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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Indigenous life
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2019
Book
Creators
Daschuk, James W.
Contributors
Fenn, Elizabeth
Description
"This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the book'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."--Provided by publisher.

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9780889776227; 0889776229; 9780889776210; 0889776210
Statement of Responsibility
James Daschuk ; [foreword by Elizabeth A. Fenn].
Publication Information
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press
Physical Description
xxxvi, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes
Issued also in electronic format.
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 -- 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.
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