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

"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.

Author: Keith Thor Carlson
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 04/20/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780887558177

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.

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.