The Last Days of the Mosquito Reservation: The Mosquito Indian Diplomatic Mission to Restore the Mosquito Reservation, 1894–1907.
Geopolitical changes taking place in late nineteenth-century Central America laid the pathway for Nicaragua's long-desired incorporation of the autonomous Mosquito Reservation, which was located on its Caribbean Coast. This article brings to light the diplomatic mission undertaken by Mosquito Indian...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 299 - 320 |
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Duke University Press
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