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poliTics & naTion no need of a chief for this band Maritime Mi’kmaq and Federal Electoral Legislation, 1899–1951 martha elizabeth walls marTHa elizabeTH walls teaches Canadian, Atlantic Canadian, and First Nations history. May 2010 978-0-7748-1789-9 Hc $85.00 January 2011 978-0-7748-1790-5 pb $29.95 216 pages, 6 x 9" 9 b&w photos, 16 tables, 1 map Aboriginal History Aboriginal Politics & Policy Atlantic History Political Science This important, compelling study reveals the creativity and persistence of the Mi'kmaq in responding to the federal assimilation campaign. By demonstrating the flexibility with which the Mi'kmaq resisted, accommodated, and adapted the triennial elective band council system, Walls contributes significantly to a more nuanced understanding of Mi'kmaw cultural change, political engagement, and interaction with government. –Robin Jarvis Brownlie, author of A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 In 1899 the Canadian government passed legislation to replace the community 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 that the federally mandated and supervised system would redefine Mi’kmaw politics. They were wrong. Many Mi’kmaw communities rejected or amended the legislation, while others accepted it only sporadically 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’kmaq, rather than succumbing to imposed political models, retained political practices that distinguished them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours. conTenTs Introduction 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 Notes; Bibliography; Index 10 Aboriginal Studies 2010 order online: www.ubcpress.ca
poliTics & naTion poliTics & naTion nunavut Rethinking Political Culture ailsa Henderson order online: www.ubcpress.ca Shortlisted for the 2008 donald smiley book prize, Canadian Political Science Association Political culture in Nunavut has long been characterized by different approaches to political life: traditional Inuit attitudes toward governance, federal aspirations for the political integration of Inuit, and territorial strategies for institutional development. Ailsa Henderson links these features to contemporary political attitudes and behaviour, concluding that a distinctive political culture is emerging in Nunavut. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and quantitative analysis, this book provides the first systematic, empirical study of political life in Nunavut, offering comprehensive analysis of the evolving nature of aboriginal self-government in the Arctic and shedding crucial light on Inuit–non-Inuit relations. ailsa Henderson is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. 2007, 978-0-7748-1424-9 pb $30.95 272 pages, 6 x 9" 29 b&w figures and tables Northern Studies Nunavut Political Science Hunters and bureaucrats Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal- State Relations in the Southwest Yukon paul nadasdy Winner, 2004 Julian steward prize, American Anthropological Association This book challenges the conventional wisdom that land claims and co-management – two of the most visible and celebrated elements of the restructuring of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state – will help reverse centuries of inequity. Based on three years of ethnographic research in the Yukon, this book examines the complex relationship between the people of Kluane First Nation, the land and animals, and the state. This book moves beyond conventional models of colonialism, in which the state is treated as a monolithic entity, and instead explores how “state power” is reproduced through everyday bureaucratic practices – including struggles over the production and use of knowledge. paul nadasdy is an associate professor of anthropology at Cornell University. 2003, 978-0-7748-0984-9 pb $34.95 328 pages, 6 x 9" 23 b&w photographs, 5 tables, 3 maps Aboriginal History Aboriginal Politics & Policy Northern Studies Aboriginal Studies 2010 11
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