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12%OFFCole Harris - Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia - 9780774809016 - V9780774809016
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Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia

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Description for Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia Paperback. 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. Series: Brenda & David McLean Canadian Studies. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBT; JFSL9; JPVH3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 646.

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.

Making Native Space clarifies and informs the current debate on the Native ... Read more

Geographers, historians, anthropologists, and anybody interested in and involved in the politics of treaty negotiation in British Columbia should read this book.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
Brenda & David McLean Canadian Studies
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774809016
SKU
V9780774809016
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Cole Harris
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.

Reviews for Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
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 ... Read more

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