Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation & the Loss of Aboriginal Life - Daschuk, James
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation & the Loss of Aboriginal Life - Daschuk, James
Clean, tight, unmarked; 1 cm tear with associated creases to upper back inside corner of dust jacket; scratch to back of dj; otherwise very minimal wear; In arresting, but harrowing, prose, 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." 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.
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardcover
University of Regina Press
2013
Regina, SK