| Description |
1 online resource. |
|
text file |
| Series |
Canadian Plains studies ; 65
|
|
Canadian plains studies (Online) ; 65.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Canada, Western -- History.
|
|
Indians of North America. |
|
Western Canada. |
|
History. |
|
Indians of North America -- Diseases -- Canada, Western -- History.
|
|
Indians of North America -- Diseases. |
|
Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History.
|
|
Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene. |
|
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations -- History.
|
|
Canada. |
|
Canada, Western -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History.
|
|
Canada, Western -- Ethnic relations -- History.
|
|
Colonization. |
|
Canada. |
|
Ethnic relations. |
|
HISTORY -- Canada -- General. |
|
Colonization -- Health aspects. |
|
Indians of North America -- Government relations. |
|
Ethnische Beziehungen. |
|
Gesundheit. |
|
Indianer. |
|
Indianerpolitik. |
|
Kolonisation. |
|
Sozialer Wandel. |
|
Kanada. |
|
Ethnozid. |
|
Krankheit. |
|
Hunger. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version:Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- Clearing the Plains. Regina : University of Regina Press, ©2013. Canadian plains studies (Online) Canadian Plains studies ; (CaOONL)20139018204 |
| ISBN |
9780889772977 (electronic book) |
|
0889772975 (electronic book) |
|
9780889772465 (electronic book) |
|
0889772460 (electronic book) |
|
9780889772960 (print) |
|
0889772967 |
|
9780889773400 |
|
0889773408 |
|
