Inclusion. An ideology that has taken time for historians to understand. A narrative of the World’s history has existed for centuries untouched only until recently. This narrative is recycled over time and told over and over again despite it often being false. Historians like Francis Jennings and Michael Witgen use their scholarship research to combat a false representation of Native Americans in history. Using historiography, these two authors, like many others, look to disprove what's been circulating. Positives and weaknesses aside, their work serves to illustrate strong examples of a survey of their field during the 1970s and the late 2000s. Over time, the voice of historical narrative has shifted to become one of inclusion and diversity.
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The narrative that Native Americans lack civilization therefore Europeans must civilize them from savagery. Meanwhile Europeans failed to realize the difference in their culture and ignored Native Americans structure of civilization since it looked different from their own. He aims to explain why that interpretation of civilized versus uncivilized has come to be by explaining why others think that. In Jennings monograph, The Invasion of America, looks to abolish the old impressions of Native American history. Using historians and scholars of the past such as Lewis Henry Morgan, Francis Parkman, J.H Parry, and many others, Jennings takes a different approach. By using anthropological, sociology, ethno-history and Marxist views based approaches as a reaction from previous generations. As he works through his monograph, each chapter is a new school of thought to look at Native Americans, especially those settled in New England. He shatters the idea of Eastern Woodland Indians as nomadic hunters highlighting their interactions with Europeans in trade. While a bold step in the field, there are some draws to his work. Jennings does fail to include women in his telling despite some Native Americans being matrilineal societies, meaning women would have been involved. Jennings focuses on the idea of the discovery or conquest …show more content…
Through his use of New Historicism, he aims to provide a framework so that one can find meaning in the ideas or assumptions of a particular historical era. Using this literacy technique in a historical work allows Witgen to focus on the why. Both Stephen Greenblatt and this ideology are an influence on this
The narrative that Native Americans lack civilization therefore Europeans must civilize them from savagery. Meanwhile Europeans failed to realize the difference in their culture and ignored Native Americans structure of civilization since it looked different from their own. He aims to explain why that interpretation of civilized versus uncivilized has come to be by explaining why others think that. In Jennings monograph, The Invasion of America, looks to abolish the old impressions of Native American history. Using historians and scholars of the past such as Lewis Henry Morgan, Francis Parkman, J.H Parry, and many others, Jennings takes a different approach. By using anthropological, sociology, ethno-history and Marxist views based approaches as a reaction from previous generations. As he works through his monograph, each chapter is a new school of thought to look at Native Americans, especially those settled in New England. He shatters the idea of Eastern Woodland Indians as nomadic hunters highlighting their interactions with Europeans in trade. While a bold step in the field, there are some draws to his work. Jennings does fail to include women in his telling despite some Native Americans being matrilineal societies, meaning women would have been involved. Jennings focuses on the idea of the discovery or conquest …show more content…
Through his use of New Historicism, he aims to provide a framework so that one can find meaning in the ideas or assumptions of a particular historical era. Using this literacy technique in a historical work allows Witgen to focus on the why. Both Stephen Greenblatt and this ideology are an influence on this