrophe proved them wrong. But these ideas nevertheless survived into the climate politics of the present day.
{"title":"Beyond Rainmaking: Climate Engineering on the Nineteenth Century Great Plains","authors":"Robin Suits","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad041","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Settler colonists in the nineteenth-century American West thought humans could engineer climate change. The supposed method varied: agriculturists and boosters argued that farming moderated climates, arboriculturists that forest belts humidified the air, and popular theorists that shooting the sky with artillery could shock rain out of it. This article shows that these theories gained credibility from the ways they mimicked the language and appearance of science and statistics. Climate counter-experts became famous because they could put on a performance of seeming scientific fluency. These techno-optimists produced theory after theory that remaking western environments to be more humid, green, and cultivable required the extension of American empire and ecologies, and the extirpation of Indigenous peoples and ecologies. Each theory fell in turn after material conditions of drought and catastrophe proved them wrong. But these ideas nevertheless survived into the climate politics of the present day.","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83615908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Throughout the post-Civil War era, Black soldiers in the U.S. Army were at the vanguard of U.S. expansion in the U.S. West. Rather than focusing solely on their official military duties however, this article examines Black troops’ off-duty activities, specifically the complex economic and social ties they developed with civilians who resided near the posts they garrisoned in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In many cases, these connections transcended the very geographic, racial, and ethnic boundaries that Black soldiers were charged with policing, illustrating that relationships between local people and agents of the U.S. government in the region were more complex than scholars have previously acknowledged. Relying on transcripts from U.S. Army general courts-martial proceedings, this article demonstrates how these interactions shaped Black enlisted men’s perceptions of themselves, army life, and the locales they policed and inhabited. These interactions between Black soldiers and local people often undermined the Army’s official missions, but they allowed Black troops to improve the quality of their lives and demonstrate the persistent fluidity and porousness of the southwest borderlands.
{"title":"Off Duty: Black Soldiers and Mobility in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 1866–1890","authors":"Valentin Edward","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad039","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Throughout the post-Civil War era, Black soldiers in the U.S. Army were at the vanguard of U.S. expansion in the U.S. West. Rather than focusing solely on their official military duties however, this article examines Black troops’ off-duty activities, specifically the complex economic and social ties they developed with civilians who resided near the posts they garrisoned in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In many cases, these connections transcended the very geographic, racial, and ethnic boundaries that Black soldiers were charged with policing, illustrating that relationships between local people and agents of the U.S. government in the region were more complex than scholars have previously acknowledged. Relying on transcripts from U.S. Army general courts-martial proceedings, this article demonstrates how these interactions shaped Black enlisted men’s perceptions of themselves, army life, and the locales they policed and inhabited. These interactions between Black soldiers and local people often undermined the Army’s official missions, but they allowed Black troops to improve the quality of their lives and demonstrate the persistent fluidity and porousness of the southwest borderlands.","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75607473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America: Strong Women, Resilient Nations. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Donna L. Akers, and Amanda K. Wixon","authors":"Margaret Connell-Szasz","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89298599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana. By Mark T. Johnson","authors":"L. Madokoro","doi":"10.1093/whq/whac076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whac076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86589524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. Second Edition Quintard Taylor","authors":"Herbert G Ruffin","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85461262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872. By Daniel J. Burge","authors":"Maria Angela Diaz","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79930493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945. By Andrea Geiger","authors":"Matt K. Matsuda","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78915761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom. by R. Isabela Morales","authors":"A. Wilkinson","doi":"10.1093/whq/whad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44317,"journal":{"name":"WESTERN HISTORICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89561599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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