Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 3
5. "For Every Plant There is a Use": The Botanical World of Mexica and Iroquoians 11
6. The Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the use of Fish as an Alternate Subsistence Resource among Northern Plains Bison Hunters 35
7. "Our Country": The Significance of the Buffalo Resource for a Plains Cree Sense of Territory 51
8. Manomin: Historical-Geographical Perspectives on the Ojibwa Production of Wild Rice 71
9. Aboriginal Resource Use in the Nineteenth Century in the Great Plains of Modem Canada 81
10. Dependency: Charles Bishop and the Northern Ojibwa 93
11. Changing Resource-Use Patterns of Saulteaux Trading at Fort Pelly, 1821 to 1870 107
12. Rainy River Sturgeon: An Ojibway Resource in the Fur Trade Economy 119
13. Grant Me Wherewith to Make My Living 141
14. ''Principally Rocks and Burnt Lands'': Crown Reserves and the Tragedy of the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Northwestern Ontario 157
15. The Sinews of Their Lives: Native Access to Resources in the Yukon, 1890 to 1950 173
16. State Policy and the Native Trapper: Post-War Policy toward Fur in the Northwest Territories 191
17. The Board of Investigation and the Water Rights of Indian Reserves in British Columbia, 1909 to 1926 219
18. Indian Title as a "Celestial Institution": David Mills and the St. Catherine's Milling Case 247
19. The St. Catherine's Milling and Lumber Company versus the Queen: Indian Land Rights as a Factor in Federal-Provincial Relations in Nineteenth-Century Canada 267
20. Inuit Land Use Studies and the Native Claims Process 287
21. Fur Trade History and the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en Comprehensive Claim: Men of Property and the Exercise of Title 301
22. Defending World Markets for Fur: Aboriginal Trapping, the Anti-Harvest Movement and International Trade Law 317
23. Contributors 341