| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cole Harris. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. Assisted by Eric Leinberger. (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies Series.) Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2002. Pp. xxxi, 415. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95.

Cole Harris examines the allocation of Indian reserves in British Columbia, Canada, from the 1850s to the 1930s. Beginning with the premise that "colonialism speaks with many voices," his book reveals why some were amplified and others muffled (p. 137). Gilbert Malcolm Sproat serves as Harris's principal example. A reserve commissioner in the 1870s and 1880s, Sproat allocated land in a way that reflected and sustained local needs. Moreover, he supported the bid by some aboriginal peoples for local self-government, although entirely within the existing system of authority. The provincial government took the first opportunity to undo all he had done. Sproat may have been "a colonizer who eventually listened," but the fact that even he—with the privileges of race and class—was silenced speaks to the power of colonialism and the political dynamics of Canadian federalism (p. v). . . .

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