{"product_id":"9781442610965","title":"Burnt Church: Religion Culture and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church\/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours and the Canadian government. Over the next two years, boats, cottages, and a sacred grove were burned, people were shot at and beaten, boats rammed and sunk, roads barricaded, and the local wharf occupied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on 12 months of ethnographic field work in Burnt Church\/Esgenoôpetitj, \u003cem\u003eFishing in Contested Waters\u003c\/em\u003e explores the origins of this dispute and the beliefs and experiences that motivated the locals involved in it. Weaving the perspectives of Native and non-Native people together, Sarah J. King examines the community as a contested place, simultaneously Mi’kmaw and Canadian. Drawing on philosophy and indigenous, environmental, and religious studies, \u003cem\u003eFishing in Contested Waters\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the deep roots of contemporary conflicts over rights, sovereignty, conservation, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030626320624,"sku":"9781442610965","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442610965_p0.jpg?v=1763809591","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442610965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}