"A Liberal and Paternal Spirit": Indian Agents and Native Fisheries in Canada
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dorothee Schreiber
Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 87-118
Description
Analyzes Indian Agents' responses in 1897 about administrative decisions and confrontations about fishing places, gear, licences and "closed-season" fishing by First Nations; argues Agents conserved fish for settlers and assimilated First Nation fishers into state management practices and extending so-called privileges.