Awards

• Commended for Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Federation 2009 (Canada)
• Commended for Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Federation 2009 (Canada)
• Winner of John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History 2011 (Canada)

Overview

Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between 1850 and 1854, Douglas Harris maps the connections between the colonial land policy and the law governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of colonial dispossession in British Columbia, offering a new and nuanced examination of the role of law in the consolidation of power within the colonial state.

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9780774814201

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In this important and original book, Douglas Harris demonstrates the vital connection between fisheries and reserve creation in British Columbia. In addition to providing fresh historical insights, this work has significant implications for contemporary Aboriginal land and fishing rights. - Kent McNeil, author of Common Law Aboriginal Title

In this thorough and well-documented account, Harris demonstrates the importance of historical factors to the social and political geography of British Columbia. -- Stephen Bocking, Trent University The Canadian Geographer, 55, no 2 (2011)

Author Information

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.

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