What have I learned about history and Historical thinking this term?
In this term I have learned that history can be written and explained in many different ways depending on how the story is told and who is deciphering it. Historical thinking is also largely influenced by who documented the history and who is deciphering it as well. In many cases settlers tried to write indigenous people out of history by limiting the documentation of them. This led to missing parts in history and made it so that people would think like the settlers and understand their point of view over the indigenous points of view. However the Indigenous peoples also kept forms of their own documentation and allowed for historians to understand their point of view as well. Each side of history is very important however when reading about one side and missing the other you find yourself believing in the one side of history, whereas that one piece might not always be the full story. When you have both sides of the historical evidence you begin to understand the full aspect of what history was like and you learn the truth of what it was like to live generations ago.
Historical thinking is greatly influenced by what era the historian who wrote the journal is from. If you read a journal by an indigenous person or settler from Pre- Confederation Canada you are going to find that you get a very jaded view on what the times were like, you get the view of the wars and illnesses from a first person perspective. Whereas if you read a journal done by a historian today on Pre- Confederation Canada you still get the true story of Pre- Confederation Canada but you get a lot more of the truth in a way because they are looking solely at the research and are not personally effected by what would have been happening around the previous first person historians