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 … the colonial land policy and the law governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of colonial …

The Aboriginal peoples of Canada stand in a different legal relationship to the fisheries than non-Aboriginal Canadians …. They do so by virtue of a long history with the fisheries that precedes non-Aboriginal settlement in North America, and …

those of Native peoples, defined and in part created both Native and state fisheries. When those fisheries clashed, one …, this is a study of law and colonialism, seen through a close analysis of the conflict over fish. Native fisheries and the … others. The Canadian state denied the legitimacy and even the existence of Native fisheries law in imposing its law on the …