Contents
CHAPTER ONE
The Liberal Surveillance Complex
Imperialism and Colonial Expansion in Western Canada
The Homogenizing Impact of “National” History
Investigating Colonialism as Cultural Formation and Concrete Experience
CHAPTER TWO
The Transformation of Indigenous Territory
The Peoples of the Kamloops and Okanagan Regions
Reserves as Reformatory Spaces
CHAPTER THREE
Churches, Police Forces, and the Department of Indian Affairs
Missionary Surveillance and the Surveillance of Missionaries
Restriction of Movement in British Columbia
The Visual Impact of the Mounted Police
Relations Between the NWMP and the BCPP
Force Strength and External Assistance
Police Forces and Indigenous Employees
CHAPTER FOUR
Disciplinary Surveillance and the Department of Indian Affairs
The Department of Indian Affairs’ Hierarchy
DIA Employees and the Expense of Surveillance
Surveillance by and of Indian Agents
DIA Surveillance, Indigenous Employment, and Cooperation
CHAPTER FIVE
The British Columbia Interior and the Treaty 7 Region to 1877
Indian Policy in Canada and the United States
Indigenous Lands and Settler Interests
Application of Scientific Geography in Western Canada
Indigenous Resistance to 1877 in the British Columbia Interior
Establishment of the Joint Reserve Commission
The Treaty 7 Region Before 1877
Comparing Treaty 7 and the British Columbia Interior Before 1877
Land Retained in the Text of Treaty 7
CHAPTER SIX
The British Columbia Interior, 1877 to 1927
Churches and Indigenous Lands in British Columbia
Indigenous Resistance in British Columbia Before World War I
The McKenna-McBride Commission
Indigenous Resistance and the Issue of Consent in British Columbia
The Special Joint Committee of 1927
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Treaty 7 Region After 1877
Reserve Reductions and the Nature of Consent
CHAPTER EIGHT
Exclusionary Liberalism in World War I and Beyond