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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life  Cover Image Book Book

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

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."

Record details

  • ISBN: 0889772975
  • ISBN: 9780889772977
  • ISBN: 0889773408
  • ISBN: 9780889773400
  • ISBN: 0889772967
  • ISBN: 9780889772960
  • Physical Description: xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
    regular print
    remote
    print
  • 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.
Subject: Kanada
Sozialer Wandel
Hunger
Krankheit
Indianer
Ethnozid
Indianerpolitik
Kanada
Sozialer Wandel
Kolonisation
Indianerpolitik
Indianer
Gesundheit
Ethnische Beziehung
Canada, Western
Canada
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Health and hygiene
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Diseases
Indigenous peoples -- North America
Ethnic relations
Colonization -- Health aspects
Canada (Ouest) -- Relations interethniques -- Histoire
Canada (Ouest) -- Colonisation -- Aspect sanitaire -- Histoire
Indiens d'Amérique -- Canada -- Relations avec l'État
Indiens d'Amérique -- Santé et hygiène -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire
Indiens d'Amérique -- Maladies -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire
Indiens d'Amérique -- Canada (Ouest) -- Histoire
Colonialism -- history
Population Dynamics
Communicable Diseases -- history
Disease Outbreaks -- history
Canada
Health Status
Indigenous peoples, North American -- history
Canada, Western -- Ethnic relations -- History
Canada, Western -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada -- Government relations
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Diseases -- Canada, Western -- History
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Canada, Western -- History
Genre: History.
Topic Heading: First Nations Canada.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

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Merritt Campus E78.C2 D36 2013 (Text) 37100012533191 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -

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