To Share, not Surrender

The past is with us and history matters. Read To Share Not Surrender as a great example of how there can be different interpretations of the past.

- Robin Fisher (The British Columbia Review)

“To Share, Not Surrender is a book that could help every British Columbian to better understand the historical, political, and relational fabric of this province – and the obligations that flow from this.”

- Alan Hanna, University of Victoria (BC Studies) Until now, academic discussion of the Vancouver Island treaties has tended to be sparse, vague, and insufficiently attentive to Indigenous perspectives. In consequence, public knowledge of the Treaties, and especially the white settlers’ collective failure to honour them, leaves much to be desired. To Share Not Surrender aims to overcome these shortcomings. In my opinion, it succeeds admirably. - Martin George Holmes, University of Otago (Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies)

Neil Vallance is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Victoria, undertaking ethno-historical research on Vancouver Island Treaty claims.

Hamar Foster is a professor emeritus of law at the University of Victoria. He has co-edited five books and authored numerous articles on Aboriginal law and legal history.

Graham Brazier is an independent scholar studying the human history of islands in the Salish Sea.

John Lutz is a professor of history at the University of Victoria and author of Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations.

Peter Cook is an associate professor of history at the University of Victoria and has published in a variety of scholarly periodicals.

Contributors: Keith Thor Carlson, Robert Clifford, Emchayiik Robert Dennis Sr., STOLCEL John Elliott Sr., Elmer George, Stephen Hume, Maxine Hayman Matilpi, Kevin Neary, Adele Perry, Sarah Pike, Chief Ron Sam, and Laura Spitz