Native Moose Derby

Here is some information that can be read at one's convenience.

http://www.uofrpress.ca/publications/Clearing-The-Plains

Excerpted in the link below.

ww.thestarphoenix.com/news/Shameful+history+backed+evidence/9057152/story.html An academic history of Treaty 6, and the starvation of the indigenous people of the west - derived from the National Policy.

On another note: Fishery and game management legislation was not an inspirational political piece of mainstream officials in Upper and Lower Canada. The Legislation and Policy was grafted from Britain. The conception of game policy was designed to protect the game resource(s) for the wealthy, by depriving the locals of their food sources. The method of invention was transferred to the Legislatures in Canada.

I'll provide a brief excerpt below, but for greater details read: Ojibwa Fishing Grounds: A history of ONtario fisheries law, science, and the sportman's challenge to Aboriginal treaty rights, 1650 - 1900.

"In England, a series of early 18th century Acts for the the Preservation of Salmon vested the lords of manors and other owners of fisheries with their exclusive use". These were designed as social controls, "so that England's landed gentry claimed that it's stringent game laws were in the interest of their society and how they justified their monopoly on fish and game". The Upper Canada Acts for the Preservation of Salmon can be readily compared.
 
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