民族历史学自二十世纪初开始崭露头角以来,直到四十年代期间,北美的一些文化人类学家、考古学家和历史学家,才首先在他们的著述和研究中系统地运用“民族历史学”这一术语描述新大陆土著民族的历史。在稍后的年代中,“民族历史学”是指任何有关非欧洲民族的历史研究。在这些研究工作中,人们通过运用文献、口头考古资料、概念框架结构以及文化人类学和社会人类学的洞察力,试图重建在与欧洲人接触以前及以后当地民族的历史。民族历史学家把历史资料和在这些社会现在成员中进行民族学研究的实地工作结合起 Since ethnic history began to emerge from the beginning of the twentieth century, some cultural anthropologists, archaeologists and historians in North America did not systematically apply “ethnographic historiography” in their writings and studies until the 1940s The term describes the history of indigenous peoples in the New World. In later years, “ethnic history” refers to any historical study of non-European peoples. In these research efforts, people seek to rebuild the history of their ethnic groups before and after their contacts with Europeans, through the use of literature, oral archeology, conceptual frameworks, and cultural anthropology and social anthropology insights. Ethnic historians combine historical data with fieldwork in the ethnology of current members of these societies