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• Title:To share, not surrender : Indigenous and settler visions of treaty making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia / edited by Peter Cook, Neil Vallance, John Lutz, Graham Brazier, and Hamar Foster.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Cook, Peter (Associate professor of history), editor.
  Vallance, Neil, editor.
  Lutz, John S. (John Sutton), 1959- editor.
  Brazier, Graham (History scholar), editor.
  Foster, Hamar, 1948- editor.
  Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2021.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: MBD C66 S43 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Indigenous Peoples--Douglas Treaties--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
  Indigenous Peoples--History--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
  
• Canadian Subjects: Indigenous title--British Columbia--History.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--British Columbia--History.
  Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--British Columbia--History.
  Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Government relations--History.
  British Columbia--Ethnic relations--History.
  British Columbia--Race relations--History.
  
• Description:330 pages ; illustrations.
  
• Summary:"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'an̲'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 SENĆOTEN and Lekwungen languages, and contributions by participants of the Songhees, Huu-ay-aht, and W̲SÁNEĆ 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.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic formats.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:077486382X (hardcover)
  9780774863827 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Treay Timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil Vallance
  Acknowledgments, Haichka
  Photo Essay
  Part 1: First Nations and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights
  1 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry
  2 Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849-64 / Laura Spitz
  3 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties / Hamar Foster
  Part 2: Treaty Texts
  4 The Earliest First Nations Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850-54 / Neil Vallance
  5 SENĆOTEN and Lekwungen Texts of the Vancouver Island Treaties / Neil Vallance, STOLCEŁ John Elliott, Sr., and Elmer George
  6 Huu-ay-aht t'ayii ḥawił ƛiishin's Land Transaction with William Banfield / Emchayiik, Robert Dennis, Sr., and Kevin Neary
  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 / Graham Brazier
  8 The Rutters' Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island
  John Sutton Lutz
  Part 4: After the Treaties
  9 The Colony of British Columbia's Unsurveyed Land System / Sarah Pike
  10 "The Last Potlatch" and James Douglas's Vision of an Alternative Settler Colonialism / Keith Thor Carlson
  Reflections / Robert Clifford, Stephen Hume, and Maxine Hayman Matilpi.