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published: May 2008
ISBN:9780774814195
publisher: UBC Press

Landing Native Fisheries

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

by Douglas C. Harris

tagged: indigenous peoples, post-confederation (1867-), fish, natural resources, legal history, native american, fisheries & aquaculture, pre-confederation (to 1867)
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.

About the Author

Douglas C. Harris

Contributor Notes

Douglas C. Harris is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia and the author of Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia.

Awards
  • Winner, John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History
  • Commended, Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Federation
Editorial Review

In this thorough and well-documented account, Harris demonstrates the importance of historical factors to the social and political geography of British Columbia.

— The Canadian Geographer, 55, no 2 (2011)
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