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This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the reserve system 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 colonial office in the 1830s 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.
This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the reserve system 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 colonial office in the 1830s 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.
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
Cole Harris recently retired from the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia and is the author or editor of many books about British Columbia and Canada, including The Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1, and The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change.
As the first comprehensive account of the reserve system in British
Columbia, the book is an important contribution to regional
history, the history of aboriginal-white relations, and
colonialism. Perhaps most unexpectedly, because it puts
aboriginal-white relations in the context of the federal-provincial
wrangling that has shaped the Canadian political landscape since
1867, it also manages to breathe new life into an old historical
chestnut.
*American Historical Review, April 2003*
This is a wonderful, timely, thoughtful, and gracefully written
book. It makes a highly significant contribution, both to
scholarship and to public policy.
*Hamar Foster, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, author of
English Law, British Columbia: Establishing Legal Institutions West
of the Rockies and The White Man’s Law in the Far West:
Establishing Legal Institutions in British Columbia*
Cole Harris has written the definitive history of the Aboriginal
struggle for recognition and justice in British Columbia. Future
generations of British Columbians, Aboriginal and otherwise, will
thank him for this remarkable story.
*Neil J. Sterritt, Gitksan Nation, co-author of Tribal Boundaries
in the Nass Watershed*
Along with its encyclopaedic account of the white geographies and
mentalities that dominated British Columbia through the 1800s and
1900s, Making Native Space is also a compelling saga of Aboriginal
management and resistance.
*Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1*
Cole Harris’s latest book is a well crafted, handsomely produced
historical geography ... It is rich in terms of its colonial
discourse analysis, its comparative insight and its engagement with
the politics of postcolonialism.
*Area, Vol. 35, Issue 3, September 2003*
This is an important book for historians, geographers, lawyers,
government officials, and scholars of Aboriginal studies. But it
deserves to reach a wider audience because it speaks to fundamental
issues of Canada’s founding, namely, the dispossession of the
original peoples living here ... Harris has given us a remarkable
book, a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of reserve policy and
the land question in BC today.
*University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05*
Outstanding ... invites us to rethink, and remap, literally and
figuratively, the boundaries and paths that can guide us to a
brighter future.
*American Indian Quarterly, Summer & Fall 2005, Vol. 29, Nos. 3 and
4*
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