Doodem and Council Fire : Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance Leveled Readers Mabel English

Mabel English

In this volume are more than 125 biographies that together demonstrate the diversity and depth of Saskatchewan's First Nations community and the contributions of First Nations people to the province

a young Cree woman from Attawapiskat

the authors have also designed a dynamic companion website to recommend additional resources

By the middle part of the book

Doodem and Council Fire : Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance Leveled Readers Mabel EnglishSettler scholar, Heidi Bohaker, combines socio legal and ethnohistorical studies to present a book on 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,