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- Title
Composer avec un système imposé. La tradition et le conseil de bande à Manawan.
- Authors
Morissette, Anny
- Abstract
The topic of this article is Native local politics. It aims to establish the long term social implications of the Band council on the traditional band. It focuses on the Atikamekw community of Manawan in Quebec. The author argues the existence of a political "art de faire" which gives the Natives an opportunity to re-appropriate the local level formal political system. Despite the new Atikamekw political ways and the formal apparatus, is there any continuity of the traditional band and the activities of the chief? The bureaucratization of every aspect of Native lives has called for new expertise within new settings. Traditional authority figures still exist in Manawan. They attempt, using such perspectives, to guide the Atikamekw within the institutionalized reserve system and to deal with their territorial claims vis-a-vis the two levels of government that dominate daily life.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); CANADA; NATIVE American tribal governments; NATIVE American history; MULTIRACIAL Aboriginal Canadians; FIRST Nations politics &; government
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 2/3, p127
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1081646ar