CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 The Colonial Period -- 1 The Imperial Background -- 2 The Douglas Years, 1850-64 -- 3 Ideology and Land Policy, 1864- 71 -- PART 2 Province and Dominion -- 4 The Confederation Years, 1871- 76 -- 5 The Joint Indian Reserve Commission, 1876- 78 -- 6 Sproat and the Native Voice, 1878- 80 -- PART 3 Filling in the Map -- 7 O'Reilly, Bureaucracy, and Reserves, 1880- 98 -- 8 Imposing a Solution, 1898- 1938 -- PART 4 Land and Livelihood -- 9 Native Space -- 10 Towards a Postcolonial Land Policy -- APPENDIX Indian Reserves in British Columbia during the Colonial Period -- NOTES -- SOURCE NOTES FOR FIGURES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.