Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How ethno-historians changed conceptions
- showed FN had strong societies precontact
- decrease prejudicial views
- gave credence to beliefs
- freedom to follow culture
- increase value to FN people's culture
- changes the face of pre-contact FN from savages to cultured
- teaches us that FN culture can teach us how to make a better world
- given voice to FN point of view
- knowledge of previously invisible history
- validated oral histories
- given credence to unwritten history
- decreased bias
- created controversy and uncertainties
- shown injustices that have occurred
- slavery
- cruelty to FN
- shown FN as participants not victims
- active in looking for trading partners
- alliances were formed through trading
- part of culture and history was looking for easier ways survive
- use of trading goods for potlaches
- recognizes contradicting evidence and lost history
- criminalizing FN culture and religion
- High FN mortality of elders from disease
- created questions around correctness of written history
- bias from people writing history through own cultural lens
- vocabulary
- soldier vs warrior
- victories vs massacre
- patriots vs murderers
- judgement of ways of life
- ignored women as important to society
- propoganda
- dehuminizing victims to justify takeover
- ignoring history helps deligitimize
- interpreting history through the present
- added history from many sources
- anthropology
- archeology
- biology
- meterology
- oral histories