John Sutton Lutz’s Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations offers a transformative ethnohistorical analysis of Indigenous economies, wage labor, and state policies across British Columbia. Lutz examines how the Tsilhqot'in, Secwépemc, and Dakelh nations navigated the rapid onset of colonial capitalism, showing how Indigenous workers actively integrated commercial ranch work, freight packing, and seasonal resource harvesting into their traditional subsistence economies. Drawing upon extensive regional documentation from Nemaiah Valley, Ulkatcho, Anahim Lake, Alkali Lake, Sugarcane, Alexandria, and Nazko, the text demonstrates that First Nations were foundational participants in the nineteenth-century agricultural and industrial development of the interior. Lutz analyzes how subsequent provincial land pre-emption laws, reserve reductions, and coercive welfare policies deliberately displaced Indigenous producers from independent land ownership, illuminating the origins of structural marginalization.

Alexandria (B.C.), Alkali Lake (B.C.), Anahim Lake (B.C.), British Columbia Cariboo-Chilcotin, Cariboo (B.C.), First Nations British Columbia Economic conditions, History, Indigenous peoples British Columbia Employment, Nazko (B.C.), Nemaiah Valley (B.C.), Secwepemc, Sugarcane (B.C.), Tsilhqot'in Indians, Ulkatcho (B.C.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.