{"id":972,"date":"2020-12-01T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=972"},"modified":"2021-02-18T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:57:04","slug":"doodem-and-council-fire-anishinaabe-governance-through-alliance-by-heidi-bohaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance by Heidi Bohaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>from University of Toronto Press<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Doodem-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Doodem-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Doodem-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Doodem-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Doodem.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2013 classifications that failed to fully encompass longstanding cultural traditions of political authority within Anishinaabe society.<br><br>Making creative use of natural history, treaty pictographs, and the Ojibwe language as an analytical tool,&nbsp;<em>Doodem and Council Fire<\/em>&nbsp;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,&nbsp;<em>Doodem and Council Fire<\/em>&nbsp;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.<br><br>The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has selected&nbsp;<em>Doodem and Council Fire<\/em>&nbsp;as its&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osgoodesociety.ca\/book\/doodem-and-council-fire-anishinabe-governance-through-alliance\" target=\"_blank\">members book for 2020<\/a>. Members of the Osgoode Society will receive a free copy of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/utorontopress.com\/ca\/doodem-and-council-fire-2\" style=\"color:#8d1a1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purchase <em>Doodem and Council Fire<\/em> here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from University of Toronto Press 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/?p=972\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newsletter-stories","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grasac.artsci.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}