To share, not surrender Indigenous and settler visions of treaty making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Name: To share, not surrender Indigenous and settler visions of treaty making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Author: Peter Cook , Neil Vallance , John S. Lutz , Graham Brazier , Hamar Foster

To share, not surrender Indigenous and settler visions of treaty making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

	"Too often, history and knowledge of Indigenous-settler conflict over land take the form of confidential reports prepared for court challenges. To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. The collection appraises the historical and present-day relevance of treaty-making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. The authors take us back to when James Douglas and his family relocated to Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1849, critically tracing the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. Informed by cel'an'en - "our culture, the way of our people" - this multivocal work explicitly addresses the tensions between academic research, Indigenous knowledge, and local experience. The collection includes essays, translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages, and contributions by participants of the Songhees, Huu-ay-aht, and WSANEC peoples. The chapters demonstrate that the continuing inability to arrive at equitable land-sharing arrangements stem from a fundamental absence of will with respect to accommodating First Nations world views. To Share, Not Surrender is an attempt to understand why, and thus to advance the urgent task of reconciliation in Canada."-- Provided by publisher
Author(s):	Peter Cook , Neil Vallance , John S. Lutz , Graham Brazier , Hamar Foster
Document:	Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition:	1st Edition
Published:	2021
Physical Description:	xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Genre:	History
Contents:	Acknowledgments \| HaichkaForeword / Chief Ron SamPrefaceIntroduction / Graham Brazier, Peter Cook, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, and Neil VallancePart 1: First Nation and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights1 Note on the Early Life and Career of James Douglas / Graham Brazier2 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry3 More or Less Human: Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849–1864 / Laura Spitz4 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties: What Was It? / Hamar FosterPart 2: Treaty Texts5 The Earliest First Nation Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850–1854 / Neil Vallance6 First Nation Language Texts of the Vancouver Island TreatiesIntroduction / Neil VallanceSENĆOŦEN Language Treaty Text / STOLCEL John Elliott Sr.Lekwungen Language Treaty Text / Elmer George7 Huu-ay-aht t’ayii hawil (Head Chief) liishin’s Land Transaction with Government Agent William Banfield in 1859 / Kevin NearyPart 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island8 Land, First Nations and James Douglas and the Background to Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island / Graham Brazier9 The Rutter’s Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island / John Sutton LutzPart 4: After the Treaties10 “For Ever Removing the Fertile Cause of Agrarian Disturbance”: Governor James Douglas’ British Columbia Unsurveyed Land System / Sarah Pike11 “The Last Potlatch”: James Douglas’ Vision of an Alternative Form of Settler Colonialism / Keith Thor CarlsonAfterword / Robert Clifford, Maxine Matilpi, and Stephen HumeAppendix: Timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil VallanceIndex
Subjects:	Aboriginal Canadians Douglas Treaties British Columbia Vancouver Island, Aboriginal Canadians History British Columbia Vancouver Island, Autochtones Colombie-Britannique Relations avec l'État Histoire, Autochtones Terres Colombie-Britannique Histoire, British Columbia, British Columbia Ethnic relations History, British Columbia Race relations Hist

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