{"id":899,"date":"2019-10-28T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmaakonigan.ca\/website_681dad08\/?page_id=899"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:16:24","slug":"the-pictograph","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmaakonigan.ca\/website_681dad08\/anishinaabe-governance\/the-pictograph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pictograph & the Ngo Dwe Waangizid Anishinaabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MOVING FORWARD TO ANISHINAABE TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The purple pictograph (left) illustrates Ngo Dwe Waangizid Anishinaabe<\/strong>, One Anishinaabe Family<\/strong>. Ngo Dwe Waangizid Anishinaabe is the Preamble of the Anishinaabe Chi-Naaknigewin, the Guiding Principles<\/strong> (right).<\/p>\n

There are five symbols on a circular field of purple. Purple is the colour associated with the Gift of Respect, the Ajijaak<\/strong> (Crane) Clan whose responsibility is external governance.<\/p>\n

The colour purple<\/strong> is significant as it is the colour of wampum used in the Gchi-Miigisaabiigan <\/strong>(Great Wampum Belt).<\/p>\n

Gchi-Miigisaabiigan documents the Treaty of Niagara, July 1764<\/strong> , where 2,500 leaders and headmen, representing 24 Great Lakes Nations, and the British Crown, represented by Sir William Johnson, Superintendant of Indian Affairs, entered a formal, nation to nation agreement of peace and friendship. Constitutional scholars, cite the Treaty of Niagara, 1764, as the first constitutional instrument of what would become Canada.<\/p>\n

The symbols illustrate the tenets contained in Ngo Dwe Waangizid Anishinaabe:<\/p>\n