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'Building the great lucrative fishing industry': aboriginal gillnet fishers and protests over salmon fishery regulations for the Nass and Skeena Rivers, 1950s-1960s.
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Labour/Le Travail
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March 22, 2008
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- Wright, Miriam
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IN THE 1950S AND 1960S, Aboriginal gillnet fishers protested new state salmon regulations restricting access to the industrial fishery of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia. Using cannery records, as well as letters, petitions, and statements native people made to the Department of Fisheries, this article examines both the protests and the impact of the regulations that the state introduced in a time of massive structural, economic, technological, and ecological change in the northern fishery. The native fishers' letters suggest that both their Aboriginal heritage and work-centered, class-based identities were shaping their opposition to the state. Those ...
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