Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (CPS)
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: May 13, 2013
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780889772960
Description: 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."