The Queen's People : : A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada / / Peter Carstens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Carstens, Peter,
• MitwirkendeR: Alexis, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrative Material --; Okanagan Nation Declaration --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; PART ONE. The Creation of a Reserve --; Chapter One. Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions --; Chapter Two. The Beginnings of White Hegemony --; Chapter Three. Reserving Other People's Land --; Chapter Four. The O'Keefe Syndrome --; Chapter Five. Rule by Notables --; Chapter Six. The Process of Economic Incorporation --; Chapter Seven. The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865-1931 --; Chapter Eight. The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community --; Chapter Nine. Okanagan Factions --; Chapter Ten. Making Ends Meet in the 1950s --; Chapter Eleven. Household Economy and the Wider Society in 1980s --; Chapter Twelve. The Assimilation of Chiefs, 1932-1987 --; Chapter Thirteen. Band Government, Administration, and Politics --; Chapter Fourteen. Band Council Affairs --; Chapter Fifteen. Why Education? --; Chapter Sixteen. Reserve Catholicism --; PART THREE. The Wider Framework --; Chapter Seventeen. The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View --; APPENDIX 1 --; APPENDIX 2 --; APPENDIX 3 --; APPENDIX 4 --; APPENDIX 5 --; APPENDIX 6 --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442664661; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442664661
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Carstens.

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.