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Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia / / Douglas C. Harris



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Autore: Harris Douglas C (Douglas Colebrook) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fish, law, and colonialism : the legal capture of salmon in British Columbia / / Douglas C. Harris Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001
©2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 306 p. ) : ill. ;
Disciplina: 343.73076
Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Fishing - Law and legislation
Indians of North America - Fishing - Law and legislation - British Columbia - History
Salmon fisheries - Law and legislation - British Columbia - History
Soggetto geografico: Colombie-Britannique (Province)
British Columbia
Soggetto genere / forma: History
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Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Legal Capture -- Native Fisheries -- The Common Law of Fisheries -- Treaty Rights -- The Fisheries Act, 1877 -- Salmon Fisheries Regulations, 1878 -- Master and Servant Law in the Fisheries, 1877 -- Increasing Surveillance, 1878-1887 -- Native Fisheries Law -- Fishery Regulations, 1888 -- Fishery Regulations, 1894 -- Conclusion -- 2 Fish Weirs and Legal Cultures on Babine Lake, 1904-1907 -- Babine Lake and Its People -- A Permanent White Presence -- Departments of the Dominion -- Barricade Conflict, 1904 -- Old Cannery Nets, 1905 -- Barricade Conflict, 1906 -- Surrender and Trial -- Ottawa Meetings -- Implementing the Agreement -- Conclusion -- 3 The Law Runs Through It: Weirs, Logs, Nets, and Fly Fishing on the Cowichan River, 1877-1937 -- The Cowichan River and Its People -- Land, Logs, Weirs, and a Settler Society -- Protests, Prosecutions, and the Sport Fishery -- Cannery Boats and Tourism -- Royal Commissions -- Reverse Onus, Prosecutions, Nets, and Weirs -- Conclusion -- 4 Law and Colonialism -- Law and Colonialism, and British Columbia -- Anglo-Canadian Law and the British Columbia Fishery -- Native Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Sommario/riassunto: "Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal people of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and on law and colonialism, he examines the controversial nature of the colonial encounter at the local level. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and among government departments, local setter societies, and Aboriginal communities." "Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers, and secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a timely legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia."--Jacket
Titolo autorizzato: Fish, law, and colonialism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8020-8453-2
1-282-01476-5
9786612014765
1-4426-7491-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780580203321
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