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Fish, Law, and Colonialism – The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
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Fish, Law, and Colonialism – The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia Paperback - 2002

by Douglas C. Harris

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Univ of Toronto Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 272 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.
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  • Title Fish, Law, and Colonialism – The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia
  • Author Douglas C. Harris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Toronto Pr, Toronto
  • Date 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0802084532
  • ISBN 9780802084538 / 0802084532
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.71 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: British Columbia
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Fishing - Law and, Salmon fisheries - Law and legislation -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002279295
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971

From the publisher

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.

Drawing on government records, statute books, case reports, newspapers, missionary papers and a secondary anthropological literature to explore the roots of the continuing conflict over the salmon fishery, Harris has produced a superb, and timely, legal and historical study of law as contested terrain in the legal capture of Aboriginal salmon fisheries in British Columbia.

About the author

Douglas C. Harris is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.