Brown, An
Ethnohistorian in Rupert's Land; Unfinished Conversations.
Nancie Loudon Gonzalez is an ethnographer and
ethnohistorian who obtained her PhD at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
One of the important innovations of Pringle's work was his collaboration with the great Iban
ethnohistorian, Benedict Sandin, and his ability to link the study of history with the methods of social anthropology.
To address this need, he equipped himself as an anthropologist and
ethnohistorian. He dedicated his life to training missionaries, using the tools these broad perspectives offered for understanding the changes that hitherto-colonized nations around the globe were undergoing in moving into the postcolonial situation.
See also Arthur J Ray, "Native History on Trial: Confessions of an Expert Witness" (2003) 84:2 The Canadian Historical Review 253; Arthur J Ray, "Creating the Image of the Savage in Defense of the Crown: The
Ethnohistorian in Court" (1990) 6:2 Native Studies Review 13; Hamar Foster & Alan Grove, "Looking Behind the Masks: A Land Claims Discussion Paper for Researchers, Lawyers and Their Employers" (1993) 27 UBC L Rev 213.
Ethnohistorian James Axtell dismisses this narrative as revisionism, though he concedes that settlers may have spread the practice more widely among the Aboriginal population.
He was the popular
ethnohistorian of the 'First Fleet', and of the beginnings of the British colonization of Australia (p.
Robert Joseph Flaherty is variously described as "the father of documentary filmmaking," an
ethnohistorian, or a visual anthropologist.
The resources of the
ethnohistorian are many and varied.