Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada: Historical and Legal Aspects (Critical Studies in Native History)

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. 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. 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. Edited By Kerry Abel And Jean Friesen. Selection Of Papers Presented At A Conference Held At St. John's College, University Of Manitoba, January 1988. Includes Bibliographical References. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: "Plenty of Fish and Fruits" "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 Part 2: Fur Trade Economics and Resource Use 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 Part 3: Governments and Resource Access 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 Part 4: The St. Catherine's Case 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 Part 5: Courts and Claims 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