Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia - Hardcover

Harris, R. Cole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774809000 ISBN 13: 9780774809009

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, 2002

Synopsis

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in British Columbia. Cole Harris analyzes the ipact of reserves on Native lives and livelyhoods 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. 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. Geographers, historians, anthropologists, and anybody interested in and involved in the politics of treaty negotiation in British Columbia should read this book.

About this title

About the Author

R. Cole Harris is Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia, and the author or editor of many books about BC and Canada, including The Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1, for which he was the General Editor, and The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774809000
• ISBN 13: 9780774809009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 896