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  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    One of MacLean's 25 Most Important Books of the Last 25 YearsOne of CBC's 30 Books On the Indigenous Experience in North AmericaRevealing 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 ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

    by James Daschuk, Ph.D ...
    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 aboriginal 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Clearing the Plains

    Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

    by James Daschuk, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair ...
    Narrated by J.D. Nicholsen ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 17 min

    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beaver, Bison, Horse

    The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains

    by R. Grace Morgan, Cristina Eisenberg ...
    As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of numerous anthropological and scientific surveys.Beaver, Bison, Horse is an interdisciplinary account that centers on Indigenous knowledge and tradition. R. Grace Morgan ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada

    by Mitch Daschuk ...
    How does social regulation shape who is “deviant” and who is “normal”?Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an introduction to the sociology of what has traditionally been called deviance and conformity. This book shifts the focus from individuals labelled deviant to the political and economic processes that shape marginalization, power and exclusion. Class, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015

    by Jane Freeland, Kenneth C. Dewar, Marcie Frank, Barbara Leckie, Mark Salber Phillips, Carolyn Podruchny, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Ian Mosby, Susan Neylan, James Daschuk, Tamara de Szegheo Lang, William John Pratt, Kirk Niergarth ...
    Series Book 26 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The winner of the 2014 Ferguson Prize was Mark Phillips’ On Historical Distance, a work that sets itself the task of examining what historians usually take for granted: historical distance, conventionally conceived, in Phillips’ words, as “a position of detached observation made possible by the passage of time.” Phillips reimagines historical distance as enacted in multiple dimensions of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Children of the Broken Treaty

    Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

    by Charlie Angus ...
    Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.”All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who ... Read more

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  • The Comeback

    How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    Once again, John Ralston Saul presents the story of Canada’s past so that we may better understand its present – and imagine a better future.Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in this impassioned argument, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Aboriginal peoples. This, he says, is the great issue of our time – the most important missing piece in the ... Read more

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  • A Geography of Blood

    Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape

    by Candace Savage ...
    •Finalist, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionWhen Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the dinosaur skeletons at the T.Rex ... Read more

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  • The Politics of War

    Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001–14

    by Jean-Christophe Boucher, Kim Richard Nossal ...
    When the Canadian government committed forces to join the military mission in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, little did it foresee that this decision would involve Canada in a war-riven country for over a decade. The Politics of War explores how, as the mission became increasingly unpopular, Canadian politicians across the political spectrum began to use it to ... Read more

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  • A National Crime

    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

    by John S. Milloy ...
    Series Book 11 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    “I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD