Making native space : colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia

Harris, Cole 1936- (Author).

Summary: Cole Harris analyses the impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considers how, in the light of this, the Native land question might be resolved. The account begins in the colonial office in the 1830s and then follows Native land policy to the formal transfer of reserves in 1938.

Record details

ISBN: 0774809000
ISBN: 9780774809009
ISBN: 0774809019
ISBN: 9780774809016
Physical Description: print
xxxi, 415 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-408).

Formatted Contents Note:

The Colonial Period -- The Imperial Background -- The Douglas Years, 1850-64 -- Ideology and Land Policy, 1864-71 -- Province and Dominion -- The Confederation Years, 1871-76 -- The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-78 -- Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878-80 -- Filling in the Map -- O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880-98 -- Imposing a Solution, 1898-1938 -- Land and Livelihood -- Native Space -- Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy.