Community Signature Clans

Community Signature Clans of Anishinabek and Onkwehonweh ca 1721

According to Aln8bak (Abenaki Nation) tradition, in each community are three Clans. In addition, each community also has a signature Clan. Following are the signature Clans of nineteen Anishinabek (Algonquin language speaking peoples) and Onkwehonweh (Iroquois language speaking peoples) communities from a 1721 document signed by a spokesperson for each community from Mikmaki to Oka Kanehsatake, northeast of Great Turtle Island (North America).




Kisikewi'skw
28 Sep 2010

Note

One inherits one's Nation and one's Clan from one's mothers, this is traditional to many sovereign Indigenous peoples of Great Turtle Island. Also when a community moved or was forcibly displaced from their traditional territory, their Clans, which are inseparable from the Indigenous peoples themselves, moved with them.

Community Clan signatures retrieved from Abbe Museum "Resistance: Making War and Negotiating Peace"

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