Controlling Land: Historical Representations of News Discourse in British Columbia

• Published in: American Indian Culture and Research Journal
• Main Author: Harding, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2017
• Subjects: postcolonial discourses; 1998; Nisga'a Treaty; 2002; British Columbia Treaty Referendum; Nisga'a; First Nations
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f91q53b; https://escholarship.org/content/qt6f91q53b/qt6f91q53b.pdf; https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.41.2.harding

News discourse about treaty issues privileges postcolonial discourses about ownership and governance of land and excludes a wide range of indigenous voices. this paper explores how news items interweave the frame “indigenous peoples as a threat” into their coverage of two events, analyzed as separat...