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Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves And Fishing Rights In British Columbia, 1849-1925, Douglas C. Harris
Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves And Fishing Rights In British Columbia, 1849-1925, Douglas C. Harris
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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. This …
The Boldt Decision In Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights To Fish On The Pacific, Douglas C. Harris
The Boldt Decision In Canada: Aboriginal Treaty Rights To Fish On The Pacific, Douglas C. Harris
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The Oregon Boundary Treaty of 1846 established the forty-ninth parallel as the boundary between British and American interests in western North America. After 1846, Aboriginal peoples to the north of the border negotiated with the British Crown the terms of their coexistence with incoming settlers, those to its south with the United States. As a result, while some of the Coast Salish and Kwak’waka’wakw peoples in what would become British Columbia concluded treaties between 1850 and 1854 with the Crown’s representative, James Douglas, the tribes in the United States settled with the governor of the Washington territory, Isaac I. Stevens, …