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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Walls, Martha, 1972-     Subjects     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Legal status, laws, etc.     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Politics and government.     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Government relations.     Election law -- Canada.     First Nations -- Government relations -- 1860-1951.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Walls, Martha, 1972-       by title:      No need of a chief f...       by call number:      342.71070872 W215n     Search the Web     Walls, Martha, 1972-     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Legal status, laws, etc.     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Politics and government.     Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Government relations.     Election law -- Canada.     First Nations -- Government relations -- 1860-1951.       MARC Display

No need of a chief for this band : the Maritime Mi'kmaq and federal electoral legislation, 1899-1951 / Martha E. Walls. by Walls, Martha, 1972- UBC Press, 2010. Call #: 342.71070872 W215n Subjects Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Legal status, laws, etc.   Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Politics and government.   Mi'kmaq First Nation -- Government relations.   Election law -- Canada.   First Nations -- Government relations -- 1860-1951. ISBN:  9780774817899 9780774817905 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Maritime Mi'kmaq and federal electoral legislation Maritime Mikmaq and federal electoral legislation Description:  xii, 198 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  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 Summary:  "In 1899, the Canadian government implemented a policy to replace Mi'kmaw leader selection and other 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. Those communities that did accept triennial elections did so sporadically -- not in acquiescence to Ottawa's assimilative project, but to meet specific community needs and goals. This compelling and nuanced study complicates understandings of state power by showing that the Mi'kmaw did not succumb to imposed political models but rather retained political practices that distinguished them from their Euro-Canadian neighbours."--pub. desc. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 342.71070872 W215n Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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