Feature Story: Book Highlights the Politics of Starvation

With Aboriginal History Month just past and Parliamentarians now embracing the task of examining Canadian history, the release of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by professor James Daschuk could not be timelier, as this book chronicles Sir John A...

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Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/4166
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Summary:With Aboriginal History Month just past and Parliamentarians now embracing the task of examining Canadian history, the release of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by professor James Daschuk could not be timelier, as this book chronicles Sir John A. MacDonald’s all-but-forgotten crime against humanity committed against First Nations people. Staff no