ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Indigenous subjects are produced and marked as capable of belonging to property law through the apparatus of jurisdiction. It illustrates the order-, knowledge-, and space-making practices of jurisdiction on Barriere Lake territory by conflicting land-use patterns produced by provincial regulation and through Barriere Lake's tenure system. The traplines at Barriere Lake reflected the governance system, at piece with the tenure regime of land management. The chapter also examines how the production of social scientific knowledge around Indigenous "property" has radically circumscribed, in a range of ways, the Algonquin legal order that governs land allocation and responsibility on Barriere Lake's territory, including the agency of other-than-human beings. The complicity of anthropologists is a key social process that has had significant agency in shaping the means and matter of colonization in the territory.
