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an animal is used to represent a person's clan or dodem but plants and other spirit beings are sometimes used as well. The word dodem means . There are different teachings about how many clans there are and which are clans in leadership positions. This is due to the decentralized mode of governance that the Anishinaabe practice. Each person is a self-determining authority, and it is their duty to uphold their own roles and responsibilities for the wellbeing of all our relations. This is understood as the "Law of Non-interference".

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