Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia

by David Rossiter and Patricia Burke Wood

Book Overview

A clear-eyed study that dissects the unstable ideologies of settler-Indigenous land and title arrangements in British Columbia.

The question of land dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties upends the usual approach--investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land--to reframe the issue as attempts by the Crown to solidify claims to Indigenous territory.

First Nations political and intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077486625X
• ISBN13: 9780774866255
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"