To share, not surrender: Indigenous and settler visions of treaty making in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Detailed table of contents available

• Treaty Timeline
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Photo Essay

Part 1: First Nations and Colonial Understandings of Indigneous Land Rights

• Chapter 1 - Indigenous Lands, Imperial Travels, and James Douglas
• Chapter 2 - Colonialism, Law, and the Social Construction of Humanity on Vancouver Island, 1849-64
• Chapter 3 - The Imperial Law of Aboriginal Title at the Time of the Douglas Treaties

Part 2: Treaty Texts

• The Earliest First Nations Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties of 1850-54
• SENCOTEN and Lekwungen Texts of the Vancouver Island Treaties

Part 3: The Beginning and End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island

• Chapter 7 - Land, First Nations, James Douglas, and the Backgound to Treaty Making on Vancouver Island
• Chapter 8 - The Rutters' Impasse and the End of Treaty Making on Vancouver Island

Part 4: After the Treaties

• Chapter 9 - The Colony of British Columbia's Unsurveyed Land System
• Chapter 10 - "The Last Potlatch" and James Douglas's Vision of an Alternative Settler Colonialism
• Reflections
• Contributors