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.)

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.

Table of Contents

• 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