Making native space colonialism resistance and reserves in british columbiait presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in bc the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for native people from the rest. Cole harris making native space colonialism resistance and reserves in british columbia vancouver university of british columbia press 2002 448 pp volume 18 issue 1 robert menzies. The account begins in the early nineteenth century british empire and then follows native land policy and native resistance to it in british columbia from the douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the dominion in 1938 making native space clarifies and informs the current debate on the native land . Making native space colonialism resistance and reserves in british columbia vancouver university of british columbia press 2002 415 pp paper 3095 cloth 3995 karl preuss university of victoria university of saskatchewan historian j r miller comments in his article native history in canadian history a readers guide that when an earlier version of the bibliographic guide . The account begins in the early 19th century british empire and follows native land policy and native resistance to it in british columbia from the douglas treaties in the early 1850s to the formal transfer of reserves to the dominion in 1938 making native space clarifies and informs the current debate on the native land question it