9 The Colony of British Columbia’s Unsurveyed Land System

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Treaty Timeline vii
4. Acknowledgments, Haichka xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Photo Essay 19
7. First Nations and Colonial Understandings of Indigenous Land Rights
8. Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas 29
9. Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849–64 49
10. The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties 92
11. Treaty Texts
12. The Earliest First Nations Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850–54 123
13. Senćoŧen and Lekwungen Texts of the Vancouver Island Treaties 155
14. Huu-ay-aht t’ayii ḥawił ƛiishin’s Land Transaction with William Banfield 162
15. The Beginning and End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island
16. Land, First Nations, James Douglas, and the Background to Treaty Making on Vancouver Island 187
17. The Rutters’ Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island 220
18. After the Treaties
19. The Colony of British Columbia’s Unsurveyed Land System 247
20. “The Last Potlatch” and James Douglas’s Vision of an Alternative Settler Colonialism 288
21. Refections 329
22. Contributors 337
23. Index 341