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 meaningfullyin the analysis of the researchers' findings. The historical research topics chosen by the Sto:lo 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 Sto:lo 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 fieldschool. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.
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 meaningfullyin the analysis of the researchers' findings. The historical research topics chosen by the Sto:lo 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 Sto:lo 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 fieldschool. The blending of methodologies and approaches from the humanities and social sciences is a model of twenty-first century interdisciplinarity.
KEITH THOR CARLSON is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan where he holds the Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.
JOHN SUTTON LUTZ is the Chair and a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria with a research focus on the relations between Indigenous people and Europeans in the Pacific Northwest.
DAVID M. SCHAEPE is the Director and Senior Archaeologist of the Stó lō Research and Resource Management Centre at Stó lō Nation.
NAXAXALHTS'I, also know as Albert "Sonny" McHalsie, is a
historical researcher and cultural interpreter who is employed as
Sxweyxweyá m (Historian)/Cultural Advisor for the Stó lō Research
and Resource Management Centre in Chilliwack, British
Columbia.
"Navigating the roiling waters of contemporary identity politics,
Indigenous issues, and scholarly debates are challenges in and of
themselves, but, in this collection of essays, the contributors
attempt to manage all three at once and calm the waters in the
process."--Kerry Abel "University of Toronto Quarterly"
"Blending archival research with critical theory, oral history, and
personal observation, the individual pieces explore the interplay
of continuity and change in Stó lō culture with a high degree of
nuance and sophistication."--Andrew H. Fisher "Pacific Northwest
Quarterly"
"Exemplifies a new, transdisciplinary approach to ethnohistory, in
which the researcher recognizes not only the legacy of settler
colonialism in Canada, but also the subjectivity and relativity of
their own views and western knowledge as a whole. This new
ethnohistory aims to work with the community at all levels of
research and form and sustain relationships that last long after
fieldwork is conducted. Its hope is to produce scholarship that is
cutting edge, complex, accessible and relevant to members of the
community."--Daniel Sims "NICHE"
"In a time when many scholars are looking to decolonize their
approaches to research--especially when working with Indigenous
communities--this book stands as a clear exemplar of
community-engaged research and demonstrates how it can be done
well."--Jennifer Megan Markides "Qualitative Research in
Education"
"Settler scholars concerned with disciplinary crises need look no
further than this excellent anthology for models of respectful
intercommunity engagement, radical methodology and pedagogy, and a
paradigm for solidarity work that chooses to develop respectful
relationships over moribund agonizing."--Madeleine Reddon "Canadian
Literature"
"The strength of the collection is its appreciation for and
attention to interpreting history with reference to Stó lō
interpretative frames."--Tyler McCreary "BC Booklook"
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