Fisheries regulations, implemented in the 1880s, banned the sale of Indian 'food
fish' and resulted in the creation of the categories of "food fishing" and "commercial
fishing." While simultaneously accepting and rejecting that place in the margins of this
fractured fishery, Stó:lō people have consistently maintained that their Aboriginal right
to fish cannot be cast in these false categories that separate the economic and social
components of their way of life.
Stó:lō fishers have been fighting for their Aboriginal right to fish since the their
first encounters with the Xwelitem. This thesis addresses that struggle within a context
of accommodation and resistance. In this historically situated ethnography, I offer an
examination of a problem, not a people. By selecting three distinct responses to
fisheries regulation on the part of peoples identifying themselves as Stó:lō, I reveal a
link between the histories of the individual Stó:lō communities and their specific
responses to regulation, demonstrating that connected to those histories are as many
different Stó:lō fisheries as there are species of salmon.
The responses examined in this thesis are, in the words of the Stó:lō
themselves, rooted in tradition; tradition having become the short answer to questions
regarding the Stó:lō and their Aboriginal right to fish. As a part of my examination, I
seek to uncover the long answer; more specifically how tradition has come to support
these separate and distinct responses to over a century of interference into their way of
life. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/17278 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Brown, Kimberly Linkous |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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