Landing Native Fisheries

Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

By Douglas C. Harris
Categories: History, Indigenous History, Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society, Business, Economics & Industry, Agriculture & Food Production, Legal History, Canadian History, Environmental Law, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Law, Environmental & Nature Studies, Animal Studies
Series: Law and Society
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774814195, 280 pages, May 2008
Paperback : 9780774814201, 280 pages, January 2009
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852807, 268 pages, August 2014
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774856102, 280 pages, January 2009
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774858373, 280 pages, January 2009
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Table of contents

Introduction

1 Treaties, Reserves, and Fisheries Law

2 Land Follows Fish

3 Exclusive Fisheries

4 Exclusive Fisheries and the Public Right to Fish

5 Indian Reserves and Fisheries

6 Constructing an Indian Food Fishery

7 Licensing the Commercial Salmon Fishery

8 Land and Fisheries Detached

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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.