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Havasupai political structure and leadershipessay 1987 • Martin, John Franklin
Havasupai • North America > Southwest and Basin
In the forty-four years since the election of the first Havasupai Tribal Council Chairman, nineteen individuals have served in that capacity. The mean tenure is thus 2.2 years but this rather brief tenure masks further instability; among the eleven i...A reconsideration of Havasupai land tenurearticle 1968 • Martin, John Franklin
Havasupai • North America > Southwest and Basin
In 1947, Elman R Service described Havasupai land rights as being distributed among the proprietor, the family, and the community, finding that the proprietor has little more than use rights and that the family ordinarily determines the choice of hei...The prehistory and ethnohistory of Havasupai-Hualapai relationsarticle 1985 • Martin, John Franklin
Havasupai • North America > Southwest and Basin
There are at least three distinct versions of Havasupai-Hualapai origins and ethnohistoric relations: those of Kroeber, Schwartz, and Euler and Dobyns. Each version appears in the articles on the Havasupai, the Hualapai, and comparative social organi...An account of the natives of the Tonga islands, in the South Pacific oceanBook 1818 • Mariner, William & Martin, John
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
William Mariner, a young captain's clerk on a British privateering ship, was spared when the ship was attacked by the natives of the Tonga Islands. He spent the next four years (1806-1810) living among the natives and participating in their activitie...An account of the natives of the Tonga islands, in the South Pacific oceanBook 1818 • Mariner, William & Martin, John
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
In this second volume of Mariner's account of his captivity in the Tonga Islands, Mariner continues his narration of events and his eventual escape. After this he describes the system of ranking, professional classes, age and sex status, religious te...