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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.
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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.
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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.
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342.71070872 W215n
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