Native Peoples and Water Rights

Native Peoples and Water Rights
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780773583221
ISBN-13 : 077358322X
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Book Synopsis Native Peoples and Water Rights by : Kenichi Matsui

Download or read book Native Peoples and Water Rights written by Kenichi Matsui and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment. Facing rapidly expanding provincial and federal power as well as private industries, Native peoples saw opportunities to protect their self-governing rights and explore reserve-based economy. Through a combination of field work and archival research, Kenichi Matsui offers an original and pioneering overview of the evolution of water law and agricultural policies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the history of water law philosophies, water development technologies, agricultural policies, and cross-cultural theories, Matsui constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how both Native peoples and non-native stakeholders struggled for better rights and livelihood through litigation, political campaigns, and direct actions. The dramatic stories of early cultural, legal, and political conflict in interior British Columbia and Alberta featured in Native Peoples and Water Rights enrich our understanding of current Native rights disputes throughout North America.


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