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Author:

Arnold, David F.

Title:

The fishermen's frontier : people and salmon in Southeast Alaska / David F. Arnold ; foreword by William Cronon.

Publisher:

University of Washington Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvii, 267 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pacific salmon fisheries--Alaska, Southeast--History.
Fishery management--Alaska, Southeast--History.
Tlingit Indians--History.--Alaska, Southeast--History.
Haida Indians--History.--Alaska, Southeast--History.
Traditional ecological knowledge--Alaska, Southeast--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.

Contents:

First fishermen : the aboriginal salmon fishery -- The industrial transformation of the Indian salmon fishery, 1780s-1910s -- Federal conservation, fish traps, and the struggle to control the fishery, 1889-1959 -- Work, nature, race, and culture on the fishermen's frontier, 1900s-1950s -- The closing of the fishermen's frontier, 1950s-2000s -- Epilogue: Endangered species?

Series:

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

ISBN:

029598788X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780295987880 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007048977

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)