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

Personal Author EPSB
James W. Daschuk

Year Published
2013

Series
Canadian Plains studies,

Volume
65

Physical Description
xxii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

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.

Subject
First Nations -- Canada, Western -- History.
 
First Nations -- Diseases -- Canada, Western -- History.
 
First Nations -- Health and hygiene -- Canada, Western -- History.
 
First Nations -- Canada -- Government relations.

Geographic Term
Canada, Western -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History.
 
Canada, Western -- Ethnic relations -- History.

ISBN
9780889772960
 
9780889773400

Publisher
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : U of R Press, [2013]


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