| Edition |
New edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Canadian plains studies ; 65
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Canadian plains studies ; 65.
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| 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
"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, it was named a "Book of the Year" by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers' Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Canada, Western -- History.
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Indians of North America. |
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Western Canada. |
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History. |
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Indians of North America -- Diseases -- Canada, Western -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Diseases. |
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Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene. |
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Native peoples -- Canada -- Government relations. |
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Native peoples -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History. |
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Native peoples -- Diseases -- Canada -- History. |
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Native peoples -- Canada, Western -- History. |
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Native peoples -- Canada -- History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780889776234 (electronic book) |
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0889776237 (electronic book) |
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9780889776227 |
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