How ethno-historians changed conceptions

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

Resource summary

	Created by tdhein over 10 years ago