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Chiefs and principal men: a question of leadership in treaty negotiations
Anthropologica • 29 • Published In 1987 • Pages: 39-60
By: Hansen, Lise C..
Abstract
During the nineteenth century, treaties were negotiated with various Indian peoples in Canada in an attempt to extinguish their interests in vast areas of land prior to settlement by non-natives. Representatives of the government …'assumed that chiefs and principal men who signed these treaties represented all bands living in treaty areas, and that signers had the authority to negotiate on behalf of their bands. However, ethnohistorical analysis suggests that this assumption was not necessarily valid, and that the concept of leadership in the context of treaty negotiations needs to be re-examined. Circumstances surrounding the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850 are used to explore this issue' (p. 39).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- nineteenth century
- Coverage Place
- Central Ojibwa: north shore of Lake Superior, Canada
- Notes
- Lise C. Hansen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60)
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians