To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia
with Peter Cook, Neil Vallance & special speaker Doug White
This is a special 1.5 hour discussion with two of the book’s editor-contributors Peter Cook, associate professor of history at the University of Victoria and Neil Vallance an adjunct professor of law at the University of Victoria providing ethno-historical research of Vancouver Island Treaties.
We look forward to hearing Peter and Neil speak to the contributions made in this seminal book to our understanding of the Vancouver Island treaties and to the broader context of early Indigenous-settler treaties in what is now Canada.
Peter Cook, Neil Vallance, John Sutton Lutz, Graham Brazier, and Hamar Foster
Peter Cook is a professor at the University of Victoria in are of pre-confederation Canadian history. His research examines the alliances forged between Indigenous nations of eastern North America and European colonies (New France in particular) in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. He is currently studying images of Native American kings in early modern English and French travel writing and their role in shaping the Europeans’ approach to intercultural diplomacy.
Dr. Neil Vallance retired in 2010 from a long career practising property law
in Victoria. In 2016 he obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Law at the
University of Victoria with a dissertation on the formation of the Vancouver
Island (or “Douglas”) Treaties of 1850–1854. He currently
undertakes ethno-historical research on Vancouver Island Treaty claims
and occasionally teaches property law at the University of Victoria.