From Dispossession to Decolonization: Towards a Critical Indigenous Geography of Hul'qumi'num Territory (Egan 2008)

TITLE: From Dispossession to Decolonization: Towards a Critical Indigenous Geography of Hul'qumi'num Territory

AUTHOR: Brian Egan

DATE: 2008

DESCRIPTION: Dissertation submitted for PhD at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University

EXTRACT: “This study examines historic and contemporary struggles over land and natural resources in Hul'qumi'num territory. This territory, located in British Columbia's southern Georgia Strait region, encompasses the aboriginal title claim of the Hul'qumi'num people, a Coast Salish group. I explore processes of colonization and dispossession during the latter half of the nineteenth century, examining how colonial ideas of civilization, law and property—backed by military force—aided in the breaching of Hul'qumi'num territorial sovereignty, leading to resettlement of this region…”

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