"A fine line between two nations": Ownership patterns for plant resources among Northwest Coast indigenous peoples

Keeping it Living

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 151-178

  Turner, Nancy J ^a   Smith, Robin ^b   Jones, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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1. Another factor that needs to be taken into account is that ownership rights and traditions have come under increasing scrutiny as Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia have entered into modern-day land rights negotiations and litigation. This circumstance may have brought into sharper focus certain features of traditional ownership patterns, as Aboriginal peoples have been compelled to establish their claims according to European standards of ownership and property rights. Of course, "traditions" are dynamic and evolve and are reinterpreted through social and cultural change. To expect otherwise would be to assume a static, time-bound view of Aboriginal cultures.