The Marshall decision and Native rights

Coates, Kenneth 1956- (author.).

Summary: Explains the cross-cultural, legal, and political implications of the Supreme Court decision on the Donald Marshall case. This work describes the events, personalities, and conflicts that brought the Maritimes to the brink of a major confrontation between Mi'kmaq and the non-Mi'kmaq fishers in the fall of 1999.

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ISBN: 0773521046 (bound) :
ISBN: 0773521089 (pbk.):
ISBN: 9780773521049 (bound) :
ISBN: 9780773521087 (pbk.):
Physical Description: xxiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
Copyright: ©2000

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Of Eels, Judges, and lobsters: the Marshall challenge and the Supreme Court decision -- Paying the price for history: Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Colonists from treaties to irrelevance -- Mi'kmaq and Maliseet frustrations: social crises and government responses -- prelude to marshall: aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada -- Thomas Peter Paul and the Mi'kmaq logging dispute --The Marshall crisis and East Coast confrontations -- Postlude to Marshall: Joshua Bernard, Lobster licences, and the refinement of Mi'kmaq rights -- What does it mean? The Marshall decision, East coast fisheries, and aboriginal rights -- Appendices. A. Maritime First Nations communities: population -- B. Lobster quotas and Mikmaq fishing rights -- C. Rex v. Syliboy, Nova Scotia County Court, 10 September 1928 -- D. Regina v. Donald Marshall Jr., Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, 26 March 1997 -- Regina v. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench, 28 October 1997 -- F. Regina V. Peter Paul, New Brunswick Court of Appeal, 22 April 1998 -- G. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada, 17 September 1999 -- H. Regina v. Marshall Jr., Supreme Court of Canada Motion for rehearing and stay, 17 November 1999