Clearing the Plains
Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life
Recommended by Christian W. McMillen, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #3 in Canadian History
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth A. Fenn, 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 less
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Christian W. McMillen The book shows how early capitalist trade and then sequestration on reservations, led to horrific mortality among native populations, due to infectious diseases that came over with European traders and colonizers. (Source)
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