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.
Banner argues that these differences were not due to any
deliberate land policy created in London or Washington. Rather, the
decisions were made locally by settlers and colonial officials and
were based on factors peculiar to each colony, such as whether the
local indigenous people were agriculturalists and what level of
political organization they had attained. These differences loom
very large now, perhaps even larger than they did in the nineteenth
century, because they continue to influence the course of
litigation and political struggle between indigenous people and
whites over claims to land and other resources.
"Possessing the Pacific" is an original and broadly conceived
study of how colonial struggles over land still shape the relations
between whites and indigenous people throughout much of the
world.
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