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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971/.004979
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 0802058930 9781442664661
- LCCN
- E99.O35
- LCCN Item number
- C37 1991eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NCaS
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxvii, 333 p., [19] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00228303 (OCoLC)779696037 (CaOOCEL)436378
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NCaS
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- List of Illustrative Material 10
- Okanagan Nation Declaration 12
- Foreword 14
- Preface 16
- Acknowledgments 24
- Part One: THE CREATION OF A RESERVE 30
- 1 Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions 32
- 2 The Beginnings of White Hegemony 58
- 3 Reserving Other People's Land 83
- 4 The O'Keefe Syndrome 96
- 5 Rule by Notables 116
- 6 The Process of Economic Incorporation 132
- 7 The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865–1931 143
- Part Two: THE CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY 176
- 8 The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community 178
- 9 Okanagan Factions 196
- 10 Making Ends Meet in the 1950s 205
- 11 Household Economy and the Wider Society in the 1980s 220
- 12 The Assimilation of Chiefs, 1932–1987 243
- 13 Band Government, Administration, and Politics 261
- 14 Band Council Affairs 278
- 15 Why Education? 296
- 16 Reserve Catholicism 302
- Part Three: THE WIDER FRAMEWORK 308
- 17 The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View 320
- Appendices 340
- APPENDIX 1 340
- APPENDIX 2 343
- APPENDIX 3 344
- APPENDIX 4 345
- APPENDIX 5 347
- APPENDIX 6 349
- Bibliography 354
- Index 372
- A 372
- B 372
- C 373
- D 374
- E 374
- F 374
- G 375
- H 375
- I 376
- J 376
- K 377
- L 377
- M 377
- N 378
- O 378
- P 379
- Q 380
- R 380
- S 381
- T 381
- U 382
- V 382
- W 382
- Z 382
