Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Claims

2 The Douglas Treaties and Aboriginal Title

3 The Douglas "System": Reserves, Pre-Emptions, and Assimilation

4 Segregation and Suppression, 1864-87

5 Demands for Title, Treaties, and Self-Government, 1887-99

6 The Politics of Survival

7 From Intertribal to Province-Wide Political Action, 1900-16

8 Cut-Offs, Claims Prohibition, and the Allied Tribes, 1916-27

9 Coastal Politics: The Native Brotherhood and Tribal Councils, 1931-58

10 Interior Politics and Attempts at Province-Wide Unity, 1958-68

11 Federal Government Initiatives, 1960-9

12 The Formation of New Organizations, 1969-71

13 Big Money and Big Organizations, 1972-5

14 Tribalism Re-Established, 1976-9

15 Forums and Funding, Protests and Unity, 1980-9

16 Aboriginal Title in the Courts

17 The Province and Land Claims Negotiations, 1976-89

Notes

Bibliography

Index