You are invited to the Brown Bag Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
12 noon to 1 p.m.

Captivity, Slavery, and Adoption among the Comanche Indians,
ca. 1706-1875

Text Box: The Comanche Indians captured, enslaved, and/or adopted scores of people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and geographical origins throughout the pre-reservation period (ca. 1706-1875).  In this presentation, based on documentary, ethnographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as personal interviews with contemporary Comanches, Dr. Rivaya-Martínez will discuss Comanche motivations for seizing, enslaving, and assimilating outsiders, the personal characteristics of Comanche captives, the ways in which they could be integrated into Comanche kinship and social networks, the roles and statuses accessible to them, and their overall economic and demographic relevance in pre-reservation Comanche society.  

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Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
 Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America 2007-08
Southern Methodist University

 

 

 

 



 


Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Associate Professor of History at Texas State University, received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in September 2006. His primary area of specialization is the ethnohistory of the indigenous peoples of the South Plains and the so-called “Spanish Borderlands.  He is spending the '07-'08 academic year at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies as a  Research Fellow completing his manuscript, “Captivity and Adoption Among the Comanche Indians,  1700-1875,”  for publication.

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