Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada Literature With a new preface by With a new preface by Paul Robert Magosci and an introduction by well known historian Jim Miller Makoons is Book Five of Louise Erdrich's Birch Bark House Series for children from grade three to seven He combines the threads of Canadian political and philosophical theory with the practice of agricultural and hydroelectric pursuits as these forces challenged the traditional lands and water rights of First Nations in western Canada and the Law in Western Canada is an historical study of the issues surrounding water rights for First Nations in southern Alberta and the southern interior of British Columbia during the period 1870 1930