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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External trade
- Status, role, and prestige
- Community heads
- External relations
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- nineteenth century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: north shore of Lake Superior, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lise C. Hansen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians