Fishing in Contested Waters : : Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj / / Sarah King.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: King, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 maps

After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, people were shot at and beaten, boats rammed and sunk, roads barricaded, and the local wharf occupied.Based on 12 months of ethnographic field work in Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, Fishing in Contested Waters explores the origins of this dispute and the beliefs and experiences that motivated the locals involved in it. Weaving the perspectives of Native and non-Native people together, Sarah J. King examines the community as a contested place, simultaneously Mi’kmaw and Canadian. Drawing on philosophy and indigenous, environmental, and religious studies, Fishing in Contested Waters demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Re-membering Burnt Church -- 2 “Those Relationships Became Countries” -- 3 Contested Place -- 4 Seeking Justice: Rights and Religion in the Dispute -- 5 Conservation Talk: Negotiating Power and Place -- 6 The Canadian Way -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index