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I used to live in a lobster/crab fishing town near the Atlantic. Crab fishermen would meet First Nations people halfway to sell them the crabs that were over q
by m00x 4y ago
I used to live in a lobster/crab fishing town near the Atlantic.
Crab fishermen would meet First Nations people halfway to sell them the crabs that were over quota at a cheaper price since they don't have a quota, and they would sell it bootleg at the reserves.
We used to go down and buy 12 lobsters for $40 when I was a kid (20 years ago). It was the best deal ever.
When I left town, the fishermen started attacking First Nations boat because they realized they(FN) could just do it themselves and just cry colonizer oppression if they got caught. Crab supply got extremely scarce and the gov started cutting down licenses and lowering quotas. Many fishermen lost their 1-2M/y for 3 month of work businesses. There's still violence to this day, some FNs and some fishermen get killed every once in a while, and boats get burned.
- yieldcrv 4y agoHuh never heard the precolonial societies on the Atlantic side referred to as First Nations Does all of Canada use that terminology now? I think that term only bleeds over across the border into the US in the Pacific Northwest, since some tribes there overlap borders and have a special cross border ID that allows employment (some cross border tribes in New England but theyre just split in two)
- Beltalowda 4y ago"First nations" is the common term in Canada to refer to the people living in the area now known as Canada before Europeans arrived, similar to "Native American" in the US.
- yieldcrv 4y agoI think we’re saying the same thing, just had not confirmed it was all of Canada saying this for all pre-european civilizations within Canada.