Clearing the Plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life (Canadian Plains studies, #65)
Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, disturbingly, 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."… He examines 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. c2013.