Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845
Cary Miller
Nov 2010 · U of Nebraska Press
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Cary Miller's Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 17601845 reexamines Ojibwe leadership practices and processes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, anthropologists who had studied Ojibwe leadership practices developed theories about human societies and cultures derived from the perceived Ojibwe model. Scholars believed that the Ojibwes typified an anthropological "type" of Native society, one characterized by weak social structures and political institutions. Miller counters those assumptions by looking at the historical record and examining how leadership was distributed and enacted long before scholars arrived on the scene. Miller uses research produced by Ojibwes themselves, American and British officials, and individuals who dealt with the Ojibwes, both in official and unofficial capacities. 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.
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Well researched. Despite what the euro-"american" has written about the Original People one only has to look at the many examples of fabrications and outright lies that were told, taught, and written about them. Also one only has to look around and do some very easy research themselvs. It is no secret that the Europeans today as well as in the past associated either their teams, organizations, companies, products of a zillion kind after the Original People. Most have to do with 'Power', 'strength', nobility' ... why is that? Cause they were."backwards", "weak" ... yeah right!
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Cary Miller is an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her articles have appeared in the American Indian Quarterly.
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