Some suggest Douglas ran out of funds and was unable to obtain additional
resources from the British government (Frank Cassidy, “Aboriginal Lan
d Claims in British Columbia,” in Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: A Regional Perspective, ed. Ken Coates, Copp Clark Pitman, Toronto, 1992, p. 13), while another view is that Douglas later subscribed to a system that anticipated the assimilation of Indians and the abandonment of traditional communities for homesteads (Paul Tennant, Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in
...[+++]British Columbia, 1849–1989, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1990, pp. 36–7).D’après certains, Douglas aurait manqué de fonds et n’aurait pu obtenir de ressources supplémentaires du gouvernement britannique (Frank Cassidy, « Aborig
inal Land Claims in British Columbia », dans Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: A Regional Perspective, éd. Ken Coates, Copp Clark Pitman, Toronto, 1992, p. 13); pour d’autres, Douglas croyait à l’assimilation des Indiens et au renoncement aux terres ancestrales (Paul Tennant, Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British
Columbia, 1849–1989, University of British
Columbia Press, Vancouve ...[+++]r, 1990, p. 36 et 37).