Landing Native fisheries : Indian reserves and fishing rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

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    • Harris, Douglas C. (Douglas Colebrook)

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Landing Native fisheries : Indian reserves and fishing rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

Douglas C. Harris

(Law and society series)

UBC Press, c2008

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections between the colonial land policy and the law governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of colonial dispossession in British Columbia, offering a new and nuanced examination of the role of law in the consolidation of power within the colonial state.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Treaties, Reserves, and Fisheries Law 2 Land Follows Fish 3 Exclusive Fisheries 4 Exclusive Fisheries and the Public Right to Fish 5 Indian Reserves and Fisheries 6 Constructing an Indian Food Fishery 7 Licensing the Commercial Salmon Fishery 8 Land and Fisheries Detached Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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