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Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia

Harris, Douglas C.

Paperback

Canadian HistoryNative American HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0802084532
ISBN13: 9780802084538
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 29 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

An engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law.

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 peoples of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and law and colonialism, he examines the contested nature of the colonial encounter on the scale of a river. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and between government departments, local settler societies, and Aboriginal communities.

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