To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, Graham Brazier, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, Neil Vallance, Peter Cook

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’a?’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SEN?O?EN and Lekwungen languages. An all-embracing exploration of the struggle over land, To Share, Not Surrender advances the urgent task of reconciliation in Canada.

Acknowledgments | Haichka

Foreword / Chief Ron Sam

Preface

Introduction / Graham Brazier, Peter Cook, Hamar Foster, John Lutz, and Neil Vallance