To Share, Not Surrender

Acknowledgments | 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