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. Contents 7 Illustrative Material 9 Okanagan Nation Declaration 11 Foreword 13 Preface 15 Acknowledgments 23 PART ONE. The Creation of a Reserve 29 Chapter One. Traditional Okanagan Society and Institutions 29 Chapter Two. The Beginnings of White Hegemony 57 Chapter Three. Reserving Other People's Land 82 Chapter Four. The O'Keefe Syndrome 95 Chapter Five. Rule by Notables 115 Chapter Six. The Process of Economic Incorporation 131 Chapter Seven. The Political Incorporation of Chiefs and the People, 1865-1931 142 Chapter Eight. The Okanagan Reserve as Canadian Community 167 Chapter Nine. Okanagan Factions 185 Chapter Ten. Making Ends Meet in the 1950s 194 Chapter Eleven. Household Economy and the Wider Society in 1980s 209 Chapter Twelve. The Assimilation of Chiefs, 1932-1987 232 Chapter Thirteen. Band Government, Administration, and Politics 250 Chapter Fourteen. Band Council Affairs 267 Chapter Fifteen. Why Education? 285 Chapter Sixteen. Reserve Catholicism 291 PART THREE. The Wider Framework 299 Chapter Seventeen. The Queen's People: An Anthropologist's View 299 APPENDIX 1 319 APPENDIX 2 322 APPENDIX 3 323 APPENDIX 4 324 APPENDIX 5 326 APPENDIX 6 328 Bibliography 333 Index 351 Peter Carstens. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 305-322) And Index.