Verify Citation - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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“One of the… symbols that carried forward some of the central theories of that geopolitical hope was the image of a bowl with one spoon… It began to appear with particular regularity in the design of many Indian wampum belts in the years when the Indian Confederacy achieved its most formidable scope, especially through the articulated insights and organizational activities of Tecumseh. These shell-beaded wampums were often adorned with pictographic representations depicting the main contractual features of treaties that Indian groups made with one another and sometimes with non-Indian diplomats as well. The bowl with one spoon was a representation of the principle that certain hunting territories were to be shared in common. This concept of shared hunting territory became central to the sovereign strategy of the Indian Confederacy. The symbol conveyed the idea that, because territory was shared by different Indian groups, no one group could cede or sell land without the consent of the entire council of federated Indian nations. The object was to block the northwesterly expansion of the United States in the decades following the American Revolution and to obtain international recognition for the fixed borders and the sovereign geopolitical imperatives of the Indian Confederacy.”[1]
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- ↑ Anthony J. Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon (McGill, Montreal: 2003), p. 78.
