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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version:Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- Clearing the Plains. Regina : University of Regina Press, ©2013. (CaOONL)20139018204 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James W Daschuk |
ISBN: | 9780889772977 0889772975 9780889772465 0889772460 |
OCLC Number: | 840250990 |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
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 -- 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. |
Series Title: | Canadian plains studies (Online), 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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