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

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Landing Native fisheries : Indian reserves and fishing rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 / Douglas C. Harris.

Harris, Douglas C. (Douglas Colebrook) (Author).

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774814195
ISBN: 0774814195
ISBN: 9780774814201
ISBN: 0774814209
Physical Description: xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Treaties, reserves, and fisheries law -- Land follows fish -- Exclusive fisheries -- Exclusive fisheries and the public right to fish -- Indian reserves and fisheries -- Constructing an Indian food fishery -- Licensing the commercial salmon fishery -- Land and fisheries detached.