TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnett,Chris
TI  - The terror of the coast: land alienation and colonial war on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863 
SN  - 0889223181
AV  - E78.B9 A75 1999
U1  - 971.1200497 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Burnaby, B.C.
PB  - Talonbooks
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - British Columbia
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Vancouver Island
KW  - Gulf Islands
KW  - Vancouver Island (B.C.)
KW  - History
KW  - Gulf Islands (B.C.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-382)
N2  - 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
ER  -