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- Anishinabek / Anishinaabeg / Nishnaabe / Ojibwe / ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ
- Saulteaux / Anihšināpē / Nakawē
- Oji-Cree / Anishinini
- Odawa
- Potawatomi / Bodéwadmi
- Mississaugas
- Nipissing
- Algonquin / Omàmiwininiwak / Anicinàpe
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- Mnoomin / wild rice
- Turtle Island
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- Michilimackinac
- Dish with One Spoon treaty
- Seven Fires prophecy
- Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers
- Pontiac's War
For a list of Anishinaabe dodem (clans), see here.
Dish with One Spoon
"The Hiawatha Wampum Belt, or Dish with One Spoon, a pre-contact treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe, refers to the sharing of the land surrounding Lake Ontario and the eastern shores of the St. Lawrence River (one bowl) with only taking what you need and leaving enough for others (one spoon)." From AFN, "Treaties and Why They are Important."
Anishinaabe Territory
Anishinaabe territories. Accessed from native-land.ca
Featured Materials
- Looking after Gdoo-naaganinaa: Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty Relationships byPublication Date: 2008Journal article outlining pre-colonial treaty-making with other nations, including the land, animals, and humans.
Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg leadership, 1760-1845 by ISBN: 9780803295254Publication Date: 2010"Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760–1845 reexamines Ojibwe leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries... By examining the hereditary position of leaders who served as civil authorities over land and resources and handled relations with outsiders, the warriors, and the respected religious leaders of the Midewiwin society, Miller provides an important new perspective on Ojibwe history."
Doodem and council fire: Anishinaabe governance through alliance by Call Number: E99.C6 B64 2020ISBN: 1442615435Publication Date: 2020"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."
Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth by Call Number: YS B38 A35 2021ISBN: 9780228008071Publication Date: 2021Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day.
Our hearts are as one fire : an Ojibway-Anishinabe vision for the future by Call Number: CBH F65 U7 2020ISBN: 9780774862875Publication Date: 2020"This remarkable work draws on Ojibway-, Ota'wa-, and Ishkodawatomi-Anishinabe world views, history, and lived experience to develop a wholly Ojibway-Anishinabe interpretation of the role of traditional leadership and governance today."- Ka'esi Wahkotumahk Aski = Our relations with the land byPublication Date: 2014Includes Dakota governance as well.
Theses & Dissertations
- Belonging to Lake Nipissing: Knowledge, Governance, and Human-Fish Relations byPublication Date: 2017"Fishing constitutes an essential relation through which Nipissing peoples belong to Lake Nipissing. Belonging in and through human-fish relations is an affective, embodied, and dynamic relation. It is a reciprocal relation that expresses an Anishinaabe cosmology and rich knowledge and governance traditions."
- gi-mi-ni-go-wi-ni-nan o-gi-ma-wi-win zhigo o-gi-ma-win (The gifts of traditional leadership and governance) byPublication Date: 2013Dissertation, Trent University.
- Towards Anishnaabe governance and accountability: reawakening our relationships and sacred Bimaadiziwin byPublication Date: 2006"This thesis will examine the interrelationships that exist between individuals and collectives in Anishnaabe governance systems. These relationships are defined by roles and responsibilities that ultimately contribute to how governance is expressed amongst Anishnaabeg."
Other Resources
- Restorative Dispute Resolution in Anishinaabe Communities – Restoring Conceptions of Relationships Based on DodemBy Patricia D. Mcguire. Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance May, 2008.
- Podcast: Roundtable on the Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement"In this Yellowhead podcast, Eva Jewell, Damien Lee and Hayden King reflect on the Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement, their community’s experiences with the ANGA, how this form of self-government aligns with traditional forms of governance, the (un)democratic nature of the ratification vote, membership issues, and the fiscal agreement."
Film and Video
Organizations
- Anishinaabek NationThe Anishinabek Nation established the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) as its secretariat in 1949. The UOI was established because the Anishinabek Nation did not legally exist and a legal entity was required to enter into legally-binding agreements. The Anishinabek Nation is a political advocate for 39 member First Nations across Ontario. The Anishinabek Nation is the oldest political organization in Ontario and can trace its roots back to the Confederacy of Three Fires, which existed long before European contact.
- York University - Anishinaabe Law CampSince September 2014, in collaboration with the Chippewas of Nawash, Osgoode has proudly hosted an annual Anishinaabe Law Camp at Neyaashiinigmiing. Under the guidance of some of the community’s best knowledge-holders –- legal scholars, ecologists, leaders and elders –- the annual Camp provides about 35 to 40 students and six to eight faculty members with an introduction to Anishinaabe legal concepts and principles, pedagogies and modes of reasoning.