Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (CPS)
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (CPS)
About this book
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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- OL Work ID
- OL19645755W
Subjects
Indians of North AmericaHistoryDiseasesHealth and hygieneGovernment relationsColonizationHealth aspectsEthnic relationsIndiens d'AmériqueHistoireMaladiesSanté et hygièneRelations avec l'ÉtatCanada (Ouest)ColonisationAspect sanitaireRelations interethniquesIndians of north america, canada