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.
- ISBN10 0774809019
- ISBN13 9780774809016
- Publish Date 1 January 2003 (first published 14 May 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of British Columbia Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 448
- Language English
