Laws of the land: indigenous and state jurisdictions on the Central Coast

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dc.contributor.authorColgrove, Sarah
dc.contributor.supervisorCurran, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-20T20:07:05Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-12-20
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Lawen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Laws LL.Men_US
dc.description.abstractWith discussion of Indigenous laws on the rise in Canada, this thesis explores the question of law’s power: jurisdiction. In this project, I ask whether Indigenous jurisdiction is active in conflicts between Indigenous and state actors over the environment, in the context of the Heiltsuk Nation on the central coast of British Columbia. This project looks to critical legal theory for an understanding of jurisdiction. It identifies three aspects of jurisdiction that are discussed in critical legal theory and related fields: that it is technical, it is authoritative, and it is spatial. Adopting these qualities as provisional indicators of jurisdiction, it applies thefzm to three case studies of Heiltsuk (or “Haíɫzaqv”) conflicts with the state, which engage colonial law in different ways. The three case studies concern (1) herring harvest and management, which was litigated in R v Gladstone; (2) land use and forestry, which is the subject of the Great Bear Rainforest agreements; and (3) trophy hunting for bears, which is the subject of a grassroots campaign based on Indigenous law. Adopting a qualitative approach adapted from institutional ethnography, this project applies a critical jurisdictional lens to each case study, using documentary review and interviews to explore the technical, authoritative, and spatial aspects of each conflict. Ultimately, I find that expressions of Heiltsuk jurisdiction – as understood from a colonial, critical perspective – are already at play in each conflict, although this is not immediately visible from the point of view of colonial law. In the conclusion, I explore the different manifestations and strategies of Heiltsuk jurisdictional expressions, and the ways that colonial jurisdiction interacts with them.en_US
dc.description.embargo2021-12-19
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11399
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.subjectLegalen_US
dc.subjectJurisdictionen_US
dc.subjectLegal theoryen_US
dc.subjectCritical Theoryen_US
dc.subjectCritical legal theoryen_US
dc.subjectCritical legal geographyen_US
dc.subjectLegal geographyen_US
dc.subjectterritoryen_US
dc.subjectConstitutionalismen_US
dc.subjectlegal authorityen_US
dc.subjectauthorityen_US
dc.subjectaboriginalen_US
dc.subjectaboriginal lawen_US
dc.subjectIndigenousen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous lawsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous legal traditionsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous jurisdictionen_US
dc.subjectHeiltsuken_US
dc.subjectCentral Coasten_US
dc.subjectGreat Bear Rainforesten_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental lawen_US
dc.subjectNatural resourcesen_US
dc.subjectHerringen_US
dc.subjectBear hunten_US
dc.subjectBC Legal Historyen_US
dc.subjectBC Historyen_US
dc.subjectfisheriesen_US
dc.subjectforestryen_US
dc.subjecthuntingen_US
dc.titleLaws of the land: indigenous and state jurisdictions on the Central Coasten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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