“…open to everybody, provided the new arrivals behaved correctly and cooperated with the local population," the very situation described in the preceding passage about the 1778 joint whale hunt near Okak (Dorais, 1997: 16). Widespread kin-and friendship-based networks lay at the heart of these practices and sentiments, and these connections drew individuals and bands together in cooperative and reciprocal economic relations and in social solidarity (Graburn, 1969) (Castro, 2018;Pope, 2015;Trudel, 1978; see also Fossett, 2001). However, historical sources give no indication that local groups contested use and occupation among themselves (e.g., Saladin d'Anglure, 1984;Taylor, 1974).…”