Providing rare insights into the doodem tradition and the concept of council fires, this book explores Indigenous law and the Anishinaabe's holistic approach to governance, territoriality, family, and kinship structures.
Providing rare insights into the doodem tradition and the concept of council fires, this book explores Indigenous law and the Anishinaabe's holistic approach to governance, territoriality, family, and kinship structures.
Anishinaabe peoples of North America's Great Lakes region include people known as Algonquin, Chippewa, Ojibwe, Mississauga, Potawatomi and Ottawa or Odawa. These labels reflect imposed European categories of political organization such as nation or tribe. This dissertation argues that a more nuanced political history of the region is possible by making use instead of indigenous ontological categories for socio-political organization, and indigenous terms of collective identity. While Anishinaabe is a general term that describes people who speak a common language and share a common cultural tradition, the region's political history becomes more sharply defined with attention to the role of the patrilineal kinship networks that represent the very heart and soul of Anishinaabe identity: nindoodemag . This dissertation explores the centrality nindoodem identity in Anishinaabe political tradition over three centuries and the role that this significant cultural institution played in shaping indigenous responses to contact, missionization, changing material relations, encroaching settlements and colonization. ...
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