Our Box Was Full
Subtitle: An Ethnography For The Delgamuukw Plaintiffs
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780774810746
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Constitutional & administrative law; Indigenous peoples; Social Science; Sociology; British Columbia; Ethnic Studies - General
Description: "For the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997"--Jacket.