To Share, Not Surrender : Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Cover Image

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To Share, Not Surrender : Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

Cook, Peter. (Author). Brazier, Graham. (Added Author). Foster, Hamar. (Added Author). Lutz, John. (Added Author). Vallance, Neil. (Added Author).

Summary:

To Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and publishes, for the first time, the Vancouver Island Treaties in First Nations languages.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774863841
Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2021.
Copyright: �2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:may.22 Multi-User: limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Formatted Contents Note:	Intro -- Contents -- Treaty Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Photo Essay -- Part 1: First Nations and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights -- 1 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas -- 2 Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849-64 -- 3 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties -- Part 2: Treaty Texts -- 4 The Earliest First Nations Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850-54 -- 5 SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen Texts of the Vancouver Island Treaties -- 6 Huu-ay-aht t'ayii ḥawi� ƛiishin's Land Transaction with William Banfield -- Part 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island -- 7 Land, First Nations, James Douglas, and the Background to Treaty Making on Vancouver Island -- 8 The Rutters' Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island -- Part 4: After the Treaties -- 9 The Colony of British Columbia's Unsurveyed Land System -- 10 "The Last Potlatch" and James Douglas's Vision of an Alternative Settler Colonialism -- Reflections -- Contributors -- Index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBL.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.