基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. A geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia.
Full 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.
Making Native Space clarifies and informs the current debate on the Native land question. It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC - the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
Geographers, historians, anthropologists, and anybody interested in and involved in the politics of treaty negotiation in British Columbia should read this book.
Contents
Figures and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Colonial Period
1 The Imperial Background
2 The Douglas Years, 1850-64
3 Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71
Part 2: Province and Dominion
4 The Confederation Years, 1871-76
5 The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-78
6 Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80
Part 3: Filling in the Map
7 O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-98
8 Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938
Part 4: Land and Livelihood
9 Native Space
10 Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy
Appendix: Indian Reserves in British Columbia during the Colonial Period
Notes
Source Notes for Maps
Bibliography
Index
