The Fishermen's Frontier : People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks. .
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks. .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: On the Saltwater Margins of a Northern Frontier -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fishermen's Frontier in Southeast Alaska -- 1. First Fishermen: The Aboriginal Salmon Fishery -- 2. The Industrial Transformation of the Indian Salmon Fishery, 1780s-1910s -- 3. Federal Conservation, Fish Traps, and the Struggle to Control the Fishery, 1889-1959 -- 4. Work, Nature, Race, and Culture on the Fishermen's Frontier, 1900s-1950s -- 5. The Closing of the Fishermen's Frontier, 1950s-2000s -- Epilogue: Endangered Species? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Pacific salmon fisheries -- Alaska, Southeast -- History. Fishery management -- Alaska, Southeast -- History. Tlingit Indians -- Fishing -- Alaska, Southeast -- History. Haida Indians -- Fishing -- Alaska, Southeast -- History. Traditional ecological knowledge -- Alaska, Southeast -- History.