Cole Harris. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia.(Book Review)

Vancouver: UBC Pres 2002 xxxi + 415 pp $8500 woven fabric $29.95 paper.

Beginning in 1850 the first planed efforts at colonial pacification began in what would become British Columbia. The principally linguistically and culturally diverse region in Canada, BC was domicile to a variety of Native nations all of whom had in place established governing methods and land use regimes which in change the direction of necessitated culturally-relevant mapping techniques to formally establish the necessary land base. As in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a pre-colonial geographic blueprint evolv that guided the various Native nations in