On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest

366 Pages·2012·4.673 MB·English

by  David Wallace Adams, Crista DeLuzio

On the Borders of
Love and Power
Families and Kinship in the Intercultural
American Southwest
Edited by
David Wallace Adams and
Crista DeLuzio
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
On the Borders of Love and Power
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On the Borders of
Love and Power
Families and Kinship in the Intercultural
American Southwest
Edited by
David Wallace Adams and
Crista DeLuzio
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
On the borders of love and power : families and kinship in the intercul-
tural American Southwest / edited by David Wallace Adams and Crista
DeLuzio.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978–0- 520–27238–5 (cloth, alk. paper) — isbn 978–0- 520–27239–2
(pbk., alk. paper)
1. Indians of North America— Kinship—West (U.S.) 2. Indians of
North America— Cultural assimilation— West (U.S.) 3. Hispanic
Americans— Kinship—West (U.S.) 4. Hispanic Americans— Cultural
assimilation— West (U.S.) 5. Frontier and pioneer life— West
(U.S)— History. 6. Family— West (U.S.)— History. 7. Kinship— West
(U.S.)— History. 8. West (U.S.)— Ethnic relations. 9. West (U.S.)—
History. I. Adams, David Wallace. II. DeLuzio, Crista.
E78.W5O54 2012
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For David and Carol Weber
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio
part one. diverse families and racial hierarchy
1. Breaking and Remaking Families: Th e Fostering and Adoption
of Native American Children in Non- Native Families in the
American West, 1880–1940 19
Margaret Jacobs
2. Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into
Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820–1875 47
Joaquín Rivaya- Martínez
3. “Seeking the Incalculable Benefi t of a Faithful, Patient Man
and Wife”: Families in the Federal Indian Ser vice, 1880–1925 71
Cathleen D. Cahill
4. Hard Choices: Mixed- Race Families and Strategies of Acculturation
in the U.S. West aft er 1848 93
Anne F. Hyde
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part two. law, order, and the regulation of family life
5. Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands:
A Cultural Account 119
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
6. Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the Ávila Estate
in Frontier California 141
Donna C. Schuele
7. “Who has a greater job than a mother?” Defi ning Mexican
Motherhood on the U.S.- Mexico Border in the Early
Twentieth Century 163
Monica Perales
8. Borderlands / La Familia: Mexicans, Homes, and Colonialism
in the Early Twentieth- Century Southwest 185
Pablo Mitchell
part three. borderland cultures and family relationships
9. Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in
Eighteenth- Century Pueblo Communities 209
Tracy Brown
10. Th e Paradox of Kinship: Native- Catholic Communities in Alta
California, 1769–1840s 231
Erika Pérez
11. Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Aff ection in Intercultural Arizona,
1864–1894 255
Katrina Jagodinsky
12. Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: “Th e Family,” “Th e West,”
and Th eir Chroniclers 278
Susan Lee Johnson
Selected Bibliography 319
List of Contributors 327
Index 331
Illustrations
MAP
6.1 Land grants in Mexican California 1 44
FIGURES
1.1 Zinka Nuni, ca. 1891 2 3
1.2 Fanny and Betty Wetherill, early to mid- 1920s 3 3
1.3 Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw with husband Manuel Nuñez, ca. 1920 38
2.1 Captives’ sex and age at capture 5 3
2.2 Captives’ ethnic extraction by de cade 63
2.3 Semeno’s tombstone in Highland Cemetery, Lawton, Oklahoma 6 4
3.1 Faculty of the Albuquerque Indian School, 1883 8 1
3.2 Yakima Indian employees and schoolchildren, Fort Simcoe, Washington,
ca. 1888 82
4.1 Donald McKay, Dr. William McKay, and son 99
4.2 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft , 1800–1842 1 02
4.3 John Bernardo Wilson, 1848–1870 1 08
6.1 Painting of Antonio Ygnacio Ávila by Henri Penelon 142
10.1 Photograph of baptismal font from the mission San Luís Obispo 2 36
11.1 Jack Swilling with Guillermo Swilling, ca. 1875 2 65
11.2 Portrait of Jack Swilling with Guillermo Swilling removed, ca. 1890 2 66
12.1 Kit Carson, 1840s 2 81
12.2 Josefa Jaramillo, 1840s 2 82
12.3 Bernice Blackwelder and Harold Blackwelder, 1970s 3 00
12.4 Quantrille McClung, 1970s 301
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