Book
Clearing the Plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889772960 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
xxii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Supporting Aboriginal studies. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. "First Nation's" Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans -- 2. The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease -- 3. Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82 -- 4. Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars,1783-1821 -- 5. Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69 -- 6. Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76 -- 7. Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82 -- 8. Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85 -- 9. The Nadir of "First Nation" Health, 1886-91 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | 971.2 DAS (Text) | 35151000406363 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-07 |
Summary:
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 "First Nation" 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 First Nations and non-"First Nation" populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. -- Review from Reviews & More.
