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Clearing the plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of aboriginal life
Title
Clearing the plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of aboriginal life / James Daschuk.
ISBN
9780889772960
0889772967
Publication
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Variant and related titles
Disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life
Other formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961- Clearing the Plains. Regina : University of Regina Press, c2013. Canadian plains studies (Online) Canadian Plains studies ;
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2014
Series
Canadian plains studies, 65
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-303) 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.
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