Aboriginal resource use in Canada : historical and legal aspects /
edited by Kerry Abel and Jean Friesen.
- Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, (c)1991.
- 1 online resource (vii, 343 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Manitoba studies in native history, 6 .
Includes bibliographical references.
"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 modern 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 / Olive Patricia Dickason -- Brian J. Smith -- John Milloy -- D. Wayne Moodie -- Irene M. Spry -- Eleanor M. Blain -- Laura L. Peers -- Tim E. Holzkamm, Victor P. Lytwyn, Leo G. Waisberg. 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 / Jean Friesen -- David T. McNab -- Ken Coates -- Peter Clancy -- Nigel D. Bankes -- S. Barry Cottam -- Anthony J. Hall -- Rick Riewe. 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 / Arthur J. Ray -- Barry Barton.
This collection of 18 articles focus on aboriginal rights to the use of natural resources in Canada, including wildlife, furs, plants and their medicinal and food uses, water rights, general land use and timber. Includes case studies from the Yukon and Northwest Territories.
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