Book
Disputed waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes fishery
University Press of Kentucky • Lexington, Ky. • Published In 1990 • Pages:
By: Doherty, Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is mostly an account of a twelve-year dispute between Michigan's Ojibwas (Ottawa and Chippewa bands) and the state of Michigan over fishing rights in the Great Lakes. The state of Michigan represented the sports fishing industry which had replaced the earlier fur, lumber, and commercial fishing industries as northern Michigan's major industry. In 1966, the government began to stock fish in the Great Lakes watershed in response to the ecological devastation wrought by lampreys and alewives to the fisheries. This was the beginning of a booming sports fishing industry catering to middle class whites. Local Ojibwas who continued to fish commercially were soon in a fish allocation struggle with the sports fishermen. A resulting court case recognized their aboriginal rights to fishing. An intensely political struggle followed that attempted to impose state rights over the fisheries. An arrangement was finally made out of court that allocated fishing by zones, in which weaker parties such as white commercial fishermen and small-boat Ojibwa fishermen lost out. Except for the first two chapters there is little here on actual Ojibwa traditional or contemporary culture outside of fishing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Fishing
- Marine industries
- Real property
- External relations
- Trial procedure
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1980-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert Doherty
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-168) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90039198
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians