Clearing the plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0889773408
ISBN 13
9780889773400
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
334
Subject
Indigenous peoples -- Diseases -- Western Canada -- History
Tags
Western Canada -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History, Western Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History, Colonization -- Health aspects, Ethnic relations, Western Canada, Indigenous peoples -- Western Canada -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Diseases -- Western Canada -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene -- Western Canada -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations, Colonization, Indigenous peoples -- Diseases, Indigenous peoples -- Government relations, Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene
Abstract
"Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest."--Amazon.
Number of Copies
1
