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

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

Summary: "This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the books influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the most important books of the twenty-first century" by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a "Book of the Year" by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780889776227 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Edition: New edition
Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Bozhoo indinawemaganidog: An invitation to all our relations / by Niigaan James Sinclair -- Indigenous health, environment, and disease before Europeans -- The early fur trade: territorial dislocation and disease, 1740-82 -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Critical responses.