Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

2014/10/06 by Bradley Hiebert · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Canadian Identity and History #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights

paper · pdf · doi:10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51

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Abstract

At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina specializing historical Indigenous research, Daschuk has published a number of works regarding the health of First Nations peoples of the Canadian Plains. Compiled as part of his doctoral research, Clearing the Plains succinctly consolidates a breadth of ostensibly buried Canadian historical literature to reveal the true nature of Canada's Midwest settlement, while depicting monopolization’s devastating effects on marginalized populations in the process.

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Discussions

• Start with James Daschuk’s "Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life," reviewed by Bradley C. Hiebert in Vol. 1, No, 2 of Canadian Food Studies: doi.org/10 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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