Anishinaabe Treaty-Making in the 18th-and-19th-Century Northern Great Lakes: From Shared Meanings to Epistemological Chasms

• Main Author: Alan Theodore Ojiig Corbiere
• Other Authors: Carolyn Podruchny
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Native American studies; Anishinaabe; Anishinaabeg; Anishinaabemowin; wampum; wampum protocol; wampum belt; wampum strings; treaty; Indigenous; Native American; Ojibwe; Ojibway; Ojibwa; Ottawa; Odawa; Odaawaa; Covenant Chain; diplomacy; calumet; medal; mnemonics; Treaty of Niagara; Haudenosaunee relations; Dish with one spoon; Indian Presents; Royal Proclamation; chiefs' speeches; clans; doodemag; doodem; diplomatic discourse; British; French; mnemonic; oral tradition; orality; Indian; Calumet; algonquin; anishina*
• Online Access: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37275

This dissertation looks at the evolution of Anishinaabe treaty-making process via the diplomatic language and implements used (wampum, calumet pipes, medals, clothing, texts, and paper). Anishinaabe people include the Ojibwe, Odaawaa, Potawatomi, Mississauga, Algonquin, Nipissing and Saulteaux. Trea...