Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada : Historical and Legal Aspects / edited by Kerry Abel and Jean Friesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abel, Kerry M. (Kerry Margaret)

Friesen, Jean, 1943-

Series:

Manitoba studies in native history ; 6

Manitoba studies in native history, 0826-9416 ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Claims.

Natural resources--Government policy--Canada.

Natural resources.

Physical Description:

vii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg [Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses a wide range of topics related to Aboriginal resource use, ranging from the pre-contact period to the present. The papers were originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at the University of Winnipeg. Co-editor Kerry Abel has written an introduction that outlines the main themes of the book. She points out that it is difficult to know what the enshrinement of Aboriginal rights in the Canadian Constitution means without knowing exactly what constituted the Aboriginal interest in the land past and present. She also summarizes some of the developments in the rapidly evolving concept of Aboriginal rights.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

"For Every Plant There is a Use": The Botanical World of Mexica and Iroquoians

The Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the use of Fish as an Alternate Subsistence Resource among Northern Plains Bison Hunters

"Our Country": The Significance of the Buffalo Resource for a Plains Cree Sense of Territory

Manomin: Historical-Geographical Perspectives on the Ojibwa Production of Wild Rice

Aboriginal Resource Use in the Nineteenth Century in the Great Plains of Modem Canada

Dependency: Charles Bishop and the Northern Ojibwa

Changing Resource-Use Patterns of Saulteaux Trading at Fort Pelly, 1821 to 1870

Rainy River Sturgeon: An Ojibway Resource in the Fur Trade Economy

Grant Me Wherewith to Make My Living

''Principally Rocks and Burnt Lands'': Crown Reserves and the Tragedy of the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Northwestern Ontario

The Sinews of Their Lives: Native Access to Resources in the Yukon, 1890 to 1950

State Policy and the Native Trapper: Post-War Policy toward Fur in the Northwest Territories

The Board of Investigation and the Water Rights of Indian Reserves in British Columbia, 1909 to 1926

Indian Title as a "Celestial Institution": David Mills and the St. Catherine's Milling Case

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

Inuit Land Use Studies and the Native Claims Process

Fur Trade History and the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en Comprehensive Claim: Men of Property and the Exercise of Title

Defending World Markets for Fur: Aboriginal Trapping, the Anti-Harvest Movement and International Trade Law

Contributors

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613090607

9781283090605

1283090600

9780887553097

0887553095