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Author Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- author.

Title Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk
Published Regina [Sask.] : University of Regina Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Canadian Plains studies, 0317-6290 ; 65
Canadian plains studies ; 65. 0317-6290
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 -- Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76 -- Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69 -- Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82 -- Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883- 85 -- The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91 -- Conclusion
Summary Clearing the Plains shows how Canada's first Prime Minister instituted a policy of starvation to help clear the Plains for railway development, and how those detrimental effects against Aboriginal people continue today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations -- History
Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History
Indians of North America -- Diseases -- Canada, Western -- History
Indians of North America -- Canada, Western -- History
HISTORY / Native American.
Colonization -- Health aspects
Ethnic relations
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Diseases
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
SUBJECT Canada, Western -- Ethnic relations -- History
Canada, Western -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History
Subject Canada
Western Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889772960
0889772967
9780889772977
0889772975