Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia garfinkel - Illustrates ten well-known objects

- Illustrates ten well-known objects and nineteen crest designs from the Pacific Northwest Coast along with meanings and stories

Native communities have developed their own distinct cultures and art forms

University of Northern British Columbia Is Canada truly postcolonial

sure to become a West Coast children’s classic

Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia garfinkel - Illustrates ten well-known objectsThis 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 19th century British Empire and follows Native land policyand Native resistance to itin British Columbia from the Douglas treaties in the