| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 333 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Part One The Creation of a Reserve -- 1 Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions -- 2 The Beginnings of White Hegemony -- 3 Reserving Other People's Land -- 4 The O'Keefe Syndrome -- 5 Rule by Notables -- 6 The Process of Economic Incorporation -- 7 The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865-1931 |
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Part Two The Contemporary Community -- 8 The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community -- 9 Okanagan Factions -- 10 Making Ends Meet in the 1950s -- 11 Household Economy and the Wider Society in the 1980s -- 12 The Assimilation of Chiefs, 1932-1987 -- 13 Band Government, Administration, and Politics -- 14 Band Council Affairs -- 15 Why Education? -- 16 Reserve Catholicism |
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Part Three The Wider Framework -- 17 The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View -- Appendices |
| Summary |
An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Okanagan Indians -- History
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Okanagan Indians -- Government relations
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Okanagan Indians
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442664661 |
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1442664665 |
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9780802058935 |
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0802058930 |
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