Clearing the Plains
Book description
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most 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." It was a dream that came at…
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1 author picked Clearing the Plains as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have long been interested in Native American history (I even wrote my dissertation on it), but for a long time, I had a typically American ignorance of Canadian history.
I had a general sense that Canada had treated their indigenous population “better” than the United States had. This book blows that general sense to smithereens.
Once the Canadian government decided that they wanted white settlers on the plains of Canada, they undertook a deliberate campaign of isolation, starvation, and abrogation of treaty promises to clear those lands of Native people.
It is a depressing story backed up with a…
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