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1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and index. |
| Summary |
"Fishing rights are one of the major areas of dispute for aboriginals in Canada today. Dianne Newell explores this controversial issue and looks at the ways government regulatory policy and the law have affected Indian participation in the Pacific Coast fisheries." "For centuries, the economies of Pacific Coast Indians were based on their fisheries. Marine resources, mainly salmon, were used for barter, trade, ceremony, and personal consumption. This pattern persisted after the arrival of European and Asian immigrants, even during the first phases of the non-Indian commercial fishing industry when Indian families were depended upon for their labour and expertise. But as the industrial fishery grew, changes in labour supply, markets, and technology rendered Pacific Coast Indians less central to the enterprise and the aboriginal fishery became legally defined as food fishing. By the late 1960s, rigid new licence-limitation policies were introduced and regulations transformed the processing sector." "The result was reduced participation for fishers and shoreworkers, and the opportunities for Indian men and women declined dramatically. Government programs to increase or even stabilize Indian participation ultimately failed. Newell concludes that the governments of Canada and British Columbia have historically regarded the aboriginal fishery narrowly and unjustly as a privilege, not a right, and have in fact moved against any changes that might put Indians into competition with non-Indians. Recently, BC Indians won a Supreme Court victory in Regina v. Sparrow (1990) that will make it easier to change federal fisheries policies, but aboriginal fishing rights remain before the courts and under federal government investigation."--Jacket. |
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| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""ONE: Introduction: The Politics of Resource Regulation""; ""TWO: The Aboriginal Salmon Fishery and Its Management""; ""THREE: Indian Fishery Invented, 1871�1888""; ""FOUR: Indian Labour Captured, 1889�1918""; ""FIVE: Battling a Revolving Door, 1919�1945""; ""SIX: Cast Adrift, 1946�1968""; ""SEVEN: Rights Reconsidered: From the Davis Plan to Sparrow, 1969�1993""; ""EIGHT: Vanishing Alternatives: Halibut and Herring""; ""NINE: Conclusion: Indians versus Conservation?""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Law and legislation -- British Columbia.
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Indians of North America -- Fishing -- Law and legislation. |
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British Columbia. |
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Salmon fisheries -- Law and legislation -- British Columbia.
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Salmon fisheries -- Law and legislation. |
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Fishery law and legislation -- British Columbia -- History.
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Fishery law and legislation. |
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History. |
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Fishing Law |
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British Columbia |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newell, Dianne. Tangled webs of history. Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1993 (DLC) 94147800 |
| ISBN |
9781442680357 (electronic book) |
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1442680350 (electronic book) |
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128199720X |
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9781281997203 |
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0802005470 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0802077463 (paper) |
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9780802077462 |
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9780802005472 |
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