Rebuilding the White Earth Nation through Constitutional Reform
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 192-210
ISSN: 1469-9931
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In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 192-210
ISSN: 1469-9931
In: Politics, Groups, and Identities, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 86-102
ISSN: 2156-5511
In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth century. Specifically, I focus on the first constitutional government of the White Earth Nation, located in northwestern Minnesota, which in the period from 1913 to 1927 was part of a larger confederative arrangement, called the General Council of the Chippewa. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of this inter-reservation government for the preservation of White Earth Anishinaabe cultural continuity from which revitalization efforts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century grew. Using archival resources, I pay attention to Anishinaabe governing practices and their ethical dimension that can be understood in the light of Anishinaabe philosophy which was an integral part of everyday life. My findings suggest that the course of institutional development set by the creation of the General Council in 1913 influenced the path of White Earth governance for the rest of the century.
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In: American Indian culture and research journal: AICRJ, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 135-150
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