Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

Harris, R. Cole

ISBN 10: 0774809019 / ISBN 13: 9780774809016

Published by UBC Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774809019
• ISBN 13: 9780774809016
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 25 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Cole Harris recently retired as a member of 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, for which he was the editor, and The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change.