Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by Daschuk, James
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by Daschuk, James

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

The award-winning book about how Canada's first prime minister starved Indigenous peoples in the pursuit of nationhood...
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Author: James Daschuk
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by Daschuk, James

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

CHF 49.89
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by Daschuk, James

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

CHF 49.89
Author: James Daschuk
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 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.

Author: James Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 03/02/2019
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780889776227

About the Author

James Daschuk is an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina and a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit.


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