Title: Possessing the Pacific
Subtitle: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
Description: Tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska, and how the settlers acquired vast amounts of land from the indigenous people. This acquisition still shapes the relations between whites and indigenous people in most of the world.
Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Race relations, Colonization, Land settlement, Legal status, laws, Land tenure, Oceania, history, Northwest, pacific, history
Places: Oceania, Pacific Northwest