The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation among the Okanagan of Canada (Heritage)

An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play. Frontmatter List of Illustrative Material (page ix) Okanagan Nation Declaration (page xi) Foreword by Chief Murray Alexis (page xiii) Preface (page xv) Acknowledgments (page xxiii) Part One THE CREATION OF A RESERVE 1 Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions (page 3) 2 The Beginnings of White Hegemony (page 29) 3 Reserving Other People's Land (page 54) 4 The O'Keefe Syndrome (page 67) 5 Rule by Notables (page 87) 6 The Process of Economic Incorporation (page 103) 7 The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865-1931 (page 114) Part Two THE CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY 8 The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community (page 139) 9 Okanagan Factions (page 157) 10 Making Ends Meet in the 1950s (page 166) 11 Household Economy and the Wider Society in the 1980s (page 181) 12 The Assimilation of Chiefs 1932-1987 (page 204) 13 Band Government, Administration, and Politics (page 222) 14 Band Council Affairs (page 239) 15 Why Education? (page 257) 16 Reserve Catholocism (page 263) Part Three THE WIDER FRAMEWORK 17 The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View (page 271) Appendices (page 291) Bibliography (page 305) Index (page 323) Peter Carstens. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 305-322) And Index.