Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty by Aimée Craft

Author:Aimée Craft [Craft, Aimée]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-895830-66-8
Publisher: Purich Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

PART 3

ANISHINABE INAAKONIGEWIN

CHAPTER FIVE

Gizhagiiwin: The Queen’s Obligations of Love, Caring, Kindness, and Equality among her Children

Both the Crown and the Anishinabe relied heavily on the Queen acting as a mother to the Anishinabe and treating all her children equally. While the Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor used the term mother more as a matter of form, knowing that the Anishinabe viewed their relationships in terms of kinship, the Anishinabe invoked the relationship to express its deeper implications and normative expectations, including long-term and inviolable commitments to preserving the welfare of their children. Drawing on the relationship of the Anishinabe with their primary mother figure, Nimaamaa Aki, Mother Earth, the Anishinabe chiefs and spokesmen illustrated the special bond and obligations of kindness, caring, and unconditional love, and of the earth’s bounty, which ensured that the mother would care for the Anishinabe’s needs.

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