Two Rivers: The Politics of Wild Salmon, Indigenous Rights and Natural Resource Management

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Gro Ween, Benedict Colombi
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2013
• Subjects: politics of nature; cultural and biological sustainability; salmon; indigeneity; postcolonial epistemology; Norway; Perce; Tana River; Northern Norway; Sámi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su5020478

This paper compares two rivers, Tana River in Northern Norway and Columbia River on the northwest coast of the United States of America. Both rivers host indigenous populations, the Sámi and the Nez Perce, whose cultural and material existence depends upon salmon. Because these people live indigenou...