Great Chieftains of the Mojave Indians

Sherer, Lorraine M.; McCormick, Robert

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“…With the Mohave now “pacified” under the control of the garrison at Fort Mohave, it seems that Irataba stepped up as an advocate for peaceful and collaborative relations with the whites. The hereditary leader of the Mohave, Homoseh quahote of the Malika clan (the traditional leaders of the Mohave nation), seems to have rather preferred ignoring whites as long as possible (Sherer , , ). The Mohave came within the authority of the superintendent of Indian Affairs of Arizona territory, Charles Debrille Poston, who seems to have worked closely with Irataba and considered him the general political representative of all of the Mohave (Caylor ).…”

Section: Tracing Manifest Destiny: a Historiography Of Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scrivner's account follows the same pattern and, as is the case for Waters's books, seems to build mostly on Woodward's work. The authors of these popular works likely chose to use Woodward as a source because he frames his account as a biography of Irataba whereas the anthropological accounts extant at the time (Devereux ; Kroeber ; Kroeber and Kroeber ; Sherer ; Stewart , ) only describe Irataba obliquely while providing a more general overview of the social and political history of the Mohave people.…”

Section: From Woodward To Waters To Wikipedia: Selecting the Wrong Somentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through the intervention in the peer review of this group of outside editors (whom I later learned were in fact monitoring Rationalobserver closely because they mistakenly suspected her of wrongdoing against one of them), new sources were brought into play. These sources included Sherer , Kroeber , Caylor , and Mifflin . Nevertheless, the discussion largely stayed at the level of specific phrases and expressions, and the article retained the overall narrative arc.…”

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“…These events provided the key to understanding Irataba's political role within the Mohave nation as well as his ambiguous legacy. This aspect of the narrative, however, was only found in the anthropological literature, specifically Kroeber 1965, Kroeber and Kroeber 1974, Sherer and 1993, and Caylor . It was entirely lost in the tradition relying on newspaper sources, official U.S. documentation, and popular accounts such as Woodward and , Scrivner , and Waters .…”

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Writing Irataba: On Representing Native Americans on Wikipedia

Hansen

2016

American Anthropologist

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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is simultaneously an experiment in anarchic knowledge production and a realization of the long dream of modernity: storing all human knowledge. It is also a battleground for the politics of representation and for creating and circulating realities and "Wikialities." I ethnographically describe how Wikipedians, most of whom are white Anglo-Americans, negotiate the representation of Native Americans as objects of encyclopedic knowledge and how the sins of our anthropological forebears come back to haunt us in this process. In 2015, I participated in the collaborative writing of the article on Irataba or Yara tav, who was an important leader of the Mohave people of California and Arizona in the late 19th century. This process brought representational dilemmas to the fore in the negotiation between the inadequacies of historical and anthropological knowledge and Wikipedia's policies establishing how to authorize and re-represent narratives. These dilemmas point out to us, as 21st-century anthropologists, that we have a responsibility for being the stewards of the knowledge created by anthropologists past as well as for correcting their mistakes and guiding the global public of readers and writers when they make forays into our traditional territories. [Wikipedia, representation of Native Americans, public anthropology, history of anthropology] RESUMEN Wikipedia, la enciclopedia en línea que cualquiera puede editar, es simultáneamente un experimento en la producción anárquica de conocimiento y una realización del largo sueño de modernidad: almacenar todo el conocimiento humano. Es también un campo de batalla para la política de representación y para la creación y circulación de realidades y "Wikialidades". Describo etnográficamente cómo Wikipedistas, la mayoría de los cuales son blancos, angloamericanos, negocian la representación de indígenas de los Estados Unidos como objetos de conocimiento enciclopédico y cómo los pecados de nuestros antepasados antropológicos vuelven a atormentarnos en este proceso. En 2015, participé en la escritura colaborativa del artículo sobre Irataba o Yaratav, un líder importante de los Mohave de California y Arizona a finales del siglo XIX. Este proceso puso de relieve dilemas representacionales en la negociación entre las deficiencias del conocimiento histórico y antropológico y las políticas de Wikipedia para autorizar y re-representar narrativas. Estos dilemas nos señalan, como antropólogos del siglo XXI y como salvaguardas del conocimiento creado por antropólogos pasados, que tenemos una responsabilidad para corregir los errores de losúltimos y guiar al público global de lectores y escritores cuando ellos hacen incursiones en nuestros territorios tradicionales. [Wikipedia, representación de los indígenas de los Estados Unidos, antropología pública, historia de la antropología]

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Section: From Woodward To Waters To Wikipedia: Selecting the Wrong Somentioning

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The Lost Meridian of the ’Aha Makhav

Weber

2021

Cartographica

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Le système d’arpentage Public Land Survey a été instauré en 1785 afin que soit établi rapidement le levé du vaste domaine des terres publiques des États-Unis. Il en est résulté un schéma familier de townships de six milles de côté, subdivisés en sections, avec une grille caractéristique délimitant les propriétés foncières, que l’on retrouve sur la plus grande partie du territoire du Midwest et de l’Ouest américain. À mesure que le système se déploie, l’arpentage de nouveaux lieux nécessite le choix de nouveaux méridiens de référence. Un ensemble de 31 de ces méridiens apparaissent sur d’innombrables cartes. L’auteur montre que l’historique coutumier du déploiement de l’arpentage ne tient pas compte de son rapport avec les Amérindiens et particulièrement les réserves indiennes. Il existait essentiellement deux séries de levés, l’une pour les Blancs et l’autre pour les Amérindiens. Cette dernière était beaucoup plus modeste et est pratiquement disparue. En 1875, un méridien a été choisi pour délimiter la réserve indienne du fleuve Colorado en Arizona. Le méridien du fleuve Colorado a tenu pendant 38 ans avant d’être gommé par un nouvel arpentage. La suppression de ce méridien est attribuable au stratagème d’une société minière pour mettre la main sur des richesses minières convoitées ; la société a conspiré avec les fonctionnaires du ministère du Department of the Interior pour obtenir l’aval du président Wilson. Il en reste peu de vestiges aujourd’hui.

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Great Chieftains of the Mojave Indians

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