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."
Publisher:Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : U of R Press, [2013]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans -- ch. 2 Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease -- ch. 3 Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740--82 -- ch. 4 Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783--1821 -- ch. 5 Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821--69 -- ch. 6 Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869--76 -- ch. 7 Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877--82 -- ch. 8 Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883--85 -- ch. 9 Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886--91.
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