Native American History
Problems of Success
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895084 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce G Trigger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 137-146 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-026-01-07 |
| OpenAlex | W1968770470 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Matthew Dennis. Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European En- counters in Seventeenth-Century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 280. Ian K. Steele. Warpaths: Invasions of North America. Oxford: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 282. What is variously called Native American history, aboriginal history, or now, with increasing reluctance (because the term is rightly viewed as ethno- centric), ethnohistory constitutes the oldest and most highly developed of the minority histories that have transformed the practice of history in recent decades. While the study of Native American history began mainly in anthro- pology in the late 1930s, it has been taken up by growing numbers of his- torians and geographers who have brought their own important skills and in- sights to this enterprise. This research has not only shed light on facets of North American history that were hitherto ignored, but has also demonstra- ted that native peoples were effective and resourceful participants in shaping that history. This, in turn, has vastly and irreversibly transformed the tradi- tional Euro-American understanding of the role played by European colo- nists. Indian history is now recognized as essential for understanding the genera! course of North American history into modern times. It has even been argued that its most important achievement to date has not been what Euro-American scholars have found out about Native American behaviour, but its revealing of some of the profound biases and misunderstandings that have coloured non-native perceptions of native people and helped to shape Euro-American policies toward them (Trigger 1986)
American history · Ancient history · Environmental ethics · Ethnohistory · Ethnology · Native american · Sociology · World history · Anthropology · Classics · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |