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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- Clearing the Plains. (CaOONL)20139018204 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James W Daschuk |
ISBN: | 9780889772960 0889772967 9780889773400 0889773408 9780889772977 0889772975 |
OCLC Number: | 840250989 |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
Description: | xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | Canadian plains studies, 65. |
Responsibility: | James Daschuk. |
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Abstract:
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."
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- Indians of North America -- Canada, Western -- History.
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- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations.
- Canada, Western -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History.
- Canada, Western -- Ethnic relations -- History.
- Indians, North American -- history.
- Health Status.
- Canada.
- Disease Outbreaks -- history.
- Communicable Diseases -- history.
- Population Dynamics.
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- Ethnic relations.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America -- Diseases.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations.
- Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene.
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- Ethnische Beziehungen
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- Indianer
- Indianerpolitik
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