Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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 speci...
| Published in: | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English French |
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University of Waterloo
2014
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51 https://doaj.org/article/9a9213b52af3427faa10e61fbc6e5557 |
| Summary: | 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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