Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life
James W. Daschuk (Author)
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."
Print Book, English, 2013
U of R Press, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2013
History
xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
9780889772960, 9780889773400, 9780889772977, 0889772967, 0889773408, 0889772975
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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
Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
Text in English