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The terror of the coast : land alienation and colonial war on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863 / Chris Arnett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Burnaby, B.C. : Talonbooks, 1999Description: 382 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0889223181
  • 9780889223189
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Terror of the coast.DDC classification:
  • 971.1200497 23
LOC classification:
  • E78.B9 A75 1999
Summary: An extensively detailed reconstruction of the war between the Northwest Coast Natives and Vancouver Island's colonial government.Review: "On April 20, 1863 a British naval gunboat fired on a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults against European settlers in the Gulf Islands. The gunboat was repulsed with casualties after a fierce battle with a handful of warriors. Following this defeat, the colonial government responded with one of the largest military operations in British Columbia's history, on the east coast of Vancouver Island and extending throughout the waters and islands of Active Pass, Trincomalee Channel and Stuart Channel, from Saturna Island north to Comox." "Previously ignored, the war between the "People of the Land" and the colonial government remains of utmost significance in today's world of unsettled First Nations' land claims. After the war of 1863 aboriginal land continued to be alienated, and Native jurisdiction eroded, throughout British Columbia--leaving an inequity which remains unresolved almost a century and a half later. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-382).

An extensively detailed reconstruction of the war between the Northwest Coast Natives and Vancouver Island's colonial government.

"On April 20, 1863 a British naval gunboat fired on a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults against European settlers in the Gulf Islands. The gunboat was repulsed with casualties after a fierce battle with a handful of warriors. Following this defeat, the colonial government responded with one of the largest military operations in British Columbia's history, on the east coast of Vancouver Island and extending throughout the waters and islands of Active Pass, Trincomalee Channel and Stuart Channel, from Saturna Island north to Comox." "Previously ignored, the war between the "People of the Land" and the colonial government remains of utmost significance in today's world of unsettled First Nations' land claims. After the war of 1863 aboriginal land continued to be alienated, and Native jurisdiction eroded, throughout British Columbia--leaving an inequity which remains unresolved almost a century and a half later. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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