Shingwaukonse

Information derived from an ethnohistorical analysis of Shingwaukonse's leadership career is used to assess a prevailing ethnographic contention that self-interested action characterized leadership among the Ojibwa by the mid-nineteenth century. It is argued that while the above position may be appropriate with regard to southwestern Ojibwa groups defiantly resisting white western expansionism, leaders in the northeastern sector of the Upper Great Lakes were seeking creative ways in which to assist bands in preserving the spirit of reciprocity traditionally characterizing relations between leader and group. Recent anthropological studies have demonstrated that the Ojibwa view of power relationships differs substantially from western conceptions of competitive self-interest, a finding that provides a convenient point of departure for a historical investigation not only of Shingwaukonse's career but also of certain important political, social, and economic developments that arose as a legacy of this chief's ideas and actions

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  Open Access•Olivier Servais•Social Compass•2005

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