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• Acknowledgments
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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'an'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 SENCOTEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-embracing exploration of the struggle over land, To Share, Not Surrender advances the urgent task of reconciliation in Canada.
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• Treaty timeline / Hamar Foster and Neil Vallance
• Acknowledgments / Haichka
• Introduction
• Photo essay
• 1. Indigenous lands, imperial travels, and James Douglas / Adele Perry
• Colonialism, law, and the social construction of humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849-64 / Laura Spitz
• The imperial law of aboriginal title at the time of the Douglas treaties / Hamar Foster
• The earliest First Nations accounts of the formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) treaties of 1850-54 / Neil Vallance
• SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen texts of the Vancouver Island treaties / Neil Vallance, STOLȻEȽ John Elliott, Sr., and Elmer George
• Huu-ay-aht t'ayii ̣ hawi̓ł ƛiisǐn's land transaction with William Banfield / Emchayiik, Robert Dennis, Sr., and Kevin Neary
• Land, First Nations, James Douglas, and the background to treaty making on Vancouver Island / Graham Brazier
• The Rutters' impasse and the end of treaty making on Vancouver Island / John Sutton Lutz
• The colony of British Columbia's unsurveyed land system / Sarah Pike
• "The last Potlach" and James Douglas's vision of an alternative settler colonialism / Keith Thor Carlson
• Reflections / Robert Clifford, Stephen Hume, and Maxine Hayman Matilpi

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'an'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 SENCOTEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-embracing exploration of the struggle over land, To Share, Not Surrender advances the urgent task of reconciliation in Canada.
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• Introduction: The role of indigenous law in the privatiztion of lands
• Housing on reserve : developing a critical indigenous feminist property theory / Val Napoleon and Emily Snyder
• Market citizenship and indigeneity / Shalene Jobin
• The principle of sharing and the shadow of Canadian property law / Sarah Morales and Brian Thom
• Property rights on reserves : "new" ideas from the nineteenth century / Sarah Carter and Nathalie Kermoal
• Conceptualizing aboriginal taxpayers, real property, and communities of sharing / Richard Daly
• Indigenous land rights and the politics of property / Jamie Baxter
• The new law-making powers of First Nations over family homes on Indian reserves / Michel Morin
• Aboriginal title in Tsilhqot'in : exploring the public power of private property at the Supreme Court of Canada / Sari Graben and Christian Morey
• Land, Niger Delta peoples, and oil and gas decision-making / Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu
• Locating the woman : a note on customary law and the utility of real property in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland) / Tenille E. Brown

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project. Creating Indigenous Property identifies how contemporary Indigenous conceptions of property are rooted in and informed by their societally specific norms, meanings, and ethics. Through detailed analysis, the authors illustrate that unexamined and unresolved contradictions between the historic and the present have created powerful competing versions of Indigenous law, legal authorities, and practices that reverberate through Indigenous communities. They have identified the contradictions and conflicts within Indigenous communities about relationships to land and non-human life forms, about responsibilities to one another, about environmental decisions, and about wealth distribution. Creating Indigenous Property contributes to identifying the way that Indigenous discourses, processes, and institutions can empower the use of Indigenous law. The book explores different questions generated by these dynamics, including: Where is the public/private divide in Indigenous and Canadian law, and why should it matter? How do land and property shape local economies? Whose voices are heard in debates over property and why are certain voices missing? How does gender matter to the conceptualization of property and the Indigenous legal imagination? What is the role and promise of Indigenous law in negotiating new relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canada? In grappling with these questions, readers will join the authors in exploring the conditions under which Canadian and Indigenous legal orders can productively co-exist.
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• Keeping the land, making the market
• Property stories
• Leaders and land reform
• Save or sell?
• Ideas and interests in uncertain times
• The future of inalienable property

Inalienable Properties explores contrasting approaches to property rights by four Indigenous communities to illustrate how inalienability - restrictions on the ability to buy and sell land - is linked to community leadership and decision-making structures that have long-lasting consequences for communities. Drawing on new research about institutional change in organizational settings, Jamie Baxter explores when and how community leaders have sustained inalienable land rights without turning to either persuasion or coercive force - the two levers of power normally associated with political leadership. He also challenges the view that liberalized land markets are the inevitable result of legal and economic change.
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• Introduction: Reading a treaty
• The making of the Peace and Friendship Treaties, 1725-1779
• The making of the Huron-British Treaty of 1760
• Upper Canada land surrenders : Rice Lake Treaty of 1818
• The making of the Robinson-Huron Treaty, 1850
• The making of the Vancouver Island Treaties : Saanich Treaties, 1852
• The early numbered treaties : Treaty no. 6, 1876
• The Northern numbered treaties : Treaty no. 8, 1899
• The making of the Williams Treaties, 1923.

In Solemn Words and Foundational Documents, Jean-Pierre Morin unpacks the complicated history of Indigenous treaties in Canada. By including the full text of eight significant treaties from across the country--each accompanied by a cast of characters, related sources, discussion questions, and an essay by the author--he teaches readers how to analyze and understand treaties as living documents. The book begins by examining treaties concluded during the height of colonial competition, when France and Britain each sought to solidify their alliances with Indigenous peoples. It then goes on to tell the stories of treaty negotiations from across the country: the miscommunication of ideas and words from Crown representatives to treaty text; the varying ranges of rights and promises; treaty negotiations for which we have a rich oral history but limited written records; multiple phases of post-Confederation treaty-making; and the unique case of competing treaties with radically different interpretations.
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Canada's Indigenous Constitution reflects on the nature and sources of law in Canada, beginning with the conviction that the Canadian legal system has helped to engender the high level of wealth and security enjoyed by people across the country. However, longstanding disputes about the origins, legitimacy, and applicability of certain aspects of the legal system have led John Borrows to argue that Canada's constitution is incomplete without a broader acceptance of Indigenous legal traditions. With characteristic richness and eloquence, John Borrows explores legal traditions, the role of governments and courts, and the prospect of a multi-juridical legal culture, all with a view to understanding and improving legal processes in Canada. He discusses the place of individuals, families, and communities in recovering and extending the role of Indigenous law within both Indigenous communities and Canadian society more broadly. This is a major work by one of Canada's leading legal scholars, and an essential companion to Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide.
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