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History 224 - History of Canada to 1867 FINAL EXAM TIPS Athabasca University Unit 1 1. How has the work of ethnohistorians changed our conception of pre-contact Native life? . Ethnohistorians throughout the years have changed our idea of precontact Native life by providing readers with judgmental biases shaped by the historians background, ethnicity, upbringing, and level in class . These biases result in different conclusions of history . For example: straight, white, European males will have negative biases towards precontact Native life based on societal norms in Europe, which indicate Natives as primitive savages, with no culture, class, or form of modern society compared to a black African American slave. . Ex. Male historians who studied Native life often focused on Native men this is because in European society women were subordinates to their husbands, leaving them with little civil rights. European historians set aside Native women's roles in the economy, religion and warfare. . Looking at these biases in present day they are often seen as a self serving myth for many Europeans to justify the theft of Native lands and resources . It was easier to dehumanize their victims than to take responsibility for this destructive actions . Europeans believed it to be a "necessary step towards civilization" . Present day historians completely dismiss this idea knowing better than to fall into pre contact judgements . With the combination of explorer reports, archeological sources, data provided by meteorologists, biologists, and Native oral history historians examine all evidence to recreate the lives of the earliest inhabitants of Canada. . Present day historians now have the knowledge that Natives had along complex history before European contact « They were not sedentary or vegetate as pre written history suggests . Natives had complex lives that included technological advancements, large communities/societies, informal and formal government (ex. Informal - hunter gathering societies - Black foot, formal - agricultural societies - |roquoians), religious rituals and 
