Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life /
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Regina :
University of Regina Press,
©2013.
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Colección: | Canadian plains studies (Online) ;
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.