Russel Lawrence Barsh has published “Coast Salish Property Law: An Alternative Paradigm for Environmental Relationships” in the Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.
Here is the introduction to this important paper:
In different venues, Pacific Northwest anthropologist and linguist Wayne Suttles and Salish economist Ronald Trosper have argued that the indigenous peoples of Puget Sound and the Gulf of Georgia–the Coast Salish peoples of the ‘Salish Sea‘–achieved a high degree of economic stability and environmental sustainability through a distinctive regional form of social organization, law, and beliefs. This essay focuses on the nature of the Coast Salish legal paradigm and its implications for managing the living resources of the Salish Sea today. An appropriate starting-point is clarification of the nature of the prevailing paradigm of environmental law.
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