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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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Author/contributor
- Daschuk, James W. (James William) (Author)
Title
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Abstract
Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics-the politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. --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
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to readers 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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