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[Plowright, Ron]

Does what's happening with the provincial governments recent zoning of the
ALR resemble the "cut off" lands described in this reference?

Excerpt below taken from:
http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/reserves.html


Reserve reduction in British Columbia

Reserves in British Columbia had barely been established before government
officials moved to reduce them in size. In the late 1860s, the governor of
British Columbia, Joseph Trutch, “cut off” what he deemed excess land from
many of the province’s reserves under the pretense that Aboriginal people
did not need so much land and that white settlers would make better use of
it—an ethnocentric view that defined “productive use” as resource
extraction and agriculture. These and other lands lost through successive
reductions are known as “cut-off lands.” Many bands subsequently argued
that their reserves were too small and location was poor. As geographer
Cole Harris notes,

>From the late 1860s, Native leaders [in British Columbia] had protested
their small reserves in every way they could, claiming, fundamentally, that
their people would not have enough food and that their progeny had no
prospects. In retrospect, they were right. The spaces assigned to Native
people did not support them, although the mixed economies they cobbled
together, the revised diets they ate, and the accommodations and
settlements they lived in had allowed some of them to survive.4


Dawn Morrison,

Research Associate, Indigenous Community Engagement
Southwest BC Bioregional Food Systems Design and Plan
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Office: 604.599.2569
Email: dawn.morrison at kpu.ca
Website: http://www.kpu.ca/isfs


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