Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Daschuk, James W. (James William) (Author)
Title
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Abstract
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." --Publisher's description.
Place
Regina
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Date
2013
# of Pages
xxii, 318 pages: illustrations
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-88977-297-7 978-0-88977-246-5
Short Title
Clearing the Plains
Accessed
5/21/23, 11:49 PM
Library Catalog
Internet Archive
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/clearingplainsdi0000dasc
Notes
Contents: Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans -- The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease -- Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740- 82 -- Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821 -- Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76 -- Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69 -- Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82 -- Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883- 85 -- The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Citation
Daschuk, J. W. (James W. (2013). Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. University of Regina Press. https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Clearing-the-Plains
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