Chapter One Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Claims

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Claims 3
6. The Douglas Treaties and Aboriginal Title 17
7. The Douglas “System”: Reserves, Pre-Emptions, and Assimilation 26
8. Segregation and Suppression, 1864-87 39
9. Demands for Title, Treaties, and Self-Government, 1887-99 53
10. The Politics of Survival 68
11. From Intertribal to Province-Wide Political Action, 1900-16 84
12. Cut-Offs, Claims Prohibition, and the Allied Tribes, 1916-27 96
13. Coastal Politics: The Native Brotherhood and Tribal Connais, 1931-58 114
14. Interior Politics and Attempts at Province-Wide Unity, 1958-68 125
15. Federal Government Initiatives, 1960-9 139
16. The Formation ofthe New Organizations, 1969-71 151
17. Big Money and Big Organizations, 7972-5 165
18. Tribalism Re-Established, 1976-9 181
19. Forums and Funding, Protests and Unity, 1980-9 196
20. Aboriginal Title in the Courts 213
21. The Province and Land Claims Negotiations, 1976-89 227
22. Notes 239
23. Bibliography 281
24. Index 289