Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Of Eels, Judges, and Lobsters: The Marshall Challenge and the Supreme Court Decision 3
6. Paying the Price for History: Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, and Colonists from Treaties to Irrelevance 21
7. Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Frustrations: Social Crises and Government Responses 51
8. Prelude to Marshall: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada 72
9. Thomas Peter Paul and the Mi’kmaq Logging Dispute 94
10. The Marshall Crisis and East Coast Confrontations 127
11. Postlude to Marshall: Joshua Bernard, Lobster Licences, and the Refinement of Mi’kmaq Rights 169
12. What Does It Mean? The Marshall Decision, East Coast Fisheries, and Aboriginal Rights 186
13. Appendices
14. Maritime First Nations Communities: Population 209
15. Lobster Quotas and Mi’kmaq Fishing Rights 212
16. Treaty of 1760 220
17. Notes 223
18. Index 237