The uniform of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority: case study of a material artifact

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2021-07-29

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Eccleston, Allison

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This thesis uses the uniform of the Stó:lō First Nation’s Lower Fraser Fishing Authority as a cultural, material item to inform and discuss Indigenous-Crown relationships, the history of the community the object belongs to, and the meaning that the object holds for that community. I use the uniform to argue that a single object can hold complex and contradictory meanings that can inform cultural history and relationships. This thesis adds to the historiography of the use of artifacts as an object of study, the history of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority, and also larger discussions of Indigenous-Crown relationships in Canada.

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History, Indigenous History, Stó:lō, Fisheries, Uniform, Semiotics, Ethnohistory, Lower Fraser Fishing Authority, Meaning, Oral History

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13192

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