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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life - James Daschuk (University of Regina Press)

$27.95 CAD

In arresting but harrowing prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, 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.” It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day.

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