Status
Available
Call number
Call number
971.1 H3769 2002
Collection
Local notes
Shelved in Aboriginal Collection
Description
This elegantly written and 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 - and Native resistance to it - in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938.
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, [2002]
User reviews
LibraryThing member MeditationesMartini
I was pretty positively disposed to this book from the little slap-slap given to Unwise Theory in the first three pages, and it truly taught me a lot, although I couldn't help but think that if I'd read the intro, the epilogue, and chapter summaries and a couple of case studies for the rest of the
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book, I'd have been more or less just as far ahead. Ah, but the journey is half the etc. Land, then sovereignty! No extinguishment of title! It's good to remember that I'm a lefty on all the issues and just a reactionary when it comes to people being f*ck*ng morons. Show Less
ISBN
0774809000 / 9780774809009