Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939

Book Review| July 01 2021 Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939 Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939. By Calverley, David. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018. viii + 224 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.). Emma Stelter Emma Stelter University of Guelph Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 449–451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8940522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Emma Stelter; Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939. Ethnohistory 1 July 2021; 68 (3): 449–451. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8940522 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsEthnohistory Search Advanced Search In Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Conservation in Ontario, 1783–1939, David Calverley examines Anishinaabe hunting rights and the impact of Ontario’s wildlife conservation laws on these rights in northern Ontario. The Anishinaabeg of northern Ontario negotiated their hunting rights through treaties, such as the Robinson treaties (1850–54) and Treaty 3 (1873), which explicitly stated that the Anishinaabeg were free to hunt, trap, and fish as they had always done and that they could engage commercially in these practices. These rights were affirmed during Indigenous-Crown negotiations from at least 1783 to 1939, which is the period covered by Calverley. Despite these enshrined hunting rights, Ontario’s provincial government has implemented conservation laws and policies to undermine treaty agreements and to promote the acculturation of Indigenous people into the Canadian body politic. Reflected in his title Who Controls the Hunt?, Calverley’s legal and historical analysis is positioned... Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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