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Book SynopsisTo Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and publishes, for the first time, the Vancouver Island Treaties in First Nations languages.
Trade ReviewThe past is with us and history matters. Read To Share Not Surrender as a great example of how there can be different interpretations of the past.
-- Robin Fisher * The British Columbia Review *
"To Share, Not Surrender is a book that could help every British Columbian to better understand the historical, political, and relational fabric of this province – and the obligations that flow from this."
-- Alan Hanna, University of Victoria * BC Studies *
Until now, academic discussion of the Vancouver Island treaties has tended to be sparse, vague, and insufficiently attentive to Indigenous perspectives. In consequence, public knowledge of the Treaties, and especially the white settlers' collective failure to honour them, leaves much to be desired.
To Share Not Surrender aims to overcome these shortcomings. In my opinion, it succeeds admirably. -- Martin George Holmes, University of Otago * Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments | Haichka
Foreword / Chief Ron Sam
Preface
Introduction / Graham Brazier, Peter Cook, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, and Neil Vallance
Part 1: First Nation and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights
1 Note on the Early Life and Career of James Douglas / Graham Brazier
2 Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry
3 More or Less Human: Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849–1864 / Laura Spitz
4 The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties: What Was It? / Hamar Foster
Part 2: Treaty Texts
5 The Earliest First Nation Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850–1854 / Neil Vallance
6 First Nation Language Texts of the Vancouver Island Treaties
Introduction / Neil Vallance
SENĆOŦEN Language Treaty Text / STOLCEL John Elliott Sr.
Lekwungen Language Treaty Text / Elmer George
7 Huu-ay-aht t’ayii hawil (Head Chief) liishin’s Land Transaction with Government Agent William Banfield in 1859 / Kevin Neary
Part 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island
8 Land, First Nations and James Douglas and the Background to Treaty-Making on Vancouver Island / Graham Brazier
9 The Rutter’s Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island / John Sutton Lutz
Part 4: After the Treaties
10 “For Ever Removing the Fertile Cause of Agrarian Disturbance”: Governor James Douglas’ British Columbia Unsurveyed Land System / Sarah Pike
11 “The Last Potlatch”: James Douglas’ Vision of an Alternative Form of Settler Colonialism / Keith Thor Carlson
Afterword / Robert Clifford, Maxine Matilpi, and Stephen Hume
Appendix: Timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil Vallance
Index
