The Queen’s People: A Study of Hegemony Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canada

An analysis of the realities of everyday life for Okanagan Indians on a reserve near Vernon. Carstens applies the peasant model to the study of reserve systems and finds significant correlations. Questions of class, status, power, and institutionalized inequality also come into play.

Peter Carstens is Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto.