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

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Regina Press, 2019.
Edición:New edition.
Colección:Canadian plains studies ; 65.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Canada, Western > History.
Indians of North America > Diseases > Canada, Western > History.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > Canada, Western > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Government relations.
Native peoples > Health and hygiene > Canada, Western > History.
Native peoples > Diseases > Canada > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada, Western > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > History.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Indigenous peoples > Government relations
Indigenous peoples
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Diseases.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene.
Canada
Western Canada.
History.
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
  • 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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