Doodem and council fire : Anishinaabe governance through alliance / Heidi Bohaker.
2020
KC203 .B643 2020
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Title
Doodem and council fire : Anishinaabe governance through alliance / Heidi Bohaker.
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Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Description
xxxii, 245 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Formatted Contents Note
The Doodem tradition
Family in all four directions
Anishinaabe constitutionalism
Governance in action
Doodem in the era of settler colonialism.
Family in all four directions
Anishinaabe constitutionalism
Governance in action
Doodem in the era of settler colonialism.
Summary
"Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. These doodems reflected fundamental principles behind Anishinaabe governance that were often ignored by Europeans, who referred to Indigenous polities in terms of tribe, nation, band, or village - classifications that failed to fully encompass longstanding cultural traditions of political authority within Anishinaabe society. Making creative use of natural history, treaty pictographs, and the Ojibwe language as an analytical tool, Doodem and Council Fire delivers groundbreaking insights into Anishinaabe law. The author asks not only what these doodem markings indicate, but what they may also reveal through their exclusions. The book also outlines the continuities, changes, and innovations in Anishinaabe governance through the concept of council fires and the alliances between them. Original and path-breaking, Doodem and Council Fire offers a fresh approach to Indigenous history, presenting a new interpretation grounded in a deep understanding of the nuances and distinctiveness of Anishinaabe culture and Indigenous traditions."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Bohaker, Heidi, 1968- Doodem and council fire. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2020
Call Number
KC203 .B643 2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781442647312 (hardcover)
1442647310 (hardcover)
9781442667860 (PDF)
9781442667877 (EPUB)
1442647310 (hardcover)
9781442667860 (PDF)
9781442667877 (EPUB)
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