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"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

Indians of North America --- Salmon fisheries --- Indigenous peoples --- Customary law --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law - Canada --- Fishing --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Law and legislation. --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Fisheries --- Fishery law and legislation --- Colombie-Britannique (Province) --- British Columbia. --- BC --- Britaniya Kolumbiyası --- Britanska Kolumbii͡ --- Britanska Kolumbija --- Briti Columbia --- Britisch-Kolumbien --- British Columbia --- British Columbia (Colony) --- Britisk Columbia --- Brits-Kolombi --- Britská Kolumbie --- Brytanskai͡a Kalumbii͡ --- C.-B. (Province) --- Colombie-Britannique --- Colony of British Columbia --- Colúmbia Britànica --- Province of British Columbia --- United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia --- Vretanikē Kolomvia