Description: Clearing the Plains : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life, Hardcover by Daschuk, James, ISBN 0889776210, ISBN-13 9780889776210, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The award-winning book about how Canada’s first prime minister starved Indigenous peoples in the pursuit of nationhood Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of th’s 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.
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Book Title: Clearing the Plains : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Lo
Number of Pages: 386 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Clearing the Plains : Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Subject: Canada / General, Indigenous Studies, United States / General, Native American
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 25.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: James Daschuk
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
