Aboriginal Peoples and Politics

Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
Author: Paul Tennant
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774843039

Aboriginal claims remain a controversial but little understood issue in contemporary Canada. British Columbia has been, and remains, the setting for the most intense and persistent demands by Native people, and also for the strongest and most consistent opposition to Native claims by governments and the non-aboriginal public. Land has been the essential question; the Indians have claimed continuing ownership while the province has steadfastly denied the possibility.

Making Native Space

Making Native Space
Author: Cole Harris
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 077484213X

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.

Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada

Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada
Author: D.B. Tindall
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774823372

Aboriginal people in Canada have long struggled to regain control over their traditional forest lands. There have been significant gains in the quest for Aboriginal self-determination over the past few decades, including the historic signing of the Nisga’a Treaty in 1998. Aboriginal participation in resource management is on the rise in both British Columbia and other Canadian provinces, with some Aboriginal communities starting their own forestry companies. Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada brings together the diverse perspectives of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars to address the political, cultural, environmental, and economic implications of forest use. This book discusses the need for professionals working in forestry and conservation to understand the context of Aboriginal participation in resource management. It also addresses the importance of considering traditional knowledge and traditional land use and examines the development of co-management initiatives and joint ventures between government, forestry companies, and native communities.

Report

Report
Author: Ontario. Department of Public Records and Archives
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1921
Genre: Archives
ISBN:

With Good Intentions

With Good Intentions
Author: Celia Haig-Brown
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774842490

With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized colonial wrongs and worked together in a variety of ways to right them, but they could not stem the tide of European-based exploitation. The book is neither an apologist text nor an attempt to argue that some colonizers were simply "well intentioned." Almost all those considered here -- teachers, lawyers, missionaries, activists -- had as their overall goal the Christianization and civilization of Canada's First Peoples. By discussing examples of Euro-Canadians who worked with Aboriginal peoples, With Good Intentions brings to light some of the lesser-known complexities of colonization.