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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Indigenous life

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Daschuk, James W.
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Edition
New edition
Call Number
08.1 D26c
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Author
Daschuk, James W.
Responsibility
James W. Daschuk
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Health
First Nations
Canada
Government
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. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others. (From University of Regina Press website)
Contents
Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog : An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair
Foreward by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Introduction to the 2019 Edition
Introduction to the 2013 Edition
Chapter 1 - Indigenous Health, Environment and Disease Before Europeans
Chapter 2 - The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease
Chapter 3 - Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82
Chapter 4 - Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821
Chapter 5 - Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
Chapter 6 - Canada, the Northwest and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
Chapter 7 - Treaties, Famine and the Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
Chapter 8 - Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
Chapter 9 - The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
Conclusion
ISBN
9780889776227
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 D26c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
University of Regina Press website
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