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

    Written by James Daschuk, Elizabeth A. Fenn and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

    Narrated by J.D. Nicholsen

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    About this audiobook

    Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada.

    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 Indigenous 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 Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day.

    This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2022
    ISBN9780889779136
    Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

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