stories from home: first nations, land claims, and Euro‐Canadians

• Published in: American Ethnologist
• Main Author: MENZIES, CHARLES R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Anthropology; British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a00060; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1525%2Fae.1994.21.4.02a00060; https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.1994.21.4.02a00060

This article discusses the opposition of Euro‐Canadian fishers to First Nations' land claims in British Columbia, Canada. The author draws upon his personal experience growing up in a fishing family from northern British Columbia to draw out the complexities of this conflict The object of the article is not to convince the reader of the rightness or wrongness of Euro‐Canadian opposition to First Nations' land claims but rather to create a space in which their fear of and their reactions to land claims can be better understood. [Euro‐Canadians, First Nations, Aboriginal rights, fishing, British Columbia, ethnic conflict]