num_pages: 340
description: In arresting but harrowing prose James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases climate and most disturbingly Canadian politicsthe politics of ethnocideplayed in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonalds 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.
language: English
title: Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
publisher: University of Regina Press