Research Catalog

Title

Ogimaag : Anishinaabeg leadership, 1760-1845 / Cary Miller.

Author

Miller, Cary, 1969-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

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Description

vii, 314 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

"Cary Miller's Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760-1845 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Ojibwa Indians > Kings and rulers > 19th century
• Ojibwa Indians > Kings and rulers > 18th century
• Ojibwa Indians > Politics and government > 18th century
• Ojibwa Indians > Politics and government > 19th century
• Indian leadership > Northeastern States > History > 18th century
• Indian leadership > Northeastern States > History > 19th century
• Power (Social sciences) > Northeastern States > History > 18th century
• Power (Social sciences) > Northeastern States > History > 19th century
• Ojibwa Indians > Kings and rulers
• Northeastern States > Politics and government
• Northeastern States > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Power in the Anishinaabeg world -- Ogimaag : hereditary leaders -- Mayosewininiwag : military leaders -- Gechi-Midewijig : Midewiwin leaders -- The contest for chiefly authority at Fond du Lac -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 9780803234048 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080323404X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010010136

OCLC

555650080

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library