The result of a long personal association and extensive field and archival research, this study of a small community in Canada is concerned with three closely related themes: the historical processes whereby the Okanagan Indians of British Columbia came to live on reserves; social life in a reserve community at the present time with reference also to relations with the outside world; and the complex effects these historical processes and confinement to a reserve have had on the lives of the Okanagan people in general.
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ISBN:0802068278 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780802068279 (pbk.)
Physical Description:xxvii, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. print
Publisher:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The creation of a reserve: Traditional Okanagan society and institutions -- The beginnings of white hegemony -- Reserving other people's land -- The O'Keefe syndrome -- Rule by notables -- The process of economic incorporation -- The political incorporation of Chiefs and the people 1865-1931 -- The contemporary community: The Okanagan reserve as a Canadian community -- Okanagan factions -- Making ends meet in the 1950s -- Household economy and the wider society in the 1980s -- The assimilation of Chiefs, 1932-1987 -- Band government, administration and politics -- Band council affairs -- Why education? -- Reserve Catholicism -- The wider framework -- The Queen's people: An anthropologist's view -- Appendices.
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