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Making Native space : colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia  Cover Image Book Book

Making Native space : colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia / Cole Harris ; with cartography by Eric Leinberger

Summary:

This book is about the drawing of the most fundamental line on the map of British Columbia, the one separating the tiny fraction of the province set aside for Native peoples from the rest, opened for development. The patches of land created amid the emerging settler society came to be known as Indian reserves

Record details

  • ISBN: 0774809000 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxxi, 415 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2002

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-408) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. I. Colonial Period -- 1. Imperial Background -- 2. Douglas Years, 1850-64 -- 3. Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71 -- Pt. 2. Province and Dominion -- 4. Confederation Years, 1871-76 -- 5. Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-78 -- 6. Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80 -- Pt. 3. Filling in the Map -- 7. O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-98 -- 8. Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938 -- Pt. 4. Land and Livelihood -- 9. Native Space -- 10. Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy.
Subject: Sproat, Gilbert Malcolm, 1834-1913
Douglas, James, 1803-1877
Joint Reserve Commission
Commissions > Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia > McKenna-McBride Commission
Reserves > British Columbia > History
Reserves > British Columbia > History > Maps
Land title and rights > Government policy > British Columbia > History
Colonization of British Columbia > History
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Government relations
Colonial administration
Vancouver Island Treaties

Available copies

  • 1 of 3 copies available at Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Library and Archives.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Library and Archives MAB H37 2002 0012754 Stacks Checked out 10/22/2019
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Library and Archives MAB H37 2002 0019787 Reference Available -
Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Library and Archives MAB H37 2002
Donor: Donated by Stuart Rush, 2013.
0013028 Stacks Checked out 12/24/2024


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