Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to AlaskaHarvard University Press, 30 de nov. 2007 - 388 pàgines During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And certain indigenous peoples benefit from treaty rights, while others do not. These variations are traceable to choices made more than a century ago—choices about whether indigenous people were the owners of their land and how that land was to be transferred to whites. |
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Australia Terra Nullius by Design | 13 |
New Zealand Conquest by Contract | 47 |
New Zealand Conquest by Land Tenure Reform | 84 |
Hawaii Preparing To Be Colonized | 128 |
California Terra Nullius by Default | 163 |
British Columbia Terra Nullius as Kindness | 195 |
Oregon and Washington Compulsory Treaties | 231 |
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