Treaty Talks, Land Claims, and Aboriginal Rights and Title

This section includes papers that relate directly to issues of treaties, land claims, and aboriginal rights and title. Click on a header and the document will slide out for reading (if you are on a smartphone you will be directed to a new page). Most papers include an abstract or an introduction near the top for quick perusal.

• Coast Salish Food Security in the 21st Century, with Karen Fediuk
  (Keynote Address Presented to the 6th Annual Anthropology Conference on Culture, Community, and Well-Being “Sustaining Food: Conference on Past and Present Food Systems” Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 20 March 2009).
• Now is a critical moment:  The state of BC Treaty Negotiations in the history of land claims
  (a speech given as an introduction to Aboriginal Neighbours Forum, BC Treaties, First Nations' Perspectives. Anglican Diocese of BC, Duncan, 22 Sep 2007).
• Disagreement-in-principle: Negotiating the right to practice Coast Salish culture in treaty talks on Vancouver Island, BC
  (2007 CASCA Conference Paper)
• Aboriginal Rights and Title after Delgamuukw: Anthropological Perspectives
  (early version of paper published in Native Studies Review)

• Co-Management, Negotiation, Litigation: Questions of Power in Traditional Use Studies
(SfAA 1997 Conference Paper)
• Rising to the Test: Meeting Lamer's Tests for Aboriginal Rights and Title After Delgamuukw
  (1999 CASCA Paper)  
• Contemporary & Desired Use of Traditional Resources in a Coast Salish Community: Implications for Food Security and Aboriginal Rights in British Columbia
  (2003 Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology)