Making native space : colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia / R. Cole Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Cole, 1936-

Series:

Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian reservations--British Columbia--History.

Indian reservations.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--British Columbia.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Indians of North America--Land tenure.

History.

British Columbia.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press, [2002]

Summary:

This insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in light of this, the Native land question might begin to be resolved. The account begins in the early nineteenth-century British Empire and then follows Native land policy in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938.

Contents:

Part 1 The Colonial Period

1 The Imperial Background 3

2 The Douglas Years, 1850-64 17

3 Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71 45

Part 2 Province and Dominion

4 The Confederation Years, 1871-76 73

5 The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-78 104

6 Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80 136

Part 3 Filling in the Map

7 O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-98 169

8 Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938 216

Part 4 Land and Livelihood

9 Native Space 265

10 Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0774809000

0774809019

OCLC:

49691548