Landing Native fisheries
Subtitle: Indian reserves and fishing rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
By: Douglas C. Harris.
Series: Law and society; Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780774814195
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Law and legislation -- British Columbia -- History; Fishery law and legislation -- British Columbia -- History; Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- British Columbia -- History; Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- British Columbia -- History; Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations; Indiens d'Amérique -- Pêche -- Droit -- Colombie-Britannique -- Histoire; Pêches -- Droit -- Colombie-Britannique -- Histoire; Indiens d'Amérique -- Droit -- Colombie-Britannique -- Histoire; Indiens d'Amérique -- Terres -- Colombie-Britannique -- Histoire; Indiens d'Amérique -- Canada -- Relations avec l'État
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index.