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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life
- Title
- Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk.
- Author
- Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961-
- Publication
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : U of R Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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."
- Series Statement
- Canadian Plains studies, 0317-6290 ; 65
- Uniform Title
- Canadian plains studies ; 65.
- Subjects
- Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
- Indians of North America > Diseases > Canada, Western > History
- Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > Canada, Western > History
- Indians of North America > Canada, Western > History
- Canada, Western > Ethnic relations > History
- Canada, Western > Colonization > Health aspects > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7055
- ISBN
- 9780889773400 (pbk.)
- 0889773408 (pbk.)
- 9780889772960 (bound)
- 0889772967 (bound)
- LCCN
- 2013433457
- OCLC
- 840250989
- Author
- Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- author.
- Title
- Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk.
- Publisher
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : U of R Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Canadian Plains studies, 0317-6290 ; 65Canadian plains studies ; 65.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Other Form:
- Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- Clearing the Plains. Canadian plains studies (Online) Canadian Plains studies ; (CaOONL)20139018204
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7055