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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Reveals the contradictions and the consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers. Presenting first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854! this book maps the connections between colonial land policy and fisheries law and policy.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas C. Harris
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2008
• EAN: 9780774814195
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1419-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Law and Society; Law and Society (Hardcover); Law and Society
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics