The University of Toronto Press
is publishing a book on the Anishinaabe and clan identification markings on
treaties and legal documents during the 17th-19th
centuries.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 ooutlines 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Heidi Bohaker is an associate
professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1. The Doodem Tradition
2. Family in All Four Directions
3. Anishinaabe Constitutionalism
4. Governance in Action
5. Doodem in the Era of Settler
Colonialism
Conclusion
Bibliography
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