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Making Native Space:

Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia
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UBC Press, 2002 - History - 415 pages

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographicalhistory of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzesthe impact of reserves on Native lives and livelihoods and considershow, in light of this, the Native land question might begin to beresolved. The account begins in the early nineteenth-century BritishEmpire and then follows Native land policy - and Native resistance toit - in British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the early 1850sto the formal transfer of reserves to the Dominion in 1938.

  

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Contents

The Imperial Background
3
The Douglas Years 185064
17
Ideology and Land Policy 186471
45
The Confederation Years 187176
73
The Joint Indian Reserve Commission 187678
104
Sproat and the Native Voice 187880
136
OReilly Bureaucracy and Reserves 188098
169
Imposing a Solution 18981938
216
Native Space
265
Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy
293
Appendix
325
Notes
335
Source Notes for Figures
392
Bibliography
395
Index
409
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About the author (2002)

Cole Harris recently retired as a member of theDepartment of Geography at the University of British Columbia and isthe author or editor of many books about British Columbia and Canada,including The Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1, for whichhe was the editor, and The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essayson Colonialism and Geographical Change.

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TitleMaking Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia
Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series
AuthorR.Cole Harris
Editionillustrated
PublisherUBC Press, 2002
ISBN0774809019, 9780774809016
Length415 pages
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History / Canada / General
History / Native American
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
  
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