How deep are our treaties: Faced with the commodification of food and livelihoods in the fishery of Canada’s Bear River First Nation, a Mi’kmaq community displays remarkable resilience

Pictou, Sherry (2009) How deep are our treaties: Faced with the commodification of food and livelihoods in the fishery of Canada’s Bear River First Nation, a Mi’kmaq community displays remarkable resilience. Samudra Report (54). pp. 8-9. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

Until recently, the only mechanism to deal with ancestral land appropriation and displacement of indigenous peoples in Canada was the cumbersome Comprehensive Land Claims Process. The Supreme Court of Canada decision, known as the 'Marshall case', based on the Mi’kmaq treaties of 1760 and 1761, extended those claims to the waters, and initiated a treaty negotiation process for the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq. In the interim, however, the Government of Canada implemented 'commercial' fishing agreements, styled as 'MacKenzie agreements', after James MacKenzie, the negotiator for the federal government.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0713
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Canada, Inland Fisheries, Indigenous Communities, Fishing Rights, Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ)
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2021 08:04
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2022 09:12
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1468

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