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

Mabel English

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as well as to the study of oral history

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,