No need of a chief for this band : the Maritime Mi'kmaq and federal electoral legislation, 1899-1951 / / Martha Elizabeth Walls
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Walls Martha <1972->
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| Titolo: |
No need of a chief for this band : the Maritime Mi'kmaq and federal electoral legislation, 1899-1951 / / Martha Elizabeth Walls
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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , [2010] |
| ©2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 electronic text (xii, 198 p.) : ill., map, ports., digital file |
| Disciplina: | 342.71/070872 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mi'kmaq peoples - Legal status, laws, etc |
| Mi'kmaq peoples - Politics and government | |
| Mi'kmaq peoples - Government relations | |
| Election law - Canada | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1 The Mi'kmaw World in 1900 -- 2 Continuity and Change in Mi'kmaw Politics to 1899 -- 3 The Origins of the Triennial Band Council System -- 4 Federal Interference and Political Persistence in Mi'kmaw Communities -- 5 The Limits of Triennial Elections -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 1899 the Canadian government passed legislation to replace the appointment of Mi'kmaw leaders and Mi'kmaw political practices with the triennial system, a Euro-Canadian system of democratic band council elections. Officials in Ottawa assumed the federally mandated and supervised system would redefine Mi'kmaw politics. They were wrong. Drawing on reports and correspondence of the Department of Indian Affairs, Martha Walls details the rich life of Mi'kmaw politics between 1899 and 1951. She shows that many Mi'kmaw communities rejected, ignored, or amended federal electoral legislation, while others accepted it only sporadically, not in acquiescence to Ottawa's assimilative project but to meet specific community needs and goals. Compelling and timely, this book supports Aboriginal claims to self-governance and complicates understandings of state power by showing that the Mi'kmaw, rather than succumbing to imposed political models, retained political practices that distinguished them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | No need of a chief for this band |
| ISBN: | 1-280-77786-9 |
| 9786613688255 | |
| 0-7748-1791-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779358403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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