Disputed Waters: Native Americans and the Great Lakes Fishery

by Robert Doherty

Book Overview

This disturbing study of the struggle of the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians for traditional fishing rights in the Great Lakes raises legal and public policy questions that extend far beyond that region. Who owns common-property resources in the United States? Who should manage those resources and for whose benefit? Should Native Americans be accorded rights which supersede those of other citizens and restrict their economic and recreational opportunities?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813152062
• ISBN13: 9780813152066
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"