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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. " 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 "Required reading for all Canadians." —Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." —J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires
Contents
Bozhoo Indinawemaganidog: An Invitation to All Our Relations by Niigaan James Sinclair
Foreword by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Introduction to the 2019 Edition
Introduction to the 2013 Edition
CHAPTER 1. Indigenous Health, Environment, and Disease before Europeans
CHAPTER 2. The Early Fur Trade: Territorial Dislocation and Disease
CHAPTER 3. Early Competition and the Extension of Trade and Disease, 1740-82
CHAPTER 4. Despair and Death during the Fur Trade Wars, 1783-1821
CHAPTER 5. Expansion of Settlement and Erosion of Health during the HBC Monopoly, 1821-69
CHAPTER 6. Canada, the Northwest, and the Treaty Period, 1869-76
CHAPTER 7. Treaties, Famine, and Epidemic Transition on the Plains, 1877-82
CHAPTER 8. Dominion Administration of Relief, 1883-85
CHAPTER 9. The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886-91
CONCLUSION
Maps
Acknowledgements
Critical Responses
Clearing the Path to Truth: Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, by James Daschuk, and the Narrative of Canadian History by Mary-Ellen Kelm
Clearing the Plains and Changing the National Conversation: James Daschuk's Clearing the Plains as a Work of Popular and Public History by Ian Mosby
Clearing the Plains and Teaching the Dark Side of Canadian History by Susan Neylan
Ethnic Cleansing, Canadian Style by Andrew Woolford
Notes
Bibliography
Index
