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Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life /
Clearing the Plains shows how Canada's first Prime Minister instituted a policy of starvation to help clear the Plains for railway development, and how those detrimental effects against Aboriginal people continue today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Regina [Sask.] :
University of Regina Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Canadian plains studies ;
65. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
- Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
- Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
- Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883- 85
- The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
- Conclusion.