paulcthistle
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Bio
Paul C. Thistle is the former Curator and CAO of The Sam Waller Museum (1983-1995) and most recently Curator at the Langley Centennial Museum & National Exhibition Centre (2006-2009). He has 26+ years of mission and management work in museums & archives and continues to publish and consult in the field.
He writes the Solving Task Saturation for Museum Workers, the Critical Museology Miscellanea, and Saskatchewan River Region Indian-European Trade Relations blogs as well as operates ➣Thistle to the Point Museum Consulting.
In the field of ethnohistory, he is the author of the national, provincial, and academic award winning book Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840. Manitoba Native Studies II and related journal articles such as "The Twatt Family, 1780-1840: Amerindian, Ethnic Category, or Ethnic Group Identity?" reprinted in the 2007 book The Western Metis: Profile of a People.
He has teaching experience at the university, college, high school, museum programming, and museum professional development levels. He has many conference presentations to his credit, among them the 2022 American Association for State & Local History conference, Buffalo, NY, the 2014 Canadian Museums Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, & the 2012 American Association of Museums annual conference in Minneapolis, MN.
His educational background includes an Interdisciplinary M.A. in history and anthropology and a B.Ed. in cross-cultural and museum education from the University of Manitoba, a B.A. in anthropology and history from the University of Waterloo, and a Museology Certificate from the University of Winnipeg.