There have been three distinct campaigns for Aboriginal rights and title in British Columbia. The first began when the fur trade era gave way to the settlement frontier in the 1850s and ’60s. Characterized by appeals to Indigenous law as well as to morality and Scripture, it was confined primarily to delegations sent by individual communities to seek redress from the colonial…
Hamar Foster
Hamar Foster is an emeritus professor of law at the University of Victoria and co-editor of the forthcoming To Share, Not Surrender.