Aboriginal resource use in Canada : historical and legal aspects

Book 1991

"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 Aborig...

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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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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

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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

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92169006

Control Number:

39662

Other Authors:

Abel, Kerry M. (Kerry Margaret)
Friesen, Jean, 1943-

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