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

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Required reading for all Canadians.” -Candace Savage| author of A Geography of Blood
Named a “Book of the Year” by the “Globe & Mail|” “Quill & Quire|” the Writers’ Trust| and booksellers across Canadan| “Clearing the Plains” reveals how Sir John a.Macdonald used a policy of starvation against Aboriginal people in the pursuit of his “National Dream.”
“”Clearing the Plains” is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples.
Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping| relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day.
The prose is gripping| the analysis is incisive| and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed.
For days after reading it| I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow.
This is fearless| evidence-driven history at its finest.” -Elizabeth a.Fenn| author of “Pox Americana”
“Clearing the Plains” “should make us question what it means to be Canadian.” -“Globe & Mail