The Marshall decision and native rights

Coates, Kenneth 1956- (Author).

Summary: This book describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999, and the author explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the recent Supreme Court decision in the Donald Marshall case.

Record details

ISBN: 0773521089
ISBN: 9780773521087
ISBN: 0773521046
ISBN: 9780773521049
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Of Eels, Judges, and lobsters: the Marshall challenge and the Supreme Court decision -- Paying the price for history: Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Colonists from treaties to irrelevance -- Mi'kmaq and Maliseet frustrations: social crises and government responses -- prelude to marshall: aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada -- Thomas Peter Paul and the Mi'kmaq logging dispute --The Marshall crisis and East Coast confrontations -- Postlude to Marshall: Joshua Bernard, Lobster licences, and the refinement of Mi'kmaq rights -- What does it mean? The Marshall decision, East coast fisheries, and aboriginal rights -- Appendices. A. Maritime First Nations communities: population -- B. Lobster quotas and Mikmaq fishing rights -- C. Rex v. Syliboy, Nova Scotia County Court, 10 September 1928 -- D. Regina v. Donald Marshall Jr., Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, 26 March 1997 -- Regina v. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench, 28 October 1997 -- F. Regina V. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Appeal, 22 April 1998 -- G. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada, 17 September 1999 -- H. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada Motion for rehearing and stay, 17 November 1999.
Language Note:	English.