Towards a New Ethnohistory: Community-Engaged Scholarship among the People of the River - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887558178 ISBN 13: 9780887558177

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Synopsis

"Towards a New Ethnohistory" engages respectfully in cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary methods to co-create with Indigenous people a new, decolonized ethnohistory. This new ethnohistory reflects Indigenous ways of knowing and is a direct response to critiques of scholars who have for too long foisted their own research agendas onto Indigenous communities. Community-engaged scholarship invites members of the Indigenous community themselves to identify the research questions, host the researchers while they conduct the research, and participate meaningfully in the analysis of the researchers’ findings.

The historical research topics chosen by the Stó:lō community leaders and knowledge keepers for the contributors to this collection range from the intimate and personal, to the broad and collective. But what principally distinguishes the analyses is the way settler colonialism is positioned as something that unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways within Stó:lō history,
as opposed to the other way around.

This collection presents the best work to come out of the world’s only graduate-level humanities-based ethnohistory field school. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.

About this title

About the Author:

Keith Thor Carlson is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan, where he holds the Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged history.

Review:

“At a time when Indigenous sovereignty has come to the fore, this volume sets the ‘gold standard’ for ethical scholarship and provides a roadmap and manifesto for sensible and sensitive decolonization.” (Chris Friday Western Washington University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0887558178
• ISBN 13: 9780887558177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Carlson Keith Thor, Lutz John Sutton, Schaepe David M., McHalsie Naxaxalhts’i – Albert “Sonny”