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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk.
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."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889772960
- ISBN: 0889772967
- ISBN: 9780889773400
- ISBN: 0889773408
- ISBN: 9780889772977
- ISBN: 0889772975
- Physical Description: xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : U of R Press, [2013]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans -- ch. 2 Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease -- ch. 3 Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740--82 -- ch. 4 Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783--1821 -- ch. 5 Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821--69 -- ch. 6 Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869--76 -- ch. 7 Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877--82 -- ch. 8 Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883--85 -- ch. 9 Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886--91. |
| Language Note: | Text in English. |
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| Genre: | History. |
| Topic Heading: | First Nations Canada. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Castlegar Campus Library | E 78 C2 D17 2013 (Text)
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