Aboriginal resource use in Canada : historical and legal aspects
1991
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"Aboriginal rights are the subject of significant public concern in Canada. In this collection of 18 articles, the contributors focus on Aboriginal rights to the use of resources. They examine the nature and extent of resource use by Aboriginal peoples before contact with Europeans, and the persistence of indigenous economic systems during periods of intense interaction with Europeans. The fur trade changed some of the economic activity of Aboriginal peoples, but other patterns have survived." "The effect of Canadian government policy and the legal system on these indigenous economies is a major theme of the book. The St. Catherine's Milling and Lumber case is examined in detail because of its effect on subsequent legal findings on the concept of Aboriginal land title. More recent cases, such as those affecting Native water rights in British Columbia and the Git'ksan-Wet'suet'en claim, are also discussed. The problem of interpreting historical and legal evidence is examined in detail." "As Canada's Aboriginal peoples move towards self-determination, the nature of Aboriginal rights has become a subject of major importance to all Canadians. This volume, drawing on the perspectives of history, law, political science, ethnohistory, archaeology and cultural geography, will help us to understand some of the most important issues facing Canadians in the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780887551505
- 0887551505
Description: vii, 343 pages 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
- "For every plant there is a use" : the botanical world of Mexica and Iroquoians / Olive Patricia Dickason
- The historical and archaeological evidence for the use of fish as an alternate subsistence resource among Northern Plains bison hunters / Brian J. Smith
- "Our country" : the significance of the buffalo resource for a Plains Cree sense of territory / John Milloy
- Manomin : historical-geographical perspectives on the Ojibwa production of wild rice / D. Wayne Moodie
- Aboriginal resource use in the nineteenth century in the Great Plains of modern Canada / Irene M. Spry
- Dependency : Charles Bishop and the Northern Ojibwa / Eleanor M. Blain
- Changing resource-use patterns of Saulteaux trading at Fort Pelly, 1821 to 1870 / Laura L. Peers
- Rainy River sturgeon : an Ojibway resource in the fur trade economy / Tim E. Holzkamm, Victor P. Lytwyn, Leo G. Waisberg.
- Grant me wherewith to make my living / Jean Friesen
- "Principally rocks and burnt lands" : Crown reserves and the tragedy of the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario / David T. McNab
- The sinews of their lives : Native access to resources in the Yukon, 1890 to 1950 / Ken Coates
- State policy and the Native trapper : post-war policy toward fur in the Northwest Territories / Peter Clancy
- The Board of Investigation and the water rights of Indian reserves in British Columbia, 1909 to 1926 / Nigel D. Bankes
- Indian title as a "celestial institution" : David Mills and the St. Catherine's Milling case / S. Barry Cottam
- The St. Catherine's Milling and Lumber Company versus the Queen : Indian land rights as a factor in federal-provincial relations in nineteenth-century Canada / Anthony J. Hall
- Inuit land use studies and the Native claims process / Rick Riewe.
- Fur trade history and the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en comprehensive claim : men of property and the exercise of title / Arthur J. Ray
- Defending world markets for fur : aboriginal trapping, the anti-harvest movement and international trade law / Barry Barton.
LCCN: 92169006
Control Number: 39662
Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [1991]Series:
- Manitoba studies in native history, ISSN: 0826-9416
- Manitoba studies in native history, ISSN: 0826-9416 ; 6
- Manitoba studies in native history. ISSN: 0826-9416
- Manitoba studies in native history. ISSN: 0826-9416 ; 6.
Subjects:
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada -- Economic conditions.
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- Canada.
- Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
- Natural resources -- Government policy -- Canada.
- Subsistence economy -- Canada -- History.
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