A First Nation’s Natural Resource Management

A First Nation’s

Case Study

Katelyn Wardlaw

Looking at the West Coast:

Issues with fisheries (B.C)

• Commercial fishing overtaking the rights of aboriginal peoples equal rights
• Fisheries are over exploited
• Social and cultural meaning depleted (as well as subsistence and money)
• Commercial licenses vs. aboriginal licenses
• Loss in traditional management

A History of Native Resource Management

Themes Within Resource Management

A Look At Some of These Issues

Canadian Aboriginal Treaties

• Land Rights Act and jurisdiction
• Issues with respect, cross-culture, and interrelationships
• Co-management
• Equality, property, cultural, participation rights
• Substantial difference in legislation

• Between the crown and aboriginal peoples
• Aboriginal groups agree to share interests (ex. ancestral lands) if given payments and promises by the crown
• Alliances of first nation and crown develop

Views On The Treaties

1.) Treaties are viewed as "legal instruments" which rid of aboriginal rights for resource management

OR

2.) Treaties are viewed as "instruments of relationship" between the native peoples who agree to share their land and resources as autonomous communities

Natural Resource Management

1.) Conflict

• What is the problem?

2.) Complexity

• To what degree of severity?
• Order of operation to be addressed

3.) Uncertainty

• Problems with approaching an appropriate method
• Why certain approaches must be reformed

4.) Change

• Actions taking place due to severity of problem

Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations (stewardship). (Wikipedia)

What Does This Deal With?

Motive For Change

• Land
• Water
• Soil
• Plants
• Animals
• Quality of living

Conclusion/My Opinion

Co-management: "the sharing of power and responsibility between government and local resource users"

References

* We want to switch from "tokenism" of local involvement in government research to communities (especially native) having self-management power on a local level.

Although government policies still have somewhat of a jurisdiction over native claims and land ownership, the crown no longer possesses full power over these native resources.

The key development within first nation's resource management is implementing co-management plans where culture, social, and economic benefits are met at equal importance.

Rights Noticed

Respected Laws - Change

http://seannachie.ca/Website/Website-docs/H-BWestcoast.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/001671859500019H

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/indian-treaties

http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19981805390.html;jsessionid=707B281856B95DFA7456FCE176618F2D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource_management

http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6VbIJTDlZIoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=history+of+aboriginal+resource+management+in+canada&ots=fxGWWLGINH&sig=NmeXGhY2OGI7mJQ5Ab1wMJZt-SE#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20aboriginal%20resource%20management%20in%20canada&f=false

1973: Canada's court of law questioned aboriginal significance in modern times

• Aboriginal rights recognized over Canada
• Settlement of aboriginal claims
• Rights of aboriginal peoples on their claim territory (crown's land)
• Adopted by provincial governments as a right to native peoples and a change in responsibility

1975-2004: Claims settled since Canada's claims policy (ex. Nisga's Agreement)

Image by Tom Mooring