ToShare,NotSurrender Format: Hardback

A survey of land struggles in Vancouver Island between settlers and indigenous peoples through two centuries.

For centuries, nations have battled in court over the meanings of indigenous and settler treaty agreements. In the spirit of cel’an’en, which means “our culture, the way of our people,” To Share, Not Surrender surveys two centuries of land struggles on Vancouver Island through translations and interpretations of key treaties in SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages as well as accounts from Songhees, Huu-ay-aht, and WSANEC peoples. As the struggle for land continues, this book advances the urgent task of justice and reconciliation in Canada.
 

Peter Cook is associate professor of history at the University of Victoria.
 

Neil Vallance is adjunct professor of law at the University of Victoria.

John Lutz is professor of history at the University of Victoria and author of Makúk: A New History of Indigenous-White Relations.

Graham Brazier is an independent scholar studying the human history of islands in the Salish Sea.

Hamar Foster is professor emeritus of law at the University of Victoria.