POLS 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 8 : Wampum, Walter Presents, Eviction

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 320
• Professor: Asbjorn Melkevic

Document Summary

Up the creek: fishing for a new constitutional orer. This paper deals with one such contestation and the resulting debate constitutional order and crown sovereignty and most importantly, to reaffirm their own constitutional order and autonomy. Thus far, the courts have refused to engage in these jurisdictional and jurisdiction over the atlantic salmon fisheries. Indigenous people are now engaging in jurisdictional debates (0ften sovereignty debates by framing these debates strictly in terms of a discourse of aboriginal and treaty rights. For indigenous peoples however, the involvement of others in these intergovernmental disputes is nothing new. )n this article, ) want to suggest that the mi(cid:495)kmaw claim of rights and. The question government has jurisdiction over the fish and who (cid:498)owns (cid:498) the fish. Examining the mi(cid:495)kmaw claim to rights and responsibilities for the salmon as disputes as they are understood and conceptualized within mi(cid:495)kmaq. )n their view, the mi(cid:495)kmaq have never fished illegally in canada; it is the.